Response to In-Class Proposals, Week Two

Again, I'm terrible about names.  Apologies, all.

The Three Eras of the Flash

• Mercury imagery
  
• JSA - a group of comic characters who know that they're cartoon characters.  You have to resign your post and become an honorary member when you get your own comic book?  What a mindfuck.
• Jay/Barry/Wally - there's something about the generational aspect of these characters that I've always loved.
• The death of Barry Allen - what did that mean for the character?  For the Silver Age?
• Wally takes over - this is part of the generational thing.
• What about Wally's intermittent problems with his powers?  Freudian issues about replacing his father?
• And what about his father?  Wally was one of the only sidekicks who actually had a family, and the hero wasn't part of it.  Wally had a mother and a father who were unaware of his extracurricular activities.

Maya - Sailor Moon

• Blunders
• Supernatural Aid - cat
• Supernatural Aid - Tuxedo Mask
• The Belly of the Whale
• Sailor Moon's really hitting all the high points.
• What's with the Sailor motif?  Does it have any specific meaning?
• Wait - Sailor Mars?  There are more Sailors?
• I never knew what Sailor Moon was, though I had seen the imagery around.   I'm afraid that I'm more confused than ever, although it seems as though you've really tied the series in to the monomyth.
• The superheroes are attractive to humans because humans can have characteristics they can never have.
• "So whaddya say - do you want to give up this life of evil?"  Brilliant.

Theresa - create your own line of superheroes/fashion line

• Luxtro - half human/half robot  
• Skeleton with armor plating - pretty interesting.  Not sure about the green and purple shoes from a design perspective, if that's the only color in her costume.
• Annexo - medusa character, hair of spines.  Wow.  That's a great design.  The spinal column hairdo is extremely creepy.
• Mediator as villain?  Interesting.  She has the most compelling story so far.  Don't think the ribs work as well as the spines, but the theme is working.

Chevek- Hellboy

• Hellboy is a faux-mythological demon, son of a minor demon and dead human witch who gives birth to him in Hell.
• Actual name means "the great beast" or "the destroyer"
• brought to the world by Rasputin
• Stone hand - what's the symbolism?
• Rasputin AND Nazis?  Very cool - nothin' like collecting all the world's evil in one place.
• Edison v. Tesla - how they presented to the world is as important as what they created.

Jared - 

• The Game (?)
• Watch video - this is some pretty fucked-up stuff.  Fight Club for picking up girls in bars? 
• Where's the connection to Campbell?  I'm not really seeing it.
• Kathleen asks if this is some sort of manual for becoming your own hero - could be, but I'm still not seeing it.

Captain America Performance Poems

• Outstanding.  I'd love to see where you're going with this.
• Nightcrawler is a good choice.
• Ghost Rider could be very interesting, as well.  Might be too much crossover with Nightcrawler, I'd consider looking for another archetype.
• The Joker?  Watch out for that one - there's a whole lotta cheap and easy in that one.