David Meadows
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Twenty Years Ago...
We can't agree on the exact date but it was some time in 1987 when Strikeforce was born.
It wasn't called Strikeforce at first. It wasn't called anything in particular. It was just me and some friends sitting round a table and having fun. And we didn't plan it to last twenty years. Once it started, it just wouldn't let anything stop it.
How did it start...? It was my love of reading comics, my obsession with writing stories, a universe that had been inside my head since my early childhood... and the most phenomenally creative bunch of co-creators that a frustrated writer could ever wish for.
Twenty years later. The table has changed but the group is still here. This afternoon we sat around a table and wrote the 800th issue of the imaginary comic that features Strikeforce.
Eight hundred issues and no end in sight. Strikeforce is unstoppable. It has been the biggest factor in my life for twenty years and I wouldn't be the person I am today without it. No exaggeration.
For a long time I've wanted to commit their adventures to paper. This anniversary finally seemed the right time to do it.
Yes I've bumped the next issue of Heroes back a month to get this finished. Some people will probably moan about that. But this is something I had to do. Without this, there wouldn't have been a Heroes.
So here it is, as accurately as my twenty-year-old memories could render it. The writing (and therefore any errors) is mine but the story was a team effort. I hope you enjoy it... I did.
Strikeforce #1: Time Is
Dedicated to everyone, past, present and future, who has been a member of Strikeforce.
Ready for the next twenty years?
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17/2/2007, 22:46
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Re: Twenty Years Ago...
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The story is set in the far future.
Oxymoron... 20 years ago in the far future.
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http://forums.millarworld.tv/index.php?showtopic=90564&st=20
It's not clicky, though, sorry
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18/2/2007, 10:36
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Re: Twenty Years Ago...
Wow. Nice.
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18/2/2007, 11:57
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Re: Twenty Years Ago...
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2. ZOD:
Somebody has go
Missed a word - and shouldn't it be someone?
But I liked it
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http://forums.millarworld.tv/index.php?showtopic=90564&st=20
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19/2/2007, 2:26
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Oho! A clever, compact and concise intro for the original heroes! Certainly more than spiffy enough for me not to mind a delay in the other "strip". Especially liked the 'bad' language, "Chew you, cop". Chortle! (Might use that meself). But what kind of 'hero' resorts to guns!? Mind, I suppose Scorpio is a "Special" Policeman. Cue a series of rambling inferences.
Recalling from when Lang was being brainwashed by Sgt Joe Thursday in the 20th Century, it seems that the "Special Police" is focussed primarily on deterring and punishing criminals rather than protecting and serving its citizenry. Lang referred to having cameras on the streets and the legal power to "tag" people for their own security. What kind of threat is it (real or imagined) that makes people sacrifice their own liberty? (Hmmm, topical). In the 24th Century is it lots of superpowered criminals with access to restricted technology, or is there something else? Or maybes the crooks aren't crooks and are really rebels against a repressive Government?
Which brings me to the Senator. What kind of Senator is he? (Besides apparently corrupt). How do they get chosen/elected? And to what institution? Exactly what does this 'Senate' or 'Council' control and how much, both geographically and politically. (Considering the reference to "The University of North America" and Kadnez' statement regarding Earth's security, maybe it's the entire planet?) You refer to it as the "Council", but I presume it's not the "Science Council" upon which this Zod bloke is a "Senior Councillor". (Scientists running the world…shudder). And surely this doesn't give him authority to send a bunch of fascists…sorry, Special Police…back in time? Hmmm, how much power and authority does this Kadnez character possess?
All this time travel misplaced cause and effect kinda stuff always hurts my brain. Couldn't sending back five people from the future to 1987 be what triggers the "hole in time" in the first place? And why did the super criminals want this data? They seemed to be working together. But for whom? (Cos none a them exactly sounded like a criminal mastermind, it must be said).
I must confess, I am intrigued, dammit! When's the next issue? Ha ha!
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21/2/2007, 18:46
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