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Kurt Busiek@kurtbusiek.bsky.social |
...good at hockey. They're inspirational heroes, but many of them are also heroes who can do what "we" do really well, for various values of "we." That gives them a sense of "superhero" that's not the same as ours, and that makes it a distinctive thing that I think should matter to the book.
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Cassandra Miller
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Ok, this makes a lot more sense. I see where you’re coming from now.
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Possum Lover
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That makes them seem like mythological heroes, interestingly.
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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎
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The flipside is that to everyone else they're exotic and cool exotic. The Reboot Era had Shvaughn Erin's logs at the end, with her writing about the members. The last one had her musing about their "unique power" rule, and how it made it easy to identify with. "I am the one who can [blank]".
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