I think CoT needs a digital comic to parallel the game. One issue a month, free to subbers and a small fee for free to play. The book will highlight the activities of the flagship team (whoever they are) as well as dropping hints as to upcoming content. If the book is good, subbers might even be willing to add a small fee to their sub for it (I would).

IIRC the CoX comic was very popular and widely read by the players. Btw the writing was crap but it was an actual comic about an actual game the players participated in. The wedding issue tied in to a wedding event in the game that was so popular it had to be run several times a day over an entire weekend to get enough players in.

I think that a comic would be good for the game. A way to draw players in and highlight possible new content.

I can understand that. I would prefer that many of the game elements be reminiscent of the X-Men and other Marvel comics of the 80s. The bad guys are usually bad but the more nuanced ones can have traces of honor or nobility in them. Mr Freeze from the Batman Animated Series was like this. He JUST wanted to save his wife and went a little overboard with it. Dr Doom would never destroy the world since he honestly feels that he is the one most qualified to rule it.

You should have the REALLY bad types though. The Jokers, Jack the Ripper types that are unredeemed. These are the ones you hold up as stark contrasts to OTHER villains that are 'merely criminals.'

Heroes should span the gamut from The Punisher to Spider Man in their morality. Include the whole spectrum...keeps it interesting.

The MOST important thing will be the writing. Always a tough job. You don't want the players to feel too confined but if you let them run too wild it's chaos.

I expect there's room for everything. If it's not actually built/writtten in, it will certainly manifest itself through the players. Dependent, I suppose, on what we have access to via Costume Creator and Mission Architect, etc.

I think when most normal people (meaning non-geeks like ourselves) think of Comic Book Superheroes, they picture the SIlver Age types from the late 60's and 70's. I've always found it interesting that the most popular heroes, still, are the ones that have survived with very little change since their Golden Age (40's-50's) origins. Spider-man is a marked exception in that his origin is in the 60's, and a conscious departure from the norm of Golden Age comics. I constantly shake my head at modern directors feeling they have to "modernize" or re-imagine classic heroes.

So, I'm hoping to see a broad range in the "living" heroes we see in the City. The more "classic" cast of hero might be seen as a "throwback" by some, but if they aren't there to inspire the current crop of heroes, I'd be disappointed. But we would definitely feel a lack if some of the grittier "anti-hero" types werent represented, as well.