Talk:Chicago Press

If you like, I could help you flesh-out the Superheroes in Chicargo Comics. --Sikulu 06:41, 6 February 2006 (PST)

Hmmmm...let me give that some thought. Zahir 06:44, 6 February 2006 (PST)

Maybe its because I just rented X-2 (in anticipation for X-3), I'm very willing to work with you on the idea of the Chicago Comics superheroes. One idea in particular I'd like to borrow both from the X-Men and the Wild Cards series is that there is some common source for a lot of the super-hero powers. For the former, a race of aliens came to earth millions of years ago and imbedded the potential for radical mutations in the nascent human race. In the latter, the cause was a mutating virus that killed nine out of ten of those infected, then deformed nine out of ten of the survivors, so than one percent of those infected became "Aces," i.e. super-powered. Let me know what you think! Zahir 22:41, 19 February 2006 (PST)

Sounds interesting. Lets go for it. (Although, I was going to reserch the X-men anyway for one of my own comic-series, the Alter-Gen. No doubt that they could be adapted as well.) --Sikulu 00:36, 20 February 2006 (PST)

Some of my own superheroes gain their powers from a mutagenic compound (not unlike the Big Bang from Static Shock). Perhaps something like that, or maybe a high-energy cosmic-ray event (not unlike what happened to the Fantastic Four). Let me know what you think. --Sikulu 00:54, 20 February 2006 (PST)

How about a comet? A very strange comet, one composed of some exotic matter and the Earth passed through its tail sometime in the last few decades? A certain small percentage of humans so exposed have been mutated. Zahir 21:33, 20 February 2006 (PST)

A very strange comet. I'd sugesst, perhaps, one carrying a mutagenic substance, which only affects a small number of people. --Sikulu 01:29, 21 February 2006 (PST)

Ah! Which would mean that anyone obtaining a pure sample of this substance would be in position to...what? Become a god? Heh heh heh. Perhaps someone had some inkling of this comet's true nature and sent up a rocket to collect samples. One can see the crew of the rocket, the scientists who handled it, test subjects upon whom this substance was tried--all interesting stories of gaining metahuman powers. I would imagine anyone at very high altitudes when the comet passed (mountain climbers, airplane pilots, etc.) would also be strong candidates. Hmmm...perhaps the comet has strayed by before? Could this be what happened to the dinosaurs? And might there have been a race of metahumans in prehistory, the origins of ancient myths? Lots of interesting possibilities! Zahir 09:58, 21 February 2006 (PST)

Perhaps a backstory to the comet would occur in one (or more) of the comic series. Hmm, the plot thickens. --Sikulu 00:24, 22 February 2006 (PST)

Purifiers

The Purifiers sound an awful lot like the Sentinels. Is there an equivalent version of the Friends of Humanity too? --Sikulu 06:39, 24 February 2006 (PST)

I was thinking them as analogs of all the violent, superpowered anti-mutant groups in Marvel. Zahir 07:20, 24 February 2006 (PST)

Aren't most of the superheroes in Marver mutants though. I personaly can't think of any superpowered anti-mutant groups in those comics (though I don't read them myself, I just watched them (e.g. Spiderman, Fantastic 4) on TV). --Sikulu 07:31, 24 February 2006 (PST)

A huge amount of them are, yes. But then, some of the worst anti-Semites in history have in fact been Jewish. There have always been collaborators, too. Plus, in the Marvel Universe a significant percentage of super-powered individuals in fact wear powered suits (Iron Man, Vindicator, Guardian, Box, Doctor Doom, etc.) and another group were exposed to gamma radiation (The Hulk, She-Hulk, Doc Samson, The Abomination, Sasquatch, etc.) and another were subjects of scientific efforts to create superhumans (Captain America, Power Man, etc.) The Sentinels eventually evolved into quite a diverse group in their efforts to hunt down mutants. It should also be noted that Stryker in the film X-2 used mutants. Zahir 07:41, 24 February 2006 (PST)

That was probably down to irony on his part. Using mutants to help distroy their own kind. (There's already too much predjudice in the world.) --Sikulu 07:43, 24 February 2006 (PST)

One could also argue that the gamma-mutants (Hulk et al) could be categorised as mutants too. --Sikulu 07:44, 24 February 2006 (PST)

Mutants are pretty much born with their abilities that manifest (usually) around the time of puberty. Mutates on the other hand have radical changes in their phenotype activated by an outside force. Zahir 07:47, 24 February 2006 (PST)

New Squad

You don't mind if I add a squad of my own, do you. Only I've been thinking about one for a while. --Sikulu 00:37, 27 February 2006 (PST)

Go for it! Zahir 03:00, 27 February 2006 (PST)

What do you think of them? --Sikulu 03:50, 27 February 2006 (PST)