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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    09/03/09

    In reply to Fighting Crime with Lime Juice and Marbles
    needs baseball bats and hockey sticks. Add to taste, then serve.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/03/09

    In reply to Fighting Crime with Lime Juice and Marbles
    R.O.A.C.H. Assemble!!!
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    Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    09/03/09

    @Grey_Area: Okay, I give, what the hell does R.O.A.C.H. stand for?
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    09/03/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: Okay, I give, what the hell does R.O.A.C.H. stand for?
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    09/03/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: Why the hell are my posts not showing up? o_0
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment ZaxxonQ.com was starred ZaxxonQ.com was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/03/09

    @ZaxxonQ.com: Because you hadn't been approved as a commentor yet. R.O.A.C.H. stands for

    Ruthless
    Organization
    Against
    Costumed
    Heroes

    [www.joinroach.com]
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    Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    09/04/09

    @Grey_Area:

    Okay, now what does LARM mean? I've tried google, gotten some interesting choices (Latin American Relocation Management, League Association of Risk Management) but somehow I don't think those are right.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    09/04/09

    @Wookie1972:
    Oh, and p.s. I'm assuming you guys have all read the Boys, a more, um serious take on the same idea.
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    Wookie1972 was starred Wookie1972 was unstarred
    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    09/02/09

    In reply to Fighting Crime with Lime Juice and Marbles
    I was hoping it was a movie about Defender, the video game.
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    Wookie1972 was starred Wookie1972 was unstarred
    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    08/24/09

    In reply to Reality TV Host Boosted Ratings By Murdering People
    See I told you reality TV was EVIL!
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    it must be bunnies was starred it must be bunnies was unstarred
    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/24/09

    In reply to Reality TV Host Boosted Ratings By Murdering People
    what about the infamous 70's sleazemeiser the snuff movie ?
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    Image of HerrIssyvoo HerrIssyvoo
    08/24/09

    In reply to Reality TV Host Boosted Ratings By Murdering People
    Reminds me of the parts of Ian McDonald's Brasyl that take place in the sort of contemporary realish world.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment HerrIssyvoo was starred HerrIssyvoo was unstarred
    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    08/24/09

    In reply to Reality TV Host Boosted Ratings By Murdering People
    I can remember an episode of Max Headroom with this plot
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    08/24/09

    @se7a7n7: And couldn't you say that Peter Parker has been guilty of doing this for his entire career?
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    08/24/09

    @se7a7n7: This reminded me of the 007 movie "Tomorrow Never Dies" where the villain is a Murdoch-like media mogul who tries to start a war between Britain and China to boost ratings and circulation of his broadcast and print outlets.
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    Edited by omgwtflolbbqbye at 08/24/09 4:03 PM omgwtflolbbqbye was starred omgwtflolbbqbye was unstarred
    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    08/24/09

    @se7a7n7: Also unless Spider-Man was paying muggers to knock over convenience stores and bankrolling the Secret Six, his case his case was not similar to this at all.
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    Image of Mighty Bomb Jack Mighty Bomb Jack
    08/24/09

    In reply to Reality TV Host Boosted Ratings By Murdering People
    Urban Legends: Final Cut is kinda like this, with Eva Mendes playing the smokin' body.
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment Mighty Bomb Jack was starred Mighty Bomb Jack was unstarred
    Image of Scott Van Vechten Scott Van Vechten
    08/24/09

    In reply to Reality TV Host Boosted Ratings By Murdering People
    Anyone here ever read Dead Famous, by Ben Elton? It's the first thing I thought of.
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment Scott Van Vechten was starred Scott Van Vechten was unstarred
    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    08/24/09

    @Scott Van Vechten: I haven't read that one yet but I have read Chart Throb which exposes reality shows like American Idol etc. I will have to pick it up.

    Ben Elton was a recent guest on the CBC show The Hour. Excellent interview and very well spoken man.
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    Image of Dash_Stryker Dash_Stryker
    08/24/09

    In reply to Reality TV Host Boosted Ratings By Murdering People
    I hate when life reflects art.
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    Image of AEchinoderm AEchinoderm
    07/31/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    My Italian grandma would get a kick out of a book titled "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" with an octopus on the cover.
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment AEchinoderm was starred AEchinoderm was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/31/09

    @AEchinoderm: I know! In Spanish it's Pulpo, so even closer.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    Go out and find "monstrous" it`s a horror collection, make sure you read about the 65 foot Vampire !!!
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    disatess was starred disatess was unstarred
    Image of gorehound gorehound
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    Iown around 150 - 200 pulps inmy archives.
    you can see some of these here in my personal pulp gallery
    http://www.bigmeathammer.com/gallery.htm
     Reply
    gorehound was starred gorehound was unstarred
    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    The moment I read the title I though of Futurama's "Anthologies of Interest!!!"
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    Image of SnehalMarten SnehalMarten
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    I don't see why Fu Manchu couldn't be reworked into something cool. Warren Ellis did it with "Hark" in Planetary.

    Although, I would keep the broken English. It's a rare individual who can speak several languages fluently and without an accent.
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment SnehalMarten was starred SnehalMarten was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/30/09

    @SnehalMarten: Bad of me to overlook the cool stuff Ellis and Alan Moore have done lately with old pulp tropes. I'd like to read a longer story (dare I say, a non-graphic novel) with a Yellow Peril-type villian in the lead. Deeply bitter over the Opium Wars and Unequal Treaties, he forms a secret army to crush the West. He'd be like Govenor-General Lin Zexu but with less compunction against killing and more about the super-science.

    Having an accent doesn't mean broken English. My grandfather spoke fluent English in a beautiful blend of aristocratic Shanghai and 1920s' London, the old boy was educated in that Green and Pleasant Land for economics.

    He had no links to the Si Fan as far as I know...
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area: You should write a story in which he did! Sounds like an awesome guy who easily could have been a Big Boss had he turned to Evil.
     Reply
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
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