Move over, Blue Oyster Cult! It's cartoon time! Merrie Medley Cult Secwet Tweeties Career of Evil__Wile E. Coyote Subhuman__ Tweetie Bird Dominance Submission___Porky Pig ME-262 __Daffy Duck "Ah, say, ah say what ya got there, dummy? A worm?" side two Cagey Cretins__Foghorn Leghorn Harvester of Eyes___Elmer Fudd Flamin' Telepaths___Bugs Bunny Astronomy_____Marvin the Martian So that's our take on the classic BOC album...my sister recommended Godzilla sing "Godzilla" too, which led to a hearty gale of laughs... I've been listening to a lot of terrific old rock songs as I ponder hooks, riffs, and melodic runs for our new music. Last night I opened up my favorite Blue Oyster Cult album again while drawing...funny thoughts come to you at 3 am, let me tell ya...

Here's a rough synopsis with notes for the Braband/ Disharoon concept of Mystic Order Of Defenders. Yesterday's post introduces Devil-Slayer's powers and mission, depicting the gangs, receiving deadly guns from an ATF U.S. official on a stormy Mexican night. The cold open continues the narrative with Devil-Slayer. He’s teleporting in and senses he is not the only stalker of these hallways (soon identified as a sanitarium). He throws on a white doctor's coat, and makes a phone call to the police concerning a tip he got through his volunteer clinic, and suggests the location where he has just fought the gun-smugglers. Possibly, we also introduce Vera Gemini’s twin, Marie, a recovering patient. Joe has the notion of a sighting causing Eric Simon Payne to doubt who he has under lock and key at his sanitarium, after all, that is, which twin, and we’ll ponder this for the next draft. An attack meant to terrorize the patients of Payne’s medical facility in the night cou...

Action cold opening, first. Here we introduce: Devil Slayer, the gangs, and their terrible secret. With this scenario, we telescope all elements necessary to connect the audience with this brand new, unknown character. So: Tijuana, B.C. two poor boys, dark hair, eyes, skin, one a head taller than the other, play soccer in a muddy lot outside in moonlight beside warehouse. The smaller boy turns his back to kick the ball up on his heel, then tries a bicycle kick pass. The kick sends the ball over the other boy’s head, but the bicycle-kicking boy vanishes, for no reason we can see; his playmate chases the ball, and dribbles it back towards where his friend should be---where is he? A man appears, spreads his cape in the silhouette, and the boy hears “don’t be afraid” in his head. He sees a grim pair of brown eyes, the cloak folds over them both, whipping with a life of its own, and the boy suddenly appears four blocks away, beside his startled friend. They watch in wonder as a man ...

So, Joe responded to my last post. Watch as the Mystic Order Of Defenders is revealed!!! (We've been plotting our own return of the Defenders for Marvel; you can follow along in previous entries here at this blog, which also flesh out who everyone listed is) My take on things - 1) Nighthawk's intentions in reforming the team I think nostalgia would be one of the driving forces. The Defenders were his friends and Kyle was arguably the heart of the team. As for not just turning over any information on the Six-Fingered Hand right over to the Avengers and letting them handle it - I think there might be a bit of pride going on there. Iron Man refused his offer to reform the Defenders once and put him together with a decidedly non-Defenders team in "the Last Defenders". I think out of anyone, Kyle would be one to reflect on the "non-Team" and realize that these people weren't just a loose group of super-heroes - they were his friends and it is time for...

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On my sister blog Be chill, Cease ill, I've already begun spinning my own inspiration out of this brainstorm. This morning I came back to my game with Joe, as presented in several posts prior to this. We have a Demon Secret War; we have on one side Vera Gemini, half-demon priestess of the Cult of the Harvester of Eyes and mistress of the Agents of Fortune, and on the other, the Six Fingered Hand, a gathering of lesser demons who energize human pawns (Joe's idea: de-powered mutants!). In the midst of it all, we re-assemble Marvel's Non-Team, that patchwork, shifting collection of friends, acquaintances, and fellow adventurers who form when Earth's in dire need: The Dynamic Defenders. I've said before Joe gave us a credible reason we have this alternative Defenders team, based out of Hulk's anger at the events in World War Hulk by Marvel five years ago. Let's dig 1) Nighthawk's intentions in reforming the team a) As millionaire Kyle Richmond, Night...