Alphabet Meme: R

I've done this one before, but frustratedpilot tagged me, so I'll go again. I gots the letter R! And R is for:

Rocket Raccoon! Adventurer! Tactictian! Talking Raccoon! Soon to go from supporting Annihilation: Conquest character to co-star of the new Guardians of the Galaxy! And hopefully he'll get his rocket skates back...

RPGs! No, not the rocket-propelled grenades. Though those can be nice. Role-playing Games. Right now I have to settle for play-by-post and computer games like Arcanum. But by preference I prefer face to face interactions with others in imagination building...

Rayner, Kyle! The best Green Lantern! Yeah, I said it! Screw Hal! And nothing against John or Guy, but Kyle be the man. Though he does make for a bad boyfriend...

Rom! Legendary hero of the Galadorian Space Knights! Scourge of the Dire Wraiths! Sadly tied up under the copyright of some stupid toy company. Or he'd totally be out kicking Phalanx ass...

Rabid Wombat! A very nice green creature card for Magic: the Gathering. Starts out as only a 0/2, but gets pumped up by every creature enchantment placed on it. Good for muscle in Green speed decks. Also very nice in combo with creature based Green/White and Green/Black. And the name I gave for my Superfic knock-off of Wolverine...

Rain! That wet stuff that fulls from the sky. Yay for sky water!

Reel Big Fish! Ska/punk band. High energy. Very nice...

Rocket Rhino! A character I rolled up for a MSH rpg that never got off the ground. He was a robot that could turn into a rhino. With rockets. Essentially a Transformer with amnesia...

Reefer Madness: The Musical! Songs about pot! Veronica Mars is terrorfied by turtles! Pot leads to theft and murder and sex with jazz musicians and selling babies to Chinese people and cannibalism!


Ok, for those looking to be tagged speak in the comments and you'll get a letter. Then you list 10 things you like and why that begin with that letter. Simple, no?

Sunday Trade: Blaze of Glory

Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes by John Ostrander & Leonardo Manco

Ok, lets toss some love Marvel's way this week. With a I-have-no-idea-if-this-is-in-continuity-or-not story that fits the basic Seven Samurai trope. Group of heroes recruited to protect a small town from bad guys. The town of Glory is under siege by a group of masked marauders called the Nightriders. So they do what any small town does in this case. Send out for a band of adventurersgun-fighters. The Rawhide Kid, Kid Colt, Reno Jones, the Two-Gun Kid, the Outlaw Kid, Red Wolf and the Ghost Rider. And chasing after Kid Colt the bounty-hunters Caleb Hammer and Lee "Gunhawk" Barnett...

Of course being a 7 type story more than a few "heroes" die in defense of the town. But what would you expect from a book called "Blaze of Glory"? Ostrander is probably one of the best Western writers in comics and Manco fits him perfectly here. There isn't anything surprising here. Just a solid story of Old West heroes and bad guys...