Introducing the New 'New Warriors' - The classic team reunites to mentor a new generation of heroes!

Commander X said:
Writer Daniel Kibblesmith is an alum of Colbert's TV show which probably explain why if this is all an attempt at humor it is a humor null. Plus he's awfully proud of having written a children's book entitled "Santa's Boyfriend", no guesses as to what it's about.
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Was Santa's gift that year aids?

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Protagonists are only half of the story. I honestly can't see which villains they are supposed to defeat. The lack of creativity is staggering, and there's no reason to even discuss this in proper manner, so bad it is.
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They're either going to fight a stereotype like themselves made for the series or get the Squirrel Girl treatment and thrash someone like Thanos or Galactus with "wacky antics"
 
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Well guys because being obese and black wasn't worth enough oppression points she's also a lesbian

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Oh yeah
 
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86
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86 is Honesty (meaning obeying the law, truthfulness is telling the truth).

So we have a talented artist tasked with taking care of another person, a shadow person that can compel others to obey the law/turn themselves in when they break the law, a person who can simply wish to have a power and he has it but he has trouble choosing, and a person who never gets a hangover and has an uncontrollable appetite for the life-force of other people.

Less coherent than the New Warriors, but also less insultingly bad. This proves to me that RNG+GURPS can make a better superhero team than Marvel at this point.
 
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
What if the artist is so talented their paintings come to life. (yes yes One Piece did it but I didn't pick the numbers)
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Gifted Artist in GURPS terms gives bonuses when using certain skills (artist, jeweler, leather working, photography, etc.), but if I was building these out into an actual superhero team then that would be a good option to put him on equal footing with the rest of the team. In-fact he could have accidentally trapped his dependent in a painting while he was learning his powers and he's searching for a way to free him or her. In a Mr. Freeze sort of way, but less evil.
To actually build it out in GURPS we would go with Modular Abilities, Super-Memorization (to represent how it's a mental activity). As per GURPS Powers, it could be used to gain social advantages (and only social advantages) [+0%]. This would be further limited to a subset of a medium-sized class of advantages (Allies/Contacts) [-40%], further limited with Preparation Required (10 minutes) [-30%] to represent the time taken to create the paintings, Trigger to represent the fact that he must have art supplies (Very Common trigger) [-10%], and Requires (Artist) Roll [-10%]. This can be enhanced with Affects Others to represent how allies or contacts can be painted for other people [+50%]. All together this reduces the cost by -40%. Each "Slot" in Modular Abilities represents an additional Ally or Contact that the hero can have out at once. Spending 50 points on a single slot would mean an 40 point ally. This could be a completely reliable ally that is 100% the power of the player and can be summoned.
Actually playing a game with this would be need some finagling and could quickly get out of hand. The player would need to be OK with simplified character creation for their allies or select them from a pre-existing list. Otherwise any given session would grind to a halt as a new character is created. Also a lot of GM oversight would be required, but that's just GURPS.
 
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I've never been more depressed about everything that. I am now...Marvel and Hollywood will never learn stupid people in powerful positions making the same asanine mistakes of pandering to sjws again and again and again.

to quote crisis on infinite earths....world's will live worlds will die and nothing will ever be the same again.
 
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The Internet Is Having a Mixed Reaction to New Warriors Characters Snowflake and Safespace

'New Warriors' is introducing two new characters Snowflake and Safespace, whose names and designs are getting a lot of negative feedback from comic fans.
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Creating new characters in comics is hard, especially when you are trying to add diversity to the medium. There is a segment of the population that will always have some sort of hateration about “forced diversity.” However, that doesn’t mean there can’t be constructive feedback when it comes to how new marginalized characters are designed. When it comes Snowflake and Safespace, which are the names of two heroes for the upcoming New Warriors comic series, there is a lot to unpack there.

The characters were designed by Luciano Vecchio and created by Daniel Kibblesmith, a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Kibblesmith is behind Loki, Black Panther Vs. Deadpool, and the children’s book Santa’s Husband. He is, by all accounts, an ally and someone who has created really thoughtful LGBTQ content. However, this was just a really poor choice. When first saw the tweet from a friend of mine, which shared that Snowflake is non-binary, I truly thought this was gonna be akin to a Frank Miller “take that libs” comic.

Within the demographic of nonbinary comic fans, it does not to be hitting the mark because of the names and the implications of the color choices given to them.

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Luciano Vecchio is a queer man, and as I said before, Kibblesmith has a history of being an ally, but that doesn’t automatically mean you have the full range of language to create every kind of character. If people within the community are saying that this feels off and insulting in good faith, then I think that should be listened to. I’m not enby (a nonbinary person), but just by naming a Black nonbinary character Snowflake and partnering them up with a Black male character named Safespace … sounds weird. There should have just been more people taking a look at this within that community.

You can’t please everyone and not every criticism is valid, but I have yet to see a lot of responses from within the enby community that are in praise of these choices. Representation matters, but it needs to be a lot more thought put into it than this. Even the idea of reclaiming these terms is something that feels very three years ago. Plus, reclaiming has to come from within the community, not from the minds of two cis white male creators.


Again, I say this with respect to the creators of these characters because I’m sure they were done with love and with the intent to be inclusive. It does matter to have Black enby characters in comics, to have fat indigenous women, and other marginalized characters, so they can know they have a space in this industry. However, it doesn’t mean that mistakes don’t get made. I do feel like these names are an error that will be held against this comic despite the good intentions that are clearly built into it.

What do you guys think, and if you are nonbinary, what do you think of the design and names?
 
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