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A stabbing motion isn't as dynamic as a slashing one. The artist would lose a lot of the energy that can be found in comics that feature epic sword battles.

Which doesn't explain movies and TV, nor why blades tend to slash right through limbs with scalpel clean cuts. That just doesn't happen; even if the blade was sharp enough bone is flexible and crystaline enough that about the point you hit it your cut will start to become a tear as you force your way through the bone. Even 'clean' one shot beheadings with swords made expressly for that purpose, with a stout man and gravity to help, will leave shattered and jagged remnants of the spinal cord and often break the collar bone just from transmitted force. And the neck does not slice off cleanly in one smooth line. The human body is not made of clay.

I was kind of thinking the same thing when I saw the trailer for DC Universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lGTfK4PmPw

I mean, come on, the residents of that part of town must be piiisssed.

I'd be more concerned about the fact that 50% of the citizens would suffer casualties than the property damage.
That game pissed me off. If I can't play a Kryptonian or a Daxamite, DC can suck it.

I doubt you could do this in a large shared fictional universe like the MU or DCU.

You could, but it would essentially turn into super-psionic science fiction. Which is pretty much what Marvel is, the anomalous bits are the normal human beings.

Well you could do it but it'd destroy everything. It'd be interesting to see but note the Wildstorm Universe has just got binned because they decided to do place their superheroes in a post-apocalyptic setting and ran the line into the ground. It'd never happen unless the setting was relatively self-contained.

I don't think it would necessarily be anything post-apocalyptic; except in the literal sense. I don't think they'd destroy the world so much as make it unrecognizable. I think, in the long run, normals would be more likely to be ignored than threatened. They would simply become irrelevant.

I doubt you could do this in a large shared fictional universe like the MU or DCU.

You could, but it would essentially turn into super-psionic science fiction. Which is pretty much what Marvel is, the anomalous bits are the normal human beings.

I enjoyed Neil Gaiman's run.

My experience with Brit authors tends to be that they're fine when they don't take themselves seriously, but as soon as they do it rapidly becomes unreadable (for me at least). I love Moore's work on Supreme, Miracle Man and Tom Strong but both V for Vendetta and the Watchmen bored and philosophically repelled me in various bits (it didn't help that I despised the art). Neil Gaiman, to me, is constantly taking himself seriously.

Why do we never, ever see realistic portrayals of edged weapons? Slicing through people is extremely difficult, even if you did it it wouldn't be a clean piano-wire slash through the body. Most attacks with edged weapons create jagged, irregular cuts or stabs a few inches deep (stabs are generally considered more effective than slashing by knife and dagger fighters of history). A couple of arteries aside, even chopping someone's hand off will not cause blood to gush forth in a torrent.

Even most swords were used to stab, including long swords with fine double edges. Slashing was an option, but most organs are located inside the body, and contrary to fiction it is not plausible to slice someone in half just to get at their internal organs. Poking them is much easier.

Whether movie choreography, anime, comic books or TV the portrayal of edged weapon use and wounds is downright ridiculous; not only wrong but obviously done by people who have never seen a knife fight or looked at a middle ages Black Prince manual. I can not think of any where swords or knives were portrayed to operate in a realistic manner except for a couple of crappy Lifetime movies where some woman goes crazy and stabs her husband.

Wasn't this what Miracleman was about?

Yes, and it was good. And then Neil Gaiman wrote his weird crap and I stopped reading it.

Personally I would love to see these issues talked about in Marvel and DC books, But I don't think the big two have the BALLZ to do this seriously.

You're right, I mean, they still have superheroes enforcing the War on Drugs unquestioningly and pretty much anyone who says, "screw the government" is a villain by default.

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I wonder why nobody's done a comic book series where the obvious happens, and normal humans and existing governments become politically irrelevant.

Aristocracy
Aberrant played with it, and the Authority has the Justice League effectively becoming the government, but most comics just seem to duplicate modern political structures, without considering that invincible people don't follow orders and supergeniuses don't take to silly things like laws.
Dr. Doom alone would basically implode the world governments in a few years.
Not to mention gods and aliens and wizards and supertechnology.

Money for Nothing
Superhumans would also become massive elements of the economy, as they can produce and do things that basically no one can replicate. Like most real people, the majority would probably use their powers to gain money and status.

Get the Muties!
It's absurd how normal humans could still be a threat to superhuman populations.
They'd easily be cowed into submission, not only by concerted action but by simple human nature. Throwing rocks at a hunchback is one thing, but if hunchbacks had a tendency to set people on fire with their minds, you'd find a lot less stone-slinging going on.

I really think this would at least be an interesting change of pace from the Marvel/DCVerse where police still use revolvers and the government has the hubris to make laws governing people who could single-handedly destroy every last politician, soldier and policemen while incurring virtually zero risk of injury.

@RJMooreII: Do you have any of the other chunkies? I'd go for Nemesis #1 before Rogue, frankly. More zany, better art and a better story. (Sorry, Rogue fans!)

I've seen Nemesis and Rogue Trooper in some of the Progs I've got, and Rogue Trooper seemed more my style. Magical-type stuff never really does the trick for me (although I really enjoyed the Elric stories by Moorcock).

Well, I've got nearly a complete collection of Strontium Dog books and I'm slowly whittling into Dredd. Now for a character I've never read before: Who's this Rogue Trooper, why should I read it and what are some of the best arcs to begin with?

That pretty much sounds like what I was expecting. Going for a more realistic look makes perfect sense to me - I only hope that they keep one or two of the weirder design elements in some form or other - I wouldn't want the uniform to look too generic!

Like I said earlier, Judge Dredd without some crazy colorful outfit elements is just going to look like a generic space marine or a Nazi. I don't really much care about design-realism, especially given it's based on a comic book. It's one thing not to copy the obviously stylized art elements, but if it just ends up looking like something out of Rainbow Six I'm going to hate them just like I hated the hacks that made the so-called "X-Men" movies, with their made-for-tv generic black outfits.

An I had better not see a single HK G36 in the movie.

They did ok with the Bat-pod in the Dark Knight though. Tires like that would be fine.

I hated every design decision in the Dark Knight. I still liked the movie, I just thought they basically botched everything aesthetically.

The film-makers don't want to give the audience reason to un-suspend their disbelief in a brutal future with (arguably!) impractical or over-designed elements.

More departures from the canon stories? Are we ever going to see a Judge Dredd movie where he has to fight both sides of the MacDonalds/Burger King hamburger wars and the Jolly Green Giant? 

I trust the costume designers to get this one right. I think will look at the cod piece debarcle and just get it right.

Really what made Stallone's codpiece and shoulder ornaments look so weird was that they were 1) too bright and 2) the rest of the outfit was pretty lightweight/thin. There just wasn't enough bulk on the rest of the suit, so the metal stuff looked really uneven and sort of tacked on.

It pays to say what you mean, yellow ain't exactly gold and Dredd did have yellow elbow and shoulder pads as Bolland coloured them.



You could also have the pads as a dark-tan, flexible, matte material with a gold/silver Eagle head piece.

Man, if you have to suffer police brutality, why can't it be at the hands of nutjobs in brightly colored outfits with fixed-visor helmets? At least you could bite the curb laughing.

But, yes, that's one of my fav. Bolland pieces. But, like I said, I figured it was just 4-color stand-in for bronze-gold metal.

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and Dredd would look like big bird. No prop uniforms that have been made -even in Minty- ever had yellow shoulder pads. They'd look like marigolds on his shoulders. It would also be like wearing hi-viz at night.

Well, I always figured it was just bronze-gold metal. Not bright yellow.