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Lorendiac’s Lists: An Introduction
Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 8:00 AM EST
Updated: Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 2:21 AM EST
The poster named Lorendiac has been doing a series of numbered lists examining various cliches and the like that are peculiar to superhero comics.
He attempts to identify every possible, say, “excuses for bringing back a dead character” or “ways to end a superhero’s romance,” and then he proceeds to detail each one, with examples from comic books.
I think they’re entertaining reads, so I’m glad to be able to hopefully show them to some of you folks who might not have otherwise seen them (Click below for a selection of his previous lists, and check back in about a half hour for his first new list appearing on the blog).
12 Motives for Killing a Comic Book Character
17 Excuses for Bringing Back a Dead Character
16 Types of Retcons
19 Ways to End a Superhero’s Romance
22 Ways to Show a Superhero Kill Someone
9 Categories of Continuity
5 Types of Superhero Team Members
Secret Identities: 10 Ways to Unspill the Beans
Superhero Finances: 10 Situations
13 Reasons to Use a Deathtrap
14 Functions for a Superhero Costume
10 Types of Superhero Successors
14 Ways to Rehabilitate a Disgraced Superhero
14 Motives for Becoming a Superhero
12 Tricks for Keeping Superheroes Young
9 Comments
Tomer
August 13, 2007 at 8:41 am
None of the links work. It says “site unavailable”.
Dan
August 13, 2007 at 9:14 am
Too much traffic.
km
August 13, 2007 at 9:21 am
I think it’s a good idea - I’ve been enjoying these lists myself over the last few months. Hopefully the links get fixed quickly…
Tomer
August 13, 2007 at 9:34 am
Works now.
Bryan Long
August 13, 2007 at 11:21 am
It’s back to ‘temporarily exceeded data transfer limit.’
Bill Reed
August 13, 2007 at 11:22 am
I’ve been reading Lorendiac’s stuff for years now, so it’s cool to see him appear on this site.
Ian Astheimer
August 13, 2007 at 11:32 am
GeoCities is a wretched hosting service.
Any chance you could post those linked-to lists here, Brian? Or maybe in the forum?
I’d like to read ‘em.
Eric TF Bat
August 13, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Geocities? What? Is it 1994 already? I didn’t know it still existed! This guy needs to get a blog!
Lorendiac
August 13, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Eric TF Bat — But if I got my very own blog, I might feel the obligation to update it on some sort of regular schedule! You wouldn’t want me to suffer all that extra stress, would you?