What was difficult to understand about "we're not going to get into any trouble tonight"?
— James, Heroes #51

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Heroes  [OT]   Why Superheroes Always Win Support Search RSS runboard.com       Sign up (learn about it) | Sign in (lost password?) Ray Oceanweaver Superhero Global user Registered: 04-2003 Location: England, UK Posts: 175 Reply | Quote Why Superheroes Always Win Why Superheroes Always Win --- Rachel ~The optimist fails as badly as the pessimist, just has a better time of it~ Wings of Rapture - For Writers of Erotica and Romance 2/9/2007, 15:05 Send Email to Ray Oceanweaver   Send PM to Ray Oceanweaver Blog David Meadows Editor-in-chief Global user Registered: 09-2003 Posts: 442 Reply | Quote Re: Why Superheroes Always Win So what this guy is saying is that sociable people with a big circle of acquaintances always do better than the intoverted loners? Bummer --- "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- John Buscema, 1927-2002 5/9/2007, 12:32 Send Email to David Meadows   Send PM to David Meadows Ray Oceanweaver Superhero Global user Registered: 04-2003 Location: England, UK Posts: 175 Reply | Quote Re: Why Superheroes Always Win You'd fit right in with all the Marvel baddies, David. Now you've just got to choose a name for yourself! Something REALLY scary! --- Rachel ~The optimist fails as badly as the pessimist, just has a better time of it~ Wings of Rapture - For Writers of Erotica and Romance 6/9/2007, 18:28 Send Email to Ray Oceanweaver   Send PM to Ray Oceanweaver Blog knightflyer Gadgeteer Global user Registered: 10-2004 Location: Orion Arm, Milky Way Posts: 244 Reply | Quote Re: Why Superheroes Always Win It think he's found that Marvel writers write about superheroes, not villains, and has misinterpreted his results. Stuart Last edited by knightflyer, 6/9/2007, 19:30 --- Stuart --------- "What goes around come around." "And sometimes you get what's coming around." "And sometime you are what's coming around." Jim Butcher, Grave Peril 6/9/2007, 19:29 Send Email to knightflyer   Send PM to knightflyer David Meadows Editor-in-chief Global user Registered: 09-2003 Posts: 442 Reply | Quote Re: Why Superheroes Always Win It does seem like a fairly obvious conclusion. Still, it would be interesting to read his paper and see what he was really trying to say. I'm tempted to create some kind of social network diagram for Heroes... of course, it's going to be more limited than the Marvel Universe because everything revolves around the hub of one set of main characters. Still... would be a way to track which secondary characters I've left with dangling subplots... let me think about it... mumble mumble information architecture blah blah blah secret plans plah blah blah atom bomb blah blah blah death of chi-yun blah blah blah --- "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- John Buscema, 1927-2002 7/9/2007, 15:46 Send Email to David Meadows   Send PM to David Meadows Ray Oceanweaver Superhero Global user Registered: 04-2003 Location: England, UK Posts: 175 Reply | Quote Re: Why Superheroes Always Win Putting "death of Chi-Yun" in there is just to wind me up, isn't it? --- Rachel ~The optimist fails as badly as the pessimist, just has a better time of it~ Wings of Rapture - For Writers of Erotica and Romance 8/9/2007, 17:03 Send Email to Ray Oceanweaver   Send PM to Ray Oceanweaver Blog David Meadows Editor-in-chief Global user Registered: 09-2003 Posts: 442 Reply | Quote Re: Why Superheroes Always Win [innocent face emoticon] --- "No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning." -- Lynne Truss 9/9/2007, 16:33 Send Email to David Meadows   Send PM to David Meadows David Meadows Editor-in-chief Global user Registered: 09-2003 Posts: 442 Reply | Quote Re: Why Superheroes Always Win quote: David Meadows wrote: Still, it would be interesting to read his paper and see what he was really trying to say. Ok, if I had looked a bit further I would have found the link to a PDF of the paper on the abstract page. I don't understand all the stats but the ideas are interesting, particulalrly how certain pivotal characters join sections of the network. Some of the "hubs" are obvious (Spider-Man, Captain America). Others are less obvious -- Beast, for example. But Beats has been in both the X-Men and the Avengers, so a bit of thought makes that one obvious too. --- "No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning." -- Lynne Truss 10/9/2007, 20:06 Send Email to David Meadows   Send PM to David Meadows Add a reply Link to us   -  Blogs   -  Hall of Honour   -  Chat You are not logged in (login)      Board's time is: 28/11/2009, 15:13