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the latest obsession
Jun. 4th, 2021 07:00 pmI'm currently getting entirely too fannish about Sentinel Comics.
Which…
Okay. This requires some backstory.
Once upon a time – approximately ten years ago – two guys got together and decided to make a card game with superheroes kicking arse. But they realised that, laws being what they are, they couldn't, for instance, make a game with Superman and Batman fighting Lex Luthor, or with Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four battling Magneto – at least not without being thoroughly sued. So, instead, they created Sentinel Comics.
As in:
- they created a fictional comics line by the fictional company Sentinel Comics
- they created a rich backstory of eighty years of comics history
- they created dozens of superheroes and supervillains
- they created the backstory of each hero, and each villain
- they created epic universe-shaking events
- they created a bunch of alternate timelines
- they created a whole lot of comic book art showcasing different events from the comics
…and then they created a card game.
I'm not really into the card game. But I am a roleplayer – and when someone mentioned the new Sentinel Comics RPG (which looks really fun), I was very interested, but also very frustrated, because they kept referencing people from the comics that I'd never heard of.
So I tracked down… The Letters Page.
The Letters Page is a podcast in which the two creators of Sentinel Comics sit down and talk through the backstory of each of their comic book characters. And I am rather obsessed with it. Every day, I sit down and play Stardew Valley, and listen to people talk about fictional comic book characters from non-existent comic books, and get more and more invested in the fictional stories happening in these comics that I can't read BECAUSE THEY DON'T EXIST AT ALL. I want to read these awesome comics, dammit! They're so much fun!
Which…
Okay. This requires some backstory.
Once upon a time – approximately ten years ago – two guys got together and decided to make a card game with superheroes kicking arse. But they realised that, laws being what they are, they couldn't, for instance, make a game with Superman and Batman fighting Lex Luthor, or with Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four battling Magneto – at least not without being thoroughly sued. So, instead, they created Sentinel Comics.
As in:
- they created a fictional comics line by the fictional company Sentinel Comics
- they created a rich backstory of eighty years of comics history
- they created dozens of superheroes and supervillains
- they created the backstory of each hero, and each villain
- they created epic universe-shaking events
- they created a bunch of alternate timelines
- they created a whole lot of comic book art showcasing different events from the comics
…and then they created a card game.
I'm not really into the card game. But I am a roleplayer – and when someone mentioned the new Sentinel Comics RPG (which looks really fun), I was very interested, but also very frustrated, because they kept referencing people from the comics that I'd never heard of.
So I tracked down… The Letters Page.
The Letters Page is a podcast in which the two creators of Sentinel Comics sit down and talk through the backstory of each of their comic book characters. And I am rather obsessed with it. Every day, I sit down and play Stardew Valley, and listen to people talk about fictional comic book characters from non-existent comic books, and get more and more invested in the fictional stories happening in these comics that I can't read BECAUSE THEY DON'T EXIST AT ALL. I want to read these awesome comics, dammit! They're so much fun!