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Do you mean CoX, or Thunderclap?

Can I just say how great it is that we're obsessing over how to replicate the look of a one shot tie-in comic book character from 2002? Man, I love this game.

Here's my take on him, FWIW. I looked at the first strip again, and the different colored wires are only prominent in one panel. For the rest, it's all blue. That's Tech Wired for the chest (which is definitely what the comics are modeling—the silver bit on the upper chest and the back details give it away) with Valkyrie 2 for the shoulders. The gloves are large Tech Sleek, which also look to me to be just what the comics are trying to do, with the blend effect. The legs are also Tech Wired, with rocket boots. I didn't work too hard on the face—you seem to have that nailed.

BTW, this? I really wanted it to be some version of Efficiency Expert Pither.

Come to think of it, I wonder if there's a belt option that would cover the upper legs. It sort of looks like the comics version has something like that.

It's too bad you can't color the cables in the legs gold without the waist also getting that color. But I think having the waist be gold wouldn't quite look right.

I just added a screenshot from the comics to my post above.

Nice! I think the legs are a bit different, though. The legs in the first comic have a pretty clear analogue in the tailor, I think (it looks sort of robotic/clockwork):

In the original Dark Horse promo comic, he actually shows up before Apex and War Witch—who, if you aren't aware, are also characters from the Dark Horse and Blue King comics. Apex was a total low-level noob in those comics, so it's still kind of cool to see him as a bad-ass with Vanguard. The Top Cow comics focused on the Freedom Phalanx and weren't nearly as charming as the ones with Apex and War Witch, IMO.

BTW, if you want to read the old comics, there's an archive here: http://www.cityofheroes.ca/media-and-downloads/comic-archive/index.html I was tickled to see Thunderclap show up in one of @Darmian's AE arcs.

Maybe so! And the last mission in "Gaunt Saints" is in an office building, not a lab, so you might be remembering a different mission.

Maybe I need an Invisiclues™ hint book for that set of missions. There were some things I thought might have been Easter eggs: But darned if I can find the Easter Egg in Mission 5 of The House of Gaunt Saints. Is it a placed object? Something that can be clicked that isn't a glowy? I'm not sure what the limitations are in AE.

If there is, I wasn't able to track it down—or didn't recognize it. You're talking about the final mission in The House of Gaunt Saints, right?

Okay, that's cool. And I totally missed that on my play-through. I'm surprised that Lord Recluse cons as orange instead of solid purple, though.

Oh, that map! Yes, that makes a lot more sense than the Cimerora...whatever that is map.

In my opinion, it fit quite well. Quite well. And there's a lot of lore there in Praetoria to be explored (and filled in), IMO.

Wait—there are Easter eggs? Well, now I've got to run the whole arc again...

Aha! That makes some sense. I remember that map being surprising, but figured it was just because I'd seen it in ITF so many times. What's the correct map?

Maybe I'm a hopeless optimist, but I usually figure this is the other way around: people want to see everyone else's costumes up close, and the only way to do that is to kind of get in their faces.

I just did @Darmian's Loyalist Praetorian arc, and I hope you do review it. It's great, IMO. Although, now that I've done this one and the "Dark" series..

One suggestion on this, too: in 1.1, I found the multi-character mission text boxes kind of jarring for some reason. I'm not sure if it was having "said <character>" in the mission text—which kind of breaks from the comic-book style usually seen in CoX—or that the dialog wasn't in quotes. There's definitely an art to working multi-NPC dialog into one box, though. Let's take this as an example: Here's one alternate take on that: You get the idea. The colors code who's talking, so not every line needs a "says Hornet" or "says Burke," which can get distracting as more characters get involved. Just something to think about (and I hope I'm not nitpicking too much).

That's why my Superman...er, "homage"...didn't take Rage. It's optional. I opted out.

I'm starting to worry that @TerroirNoir is going to hit the image upload limit...

Now that's a main. First time I recall needing a "wow" emjoi reaction on these forums. 'Cause...wow. How many vet levels does that toon have?

Some powerset combos immediately make me think of certain classic superheroes. For example: Invuln/SS Tanker: Superman Shield/SS Tanker: Captain America Claws/Regen Scrapper: Wolverine And so forth. What other AT and powerset combos make you think, "Oh, this is totally [insert superhero here]?"