26th of April, 2010

There’s a surprising amount of material in this one, actually :

• V2s. As follows:
  • The Killer Moth (Pre-Crisis) entry has been replaced by a much more specific and extensive entry for the Earth-2 Killer Moth, with twice as many illustrations. So it’s much better now. But what about the Earth-1 Killer Moth, you say ? Stay tuned – same bat-site, same bat-page !
  • Rock Howard was revised by the author to improve stuff. Now even Rock’s bass guitar gets stats !
• Batboy, a player character from one of Ethan’s old campaigns.
• ART. As follows:
  • Blue Mary Ryan received some extra art to go with the recently revised text.
  • The shot of Firefly (1959) has been cleaned up with the ancient printing smudges corrected.
  • Dragoncat got a few extra illustrations – such is the way of the ninja
  • A few stock banners have been added to our Nick Fury notes, since the illo column was much longer than the text
• ART BORROWED FROM RAPSHEET.CO.UK. A few cool, detoured-just-like-we-do bits for:
  • Jonas Harrow
  • Mysterio
  • Vulcan
  • Mandarin (Early)
• Alicia DeVries, the heroine of Fury Reborn, one of Weber’s mil sci-fi books, by Mike.
• Remember Roy’s big Werewolf by Night entry ? Well here comes the second writeup – after the Early era, the Classic era. To see this profile continue is so cool that we’re over the moon.
• We haven’t really published Authority material in, oh, a dozen years. But Peter found our misplaced key of the Carrier’s door, so here a Jack Hawksmoor entry ! Which I guess is the most important comic book character in this batch. Technically it’s a v2, but the set of notes it replaces was very old and minimalist.
• STREET FIGHTERS. Two more Street Fighters by Tom :
  • Dee Jay, the fighter/pop star with a grin
  • Rose, the Italian mystic and fighter
• Flamingo, a recent Morrison character from Batman and Robin. This trepanned, monstrously insane hitman is a nightmare.
• INVINCIBLE. More Kirkman material from Bryan – in this batch, Young Omni-Man.
• STUFF GETS CLEARER. More entries got corrections to make the texts clearer :
  • Minor improvements for:
    • Carapax
    • Doctor Midnight II
    • Machete I
    • Captain A. Goncharova
    • Mist II
    • Agent Lathrop
    • Firefly (1959)
    • Dragoncat
    • The Giant One
    • The Invincible Red Robot
    • Rattler
    • Nick Fury
    • The Black Star Ninja
    • Ebeneezer Badde
    • Blind Faith
    • The Dykkors
    • Flood
    • Gattling
    • Iron Curtain
    • Bobcat
    • Catseye
    • Double Edge
    • The Flying Tiger
    • Megalith
    • Thrill Devil
  • Nearly complete rewrite of the Mister Handsome II texts, which were atrociously written
  • Roy added a few titbits to his Werewolf by Night (Early) entry
  • Refreshed layout and fixed Initiative scores for the Generic Vampires entry covering the Blade movies
  • The entry for Bullet was good but with some poorly-structured parts – those are now fixed and it reads much better
  • Three waves of extensive edits to both Fury II (Hippolyta Hall) entries. Those are long, involved entries with complicated stories, so I improved the writing as much as possible for the readers’s sake. And survived the ordeal too ! Entry 1, entry 2.
• BLACK SUMMER. Gareth continues reviewing the Seven Guns – in this batch, Tom Noir.

Work, re-work and re-re-rework… ain’t no other way to keep bringing a better calibre of stats, texts and pictures among our 4344 entries.