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Guardian7:
Well... I was going to remain faithful to the name TNT Todd... though it certainly isn't high on my list of favorite names (But oddly enough it was growing on me). I may just denote him to TNT (Even though there is a one shot hero by that same name - I can't actually see them getting all worked up over a name - Particularly those two characters). I thought about going with Agent TNT (which has a nice ring to it). Since he does work for the Government and is in fact a G-Man (Ace at that!)... so he is an Agent. At least that way I could step away from the Todd Moniker portion of his name.

I actually just downloaded KDF 19 tonight... which is cool... TNT Todd Ace G-Man (before he gained powers) has a group of foes called the 1001. Didn't Booster Gold have a bunch of bad guys by the same name?

Plus that issue also gave me another Eye story to soak in.

I also downloaded FunnyPictureStories v2 9... That Jack Strand character has some wonky adventures. That man is as bad as Reef Kinkaid for being and going places.

The oddest thing about the CENTAUR UNIVERSE is that they have (some) unusual places that if you combined them (the stories) into a coherent universe... That there is a KNOWN underwater Kingdom (at least by the goverment - From the Jack Strand story) and a known Amazon Island (From the Lucky Lee story in Liberty Scouts 2) that is populated by Amazon looking women... and a port town? Okay... different... but I plan to run with all of it. Just have to find a useful story for them.
The underwater Kingdom is way cool because of the Shark, Neptune, Possibly Craig Carter and last but not least Frogga (From Barry Flynn).
The Amazons are likely story fodder for the exact same characters with the exception of Frogga and you might be able to throw Man of War on that list (since he is attached to Mars or Hades).

Then of course there is the UBER-COOL city of Atlantia (From Reef Kinkaid - a character that is just the total adventurer)... and its obvious attachments to the legend of Atlantis.

Jay Douglas' Dinosaur Forest (The Island near South America + I LOVE DINOSAURS and drawing them!) and of course Challenger plateau.

The cool as heck Inner Earth scenario of Chuck Hardy (which in my eyes could be made even better than Mike Grell's Warlord).

From the unusual valley that was home to Mighty Man to the ruins of Speed Centaur's race... there is a LOT to play with... not including the most important one... The Tibetan Monestary of the Council of Seven, The Home of Aman and the location of the eventual City of the Green Mists.

I am sure I am forgetting things... but that is just the surface stuff... there is all kinds of stuff just begging to be played with.

In my eyes Malibu's Protectors dropped the ball... Altered the characters so much as to make them unrecognizable. The stories were decent enough... but certainly not as strong as they could have been and they truly failed to grab the reader from the get go. But I have to give that series some credit. They reinvested my interest in that obscure comics group again.

Anyhow... I have blithered on long enough...

cya
G7

I am lucky... I am near Michigan State College. I can get access to Centaur Comics that are not available here.   

bchat:

--- Quote from: Guardian7 on September 18, 2010, 05:48:13 AM ---Well... I was going to remain faithful to the name TNT Todd... though it certainly isn't high on my list of favorite names (But oddly enough it was growing on me). I may just denote him to TNT (Even though there is a one shot hero by that same name - I can't actually see them getting all worked up over a name - Particularly those two characters). I thought about going with Agent TNT (which has a nice ring to it). Since he does work for the Government and is in fact a G-Man (Ace at that!)... so he is an Agent. At least that way I could step away from the Todd Moniker portion of his name.

I actually just downloaded KDF 19 tonight... which is cool... TNT Todd Ace G-Man (before he gained powers) has a group of foes called the 1001. Didn't Booster Gold have a bunch of bad guys by the same name?
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"Agent TNT" sounds good.  I don't know about "Booster Gold" since I don't read that book.  That character works better for me within a group, and I haven't purchased a DC title in a year or two now.


--- Quote ---In my eyes Malibu's Protectors dropped the ball... Altered the characters so much as to make them unrecognizable. The stories were decent enough... but certainly not as strong as they could have been and they truly failed to grab the reader from the get go. But I have to give that series some credit. They reinvested my interest in that obscure comics group again.
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My Opinion: I liked what Malibu did with the characters and the entire line has remained one of my favorites to this day.  In fact, I just finished-off my collection of their books a few years ago.  Somehow, I missed the Handbook when it first came-out, and I never picked-up the issues of Ex-Mutants after the "big crossover" (which the creators were against, by the way).  Those books are also a big reason I'm a fan of the "Centaur" characters, since they were my introduction to them.

Yeah, the characters are different than they originally appeared, but that's Malibu wanted to do with them and it worked for a little while ... and perhaps longer than that if a certain group of creators didn't complain so loudly to management about "competing superhero lines".


--- Quote ---I am lucky... I am near Michigan State College. I can get access to Centaur Comics that are not available here.   

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Any chance you could get images of some sort of those "missing books"?  Even a bad image is better than none.

Not sure if you noticed but the Collectors Society forum has a thread here showing images (photos, not scans) from Amazing-Man Comics 26, including another Amazing-Man story and the 2nd (and last) Meteor Martin story (to have been continued in the "next issue" of Star & Stripes ... which never happened). 

JVJ (RIP):

--- Quote from: bchat on September 17, 2010, 10:42:26 PM ---Just wondering:  Are you keeping "TNT Todd" as his name?  I think he's a potentially great character but having "Todd" as part of his "superhero name" always seemed kind of silly to me.  Kind of like if Captain America was actually called "Captain Steve" or Superman was called "Super Clark".

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Hey, bchat, Just consider "Todd" as his LAST name and it might sit a little better with you

Peace, Jim (|:{>

JonTheScanner:
MLJ did have a Bob Phantom in the day.

Guardian7:
Okay. Well I am going to take the subject matter of Centaur Comics out front. No need hogging all of this on my own front... but if anyone is interested I will still spotlight artwork here... either design stuff or maybe coming attractions.

The Biggest thing for me to do is to get the First Issue done.

Irregardless of anything... #1s should be special... and that is what I want it to be (So I am trying to weed out the weaker stories and put the ones that will hopefully turn heads without twisting them off! LOL).

Cya out front...

That Amazing Man issue certainly has peeked my interest... See ya out front.

G7

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