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Post by Pete on Sept 5, 2008 14:47:32 GMT
In issue 51, the first crew were captured trying to break Plunder out. However, Plunder said that they were a waste of space, or something similar (but basically, it meant that he couldn't be bothered breaking back into the prison and freeing them. It would also mean that he would have to divide up the treasure).
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Post by Balls on Sept 5, 2008 14:48:01 GMT
I don't even know how Fry ended up in the Metropolis City Prison, when he was clearly arrested in New Tek City in the Special Zone.
That's Lew Stringer for you.
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Post by Matt on Sept 5, 2008 14:54:08 GMT
Mr. Fry's the villian the missile breaks out of Metropolis Maximum Security prison. Fair enough it doesn't mention the rest of them... Maybe if they come back, one of them could have died. yeah just edited after I decided to check the issue before
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Post by The Stiv™ on Sept 5, 2008 14:57:43 GMT
I don't even know how Fry ended up in the Metropolis City Prison, when he was clearly arrested in New Tek City in the Special Zone.
That's Lew Stringer for you. The guy who wrote him in Metropolis Prison was a random contributor, wasn't Lew.
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Post by WinterFlames on Sept 5, 2008 15:00:11 GMT
I don't even know how Fry ended up in the Metropolis City Prison, when he was clearly arrested in New Tek City in the Special Zone.
That's Lew Stringer for you. It was someone called Jim Alexander. Also, it seems to me that it's a little moronic to have Mr Fry trapped in prison. Why wasn't it Proctor Speckle, and if it was, how did he get hold of more potion?
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Sept 5, 2008 15:04:05 GMT
Ah yes, "The Trickster"... Just had a quick flick through it, and oh my word it's bloody painful. Put simply, it looks like Jim Alexander didn't do his homework before he wrote the strip. I think we can safely discount it from the continuity, don't you?
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Post by Charles on Sept 5, 2008 15:36:53 GMT
I don't even know how Fry ended up in the Metropolis City Prison, when he was clearly arrested in New Tek City in the Special Zone. He broke out, made it to Mobius, then got arrested there somehow. PC Bodger got him on an illegal immigration charge, I dunno.
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Post by dk on Sept 5, 2008 16:55:32 GMT
Ah yes, "The Trickster"... Just had a quick flick through it, and oh my word it's bloody painful. Put simply, it looks like Jim Alexander didn't do his homework before he wrote the strip. I think we can safely discount it from the continuity, don't you? It's pretty bizarre that a random writer was brought in for a two-parter so late in the day.
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Post by Mambo's Here! Look Busy! on Sept 5, 2008 17:28:04 GMT
Was he the work experience guy?
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Post by Tom on Sept 5, 2008 20:11:13 GMT
He was a quota-filler for Deb Tate. She was content working with Nigel and Lew all the time but someone at Egmont wanted her to work with more than just the same two writers all the time. (I hear that Lew was bothered by his use of Tekno.)
Yes Sidewinder's gang was arrested in New Tek City in #118, but they were arrested while committing crimes in the Metropolis Zone. It is therefore reasonable to assume that when Mr Fry appeared in #150 he had been extradicted by the MZ authorities, and that the others might have been as well.
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Sept 5, 2008 21:04:43 GMT
Yes Sidewinder's gang was arrested in New Tek City in #118, but they were arrested while committing crimes in the Metropolis Zone. It is therefore reasonable to assume that when Mr Fry appeared in #150 he had been extradicted by the MZ authorities, and that the others might have been as well. That's very unlikely. If that was the case, why was Fry extradicted and not Bio-Hazard? It was Bio-Hazard who filled a bar with toxic waste, after all; Fry had, to our knowledge, never even set foot on Mobius. I still say the writer just screwed up.
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Post by Tom on Sept 5, 2008 21:07:37 GMT
They're all in that prison. Look, I'm a STC online writer and you're not, and I say that every story that appeared in STC is officially in continuity, and I will treat it as such. So pppppttt.
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Post by Charles on Sept 5, 2008 21:49:36 GMT
Yeah, but I said Fry just ran to Mobius and is the only one there and thus THE CHARACTERS YOU LIKE ARE DEAD DEAD DEAD, so pbbbbtttt. Jim Alexander, it should be noted, had done quite a bit of work for 2000AD/Judge Dredd Megazine and has recently done stuff for Spectacular Spider-Man Adventures. He stopped working for the former after his Pandora story. Because it was that bad a story.
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Post by WinterFlames on Sept 5, 2008 21:51:53 GMT
Fans make up their own minds about continuity, the editors have no standing, so Pppppppppppppppppbbttt.
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Post by Charles on Sept 5, 2008 22:00:21 GMT
Fans make up their own minds about continuity Yeah and they're wrong, so pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbttttttttttttt. (This could go on for AGES)
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Post by Pombar on Sept 5, 2008 22:39:22 GMT
Writers are only writers so long as they keep working - fans are fans forever. So therefore it's always eventually the fans who get to decide about continuity! so pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbtttttttttt.
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Post by Tom on Sept 5, 2008 22:46:37 GMT
The point is, if and when Sidewinder and his gang come back, we have a pre-written get-out clause. Now back on topic please.
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Post by Balls on Sept 6, 2008 0:43:25 GMT
Biohazard was the only one to commit a crime on Mobius. He would be the only one with a chance of being in a jail on Mobius.
Mr. Fry, Lord Sidewinder and Lightmare were all arrested for crimes in the Special Zone, so that's where they were.
And I'm sort of an artist, so pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt.
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Post by Ed on Sept 6, 2008 8:51:26 GMT
I assumed they were all in the Special Zone, but so what? He's behind an atomic bomb and two doomsdays (and got off scot free too). Why wouldn't he have an extra-dimensional panic room or emergency shuttle, a mansion on Mobius, a magical resurrection contract with genies (probably with a catch), whatever makes for an interesting story? The Sidewinders of the world always survive.
Great thread, Nigel (and great idea, Pete!). Just wondering, is this new pitch of yours and Nigel's 'Gimmik' or 'Magpie', or something new?
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Post by metallixmask on Sept 6, 2008 13:58:44 GMT
Heheh, I like having the heads run the continuity- the fans like me don't truly know what's good for them, despite what we'd like to think. Plus if we knew what the best was we wouldn't be asking the STC god Nigel, XD I'd love to see sidewinders gang back...so very, very much.
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Post by Charles on Sept 6, 2008 14:55:04 GMT
For Nigel - what made you decide to populate the Special Zone, and to specifically populate it with superhero pastiches, and then why'd you decide to have Sonic trapped there for a while?
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Post by dk on Sept 8, 2008 17:59:56 GMT
Was the Nameless Zone supposed to be on Mobius or in an alternate dimension?
Who keeps repairing the bridge?
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Post by Pitt on Sept 8, 2008 19:47:36 GMT
How did you get involved in STC in the first place?
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Post by Baron Canier on Sept 9, 2008 11:51:17 GMT
This question is stupidly far-fetched, but whatever. If you found out that they (whose "they"? I dunno, Sega?) were making a new and improved Decap Attack game, would you try to get involved somehow regarding the script/dialogue or would you simply leave them to it?
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Post by Tom on Sept 9, 2008 16:31:01 GMT
What species of animal is Queen Zorabel?
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