lets see:
West of the Rockies
Midwest and Plains
South
East Coast above Virginia
Texas
What tropes in science fiction annoy you?
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West of the Rockies
Midwest and Plains
South
East Coast above Virginia
Texas
Texas is its whole own planet just on Earth from what I hear 
You think that's weird: I distinctly remember an episode of Super Friends which took place on an Old West-style planet called "Texicana" which was a rather bizarre hybrid of the West and the ultra-modern. One of the things we saw in the episode was a horse-drawn carriage with a rocket engine on the back.
The worst Sliders alt-Earth was the one with Dinosaurs. Pretty much everything was the same except that they had Dinosaurs!! We, of course, know that it's impossible. The Dinosaurs had to disappear for the rat-like creatures that were the mammals back then to evolve and become everything mammals are today, including us.
If it had a..... why was it being drawn by..... you know what, never mind.You think that's weird: I distinctly remember an episode of Super Friends which took place on an Old West-style planet called "Texicana" which was a rather bizarre hybrid of the West and the ultra-modern. One of the things we saw in the episode was a horse-drawn carriage with a rocket engine on the back.
Haha I remember Superfriends
Bravestar and The Galaxy Rangers combined scifi and the wild west nicely, the latter was one that both adults and kids could enjoy and was one of the few cartoons of the 80s where characters bled or got injured.
Bravestar and The Galaxy Rangers combined scifi and the wild west nicely, the latter was one that both adults and kids could enjoy and was one of the few cartoons of the 80s where characters bled or got injured.
“Batman: Dead or Alive”You think that's weird: I distinctly remember an episode of Super Friends which took place on an Old West-style planet called "Texicana" which was a rather bizarre hybrid of the West and the ultra-modern. One of the things we saw in the episode was a horse-drawn carriage with a rocket engine on the back.
Oh, people have been mixing vampires and sci-fi and superheroes for forever. Batman fought an evil vampire, The Monk, in one of his very first comic-book appearances back in the thirties. And need I mention Morbius, Vampirella, Blade? As well as movies like LIFEFORCE or PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES.
Heck, I once edited an entire anthology of science-fiction vampire stories, titled TOMORROW SUCKS.
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Oh, people have been mixing vampires and sci-fi and superheroes for forever. Batman fought an evil vampire, The Monk, in one of his very first comic-book appearances back in the thirties. And need I mention Morbius, Vampirella, Blade? Not to mention movies like LIFEFORCE or PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES.
Heck, I once edited an entire anthology of science-fiction vampire stories, titled TOMORROW SUCKS.
Well, vampires, zombies and most superheroes stories (although for the latter there are a couple of exceptions that prove the rule) are really not my thing but if they were I am pretty sure that I'd be very interested in your anthology.
What a title!
Batman’s adventure against The Monk produced one of the best covers, too:
Thanks! It actually started out as a joke, while we were trying to come up with a real title, but then my co-editor was "Wait. We should actually call it that!"
Took some effort to talk the publisher into it, but . . ..
There was a sequel, too: TOMORROW BITES.
Vampires and SF and superheroes? It makes me think a sufficiently detailed mash-up is a form of scrimshaw, elaborate decorations on by-products. It has an intrinsic novelty in its materials. Blended with the delights of miniaturism, no doubt it has its rewards for those who like that sort of thing. Unless it's high camp, of course. But in general blending magic and science works like playing Chopin melody on the right hand while rewriting it as serial music with the left hand. Or maybe making it a duet between a koto and a duduk. It's why the Avengers movies had such a hard time fitting in Thor, because magic is trumps, and the magic always swoops in to win.
I have the opposite attitude. I love tearing down genre barriers and and mashing them together. Heck, most of the stuff I edit these days are mashups of one kind or another: horror-westerns, hard-boiled occult noir, superheroes vs. Gothic monsters, weird science vs. magic, etc. Never seen the point of trying to keep the chocolate out of the peanut better or vise versa. Sometimes two great tastes go great together.
Bring on the alien samurai werewolves!
Bring on the alien samurai werewolves!
Texas was destroyed in WW3, then 23rd century Disney company bought the land and made it a theme park ala Westworld styleTexas is its whole own planet just on Earth from what I hear
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