Sherman Davies' Marvel customs - Starshine

[Grungebob]

Awesome!

[A3n]

Hey that's my backyard!

Solid custom, nice.

Cheers

[Sherman Davies]

Originally Posted by Grungebob

Awesome!

Whoa, another celebrity appearance! I'm honored.

Originally Posted by A3n

Hey that's my backyard!

I'm amazed that you recognized that as being a pic of the Australian outback (which it is). I deliberately avoided slapping a pic of Sydney behind him because I thought it would be cheesy. Just outta curiosity, what gave it away? Is the outback that different from other deserts?

EDIT: A little reading on wikipedia shows that the Outback is not really a desert, more like very dry plains. Also, 90% of Ozzies live in cities - Crocodile Dundee, my butt.

[Hahma]

I like your Boomarang SD, but would you consider adding his Blastarang to his arsenel. It is supposed to be equivalent to 7 hand grenades and enough to demolish a car. Got that from Official Handbook of Marvel Universe. I just thought it might give him an extra little punch, but it's cool the way it is and keeps his cost down too.

[Matt Helm]

And I almost gave my Boomerang mini to my son last night. No way now man. The rug rat already has one but wanted my second one to use as Captain Boomerang... crazy kid.

I said no because I still have Whitestuff's NM24/TNT Boomerang in my list of comic art customs I would use. Well now Mr. Davies has upped the ante with another option.

Sorry son, I'm keeping my Bommerang mini.

And by the way, I knew it was the Outback right away. It could only pass for African plains otherwise. But since it was on a Boomerang card, I figured you went with the Outback.

Besides, in that bush I saw a wallaby (spelling?) run by and to the left some guy is eating a blooming onion.

[Felindar]

Originally Posted by A3n

There's no KB there. And When has Superman & the Hulk graced the same comic book? That would be a cool read.

There was a Crosover Clasics. From DC / Marvel. 1991

Superman / Spiderman
Hulk / Batman
Xmen / Teen Titans

The premis is that the two worlds are one that New York and Metropolis both exist ext. It avoids the rather anoying efort to explain why the two are coliding.

Pete

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by Sherman Davies

EDIT: A little reading on wikipedia shows that the Outback is not really a desert, more like very dry plains. Also, 90% of Ozzies live in cities - Crocodile Dundee, my butt.

And not just in cities - in coastal cities. They're not crazy - they stay the heck out of the middle of the country for the most part. That's how they can have a nation as wide and tall as the area from Michigan to California and still have about 30 million people to our 270ish million.

[Agent Minivann]

Originally Posted by Sherman Davies

EDIT: A little reading on wikipedia shows that the Outback is not really a desert, more like very dry plains. Also, 90% of Ozzies live in cities - Crocodile Dundee, my butt.

Technically (or should I say according to wikipedia) a desert is an area that receives less than 10 inches of precipitation a year. It didn't say it in the wikipedia article for the outback, but I saw elsewhere that it fits that qualifier, so yes it is a desert.
[/threadjack]

[A3n]

Originally Posted by Sherman Davies

I'm amazed that you recognized that as being a pic of the Australian outback (which it is). I deliberately avoided slapping a pic of Sydney behind him because I thought it would be cheesy. Just outta curiosity, what gave it away? Is the outback that different from other deserts?

I think it's more the brown but not dead look that gives it away. I suppose it's easy to understand when you've seen it in person. One of most iconic poems about our country starts "I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains." & this just sums it up nicely.

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

And not just in cities - in coastal cities. They're not crazy - they stay the heck out of the middle of the country for the most part. That's how they can have a nation as wide and tall as the area from Michigan to California and still have about 30 million people to our 270ish million.

Originally Posted by Agent Minivann

Technically (or should I say according to wikipedia) a desert is an area that receives less than 10 inches of precipitation a year. It didn't say it in the wikipedia article for the outback, but I saw elsewhere that it fits that qualifier, so yes it is a desert.
[/threadjack]

You'd make a great teacher Bats . Bats is 100% correct, however nearly all Aussies live 30-60mins away from an area that would have a scene like depicted in SD's card, as it's not just our "desert" that looks like that, however lately nearly all of Australia could fit into the classification of desert based on the lack of precipitation in recent times. Lucky we have beautiful beaches to escape to .

Cheers

[IAmBatman]

Hmm ... my experience during my study abroad time there a couple of years back (Go University of Wollongong! ) was that the country is basically sort of like a big reddish brown stretch in the middle, followed by some trees and "the bush" in a ring around that, followed by a ring of city and houses, followed by an outer ring of beaches.
Seriously, are there any major cities in the country further than 5 minutes from the coast except Canberra?

[A3n]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Seriously, are there any major cities in the country further than 5 minutes from the coast except Canberra?

Like you said earlier, we ain't crazy (said with a constant head twitching).

[Sherman Davies]

Leave it to me to threadjack my own thread!

Originally Posted by Hahma

I like your Boomarang SD, but would you consider adding his Blastarang to his arsenel. It is supposed to be equivalent to 7 hand grenades and enough to demolish a car. Got that from Official Handbook of Marvel Universe. I just thought it might give him an extra little punch, but it's cool the way it is and keeps his cost down too.

Good call Hahma - you're just full of good tips today! Giving him a new special attack also allowed me to change his Return Shot Special Attack to a special power, which I like better anyway. Here's the update.