So here we are this week with the second and final post involving Thunderbolt and his sidekicks, as we present the final four members of the Slayers. These are the nominally more important ones, insofar as when the team got adapted for the Marvel Mania storyboard in college, they’re the four who didn’t get killed off pretty quickly; in fact, one of them eventually switched sides and joined the good guys. Read on to find out who!
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The Early Years: The Slayers, Part 1 ― Mmm, Fruit Chews
So as previously threatened promised, this week, I reached into the pile of old papers from my younger days and pulled out the Villains & Vigilantes character sheets for The Slayers. There are a lot of them (seven in all), so I decided to split them across two weeks*, starting this week with Starburst** (a flying energy projector and the leader of the group at first), Throttle (the speedster), and Monstrus (the brick).
The Early Years: You’ll Be Hearing From Magneto’s Attorneys
So this week I decided to dip into my big pile of old papers that aren’t rejection letters, and as it happens, I’m still in the section that’s full of old Villains & Vigilantes NPC character sheets, and there at the top was a fellow will be familiar to anyone who used to participate in those games I ran, or who was writing on “Marvel Mania” at college back in the day: Magneto! Thunderbolt!
The Early Years: Can We Lift It? Probably Not!
So this week I decided to take a break from being curmudgeonly about AI to sift through the giant stack of my old papers that my folks sent me a while back; but this time, near the top of the pile, I found something that wasn’t an old bad drawing or me asking rude questions. Instead, it was a mysterious list of weights.
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