Well, wings may not strictly be required. After all, he might go the route of favoring a white and gold color scheme, the use of a halo and other common imagery associated in the West with angelic beings. There is a wide and varied set of options available.
But I would agree that wings rank up there with capes for impractical looks that generally end up used for their 'cool' factor.
not exactly an angel, but an agent of god energy. which is easily a symbol of an agent of god, also known as an angel in the christian world.
in other words all they need to do is remind people that stupendous is tapped into creation energy, and powers is not. if they just use a show of force (stupendous is stronger), it becomes a david vs. goliath where stupendous plays the part of goliath.
That analogy is not really something I'm in favor of.
Casting Stupendous in the role of Goliath? It didn't go all that well for the Philistine back then.
Yep, I think Brooder would agree whole-heartedly with this point. The emphasis needs to be on Stupendous as a symbol of "good" and "justice"; relative power levels are a distraction, and creating an "underdog" American symbol in Major Power would probably be self-defeating.
Brooder (or I least I think it was him) as referred to Cap's as "the angel" before. We thought he was being rhetorical, due to Stupendous' personality, but it seems he was being quite literal.
Yep. [For those who don't recall what Kether is talking about, refer back to Brooder's talk with the Rev. Don Reeves back in Issue #11 (in particular, starting at http://fusion.webcomic.ws/comics/329).]
Who is to say there can't be multiple angels? The angel who was (Humanity, representing the angels of our better nature), the angel who is (Cap Stupendous) and the angel who will be (Savun/Bob as Fusion).
...And now I imagined that in the voice of Zathras.
Phew. That's a hard sell: Is an angel better than an American superhero, a superhero even created by American greatness? Whom would you trust more, a truely born American or an alien who lied to all of you all the time by making up an American-like appearance but is now reveiled as something else? He's not even human!
This idea may backfire, big time.
Not that I have a better idea by now, except laying low and gather information
Just to clarify: it's common knowledge that Captain Stupendous is alien--he explained as much in his Faces magazine interview, and it's one of the reasons Lord gives for not trusting him back in Issue #4.
Thanks for the clarification, I lost that detail from the radar.
Also, now reading it again, I should have put the first paragraph of my first comment here a bit differently, like so:
Phew. That's a hard sell: Is an angel better than an American superhero?
"A superhero created by American greatness! Whom would you trust more, a truely born American or an alien who lied to all of you all the time by making up an American-like appearance but is now reveiled as something else? He's not even human!"
As much as the part in quotation marks contains "alternative facts" (but it's not all untrue), pointing out the outer-world-ness of CS would work best if the SAS would be an international team... Huh. Wait, if Brooder wants so make the move to put the SAS under UN jurisdiction... with greater freedom in the humanitarian sector... making use of the things learned in the recent events... that might work well. It's still a bit risky, but it's such a big move that Lord would most likely not anticipate it and couldn't prepare for it in short time, while Brooder doesn't need special preparations within the UN, the truely good intentions would be in line with the UN's general intentions.
But I would agree that wings rank up there with capes for impractical looks that generally end up used for their 'cool' factor.
in other words all they need to do is remind people that stupendous is tapped into creation energy, and powers is not. if they just use a show of force (stupendous is stronger), it becomes a david vs. goliath where stupendous plays the part of goliath.
Casting Stupendous in the role of Goliath? It didn't go all that well for the Philistine back then.
Good misdirection!
...And now I imagined that in the voice of Zathras.
This idea may backfire, big time.
Not that I have a better idea by now, except laying low and gather information
Also, now reading it again, I should have put the first paragraph of my first comment here a bit differently, like so:
Phew. That's a hard sell: Is an angel better than an American superhero?
"A superhero created by American greatness! Whom would you trust more, a truely born American or an alien who lied to all of you all the time by making up an American-like appearance but is now reveiled as something else? He's not even human!"
As much as the part in quotation marks contains "alternative facts" (but it's not all untrue), pointing out the outer-world-ness of CS would work best if the SAS would be an international team... Huh. Wait, if Brooder wants so make the move to put the SAS under UN jurisdiction... with greater freedom in the humanitarian sector... making use of the things learned in the recent events... that might work well. It's still a bit risky, but it's such a big move that Lord would most likely not anticipate it and couldn't prepare for it in short time, while Brooder doesn't need special preparations within the UN, the truely good intentions would be in line with the UN's general intentions.