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Post by dans on Sept 22, 2020 0:37:43 GMT
Even if Johnny is totally absolutely meticulous cutting out his heroes, we know for sure there will be at least partial pictures on the other sides - and Johnny says "Say, you, T-Bolt - make 'em real for the day and fill them in on what they need to know!" so even if Johnny has cut, say, the Pantherman in half, the T-bolt would patch him back up. There might be some ads on the opposite sides of those cutouts, too... maybe Charles Atlas will come to life, and he'll have a Daisy BB gun in hand, or an army tank, or just about anything. We'd have to put limits on that before starting the story. But say, you can hardly imagine what a plague Johnny just unleashed on Earth 2. HOLY MOLEY!
The Owl - one of my favorite panels...
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Post by redsycorax on Sept 22, 2020 1:04:50 GMT
Or perhaps he was tracing images of the public domain superheroes out because he didn't want to damage the comics? Which, if the ink was sticky enough, might carry some of it onto the images. That would dispose of the inadvertant transposition of super-villains and deranged advertisements.
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Post by dans on Sept 22, 2020 1:23:43 GMT
I am pretty sure he won't take the time to trace them. Maybe Johnny only activates the front of the cutouts, and there are only a couple of sloppy cutouts that bring along unexpected visitors...
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Post by redsycorax on Sept 22, 2020 2:41:29 GMT
What about him suddenly realising the problem and gluing the cutouts onto cardboard? That might work. He still might run out of cardboard...
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Post by dans on Sept 22, 2020 11:05:42 GMT
"Say, you, T-Bolt - the guys on the top side of the cut-outs, make 'em real for the day, and fill them in on what they need to know - and make sure you only do the top sides!"
But he put one down upside down, or the JSA cat walked across one of the chairs, or the breeze from the ceiling fan caused one or two to flutter to the floor...
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Post by DocQuantum on Sept 22, 2020 18:35:36 GMT
The more we talk about this the more it sounds like Funnyface should be the villain, and the villainous team could be a group of fictional villains from any genre!
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Post by dans on Sept 22, 2020 20:20:08 GMT
sounds like two different stories. Funnyface wouldn't bring a team of heroes to life, so that would be a story about the JSA fighting just about any fictional bad guys that existed before 1946 or so, while the other story would be a team of PD heroes fighting JSA foes...
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Post by DocQuantum on Sept 22, 2020 20:41:16 GMT
Thematically it makes sense.
1. Johnny wishes away the JSA by accident (including honorary members Superman $ Batman) 2. Fictional villains appear and begin attacking 3. Johnny panics but reasons fictional villains need to be fought by fictional heroes, and runs to his comic book stash to assemble a team to replace each and every member 4. Funnyface is revealed to be behind the villains
Of course, we’re counting on Johnny being a comic book expert, which I doubt he is, so let’s add his ward Peachy Pet to the story. Maybe she’s the comic book fan who knows exactly who to call on.
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Post by dans on Sept 22, 2020 22:03:06 GMT
I wasn't actually thinking about having PD villains in the story until red pointed out that there would be bad guys on the back of some of Johnny's cut outs, but yes, that story does hang together thematically.
I wish we had a story generator, where we pour the story outline in and poof - out comes the story!
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Post by DocQuantum on Sept 23, 2020 0:08:02 GMT
I think there's an AI that can generate stories after being fed stories. I thought about feeding a whole bunch of Five Earths stories to it and see what comes out!
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Post by dans on Sept 23, 2020 0:38:26 GMT
The organization that produces the SAT tests has an essay grader - if you feed it a bunch of essays on a particular subject, each of which needs to be graded by human graders first, it eventually learns to grade other essays on the same topic with grades that are similar to those applied by human graders. But I've never heard of the AI you are talking about. They ought to put it online for free while they are tuning it up!
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Post by DocQuantum on Sept 23, 2020 0:43:06 GMT
This is the video where I heard about it. A short film written by an AI, with some human editing.
There are several videos on YouTube about AI-written stories, such as this one. Kinda funny.
As you might expect, it's mostly nonsensical, but occasionally funny.
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Post by redsycorax on Sept 23, 2020 1:02:59 GMT
Which leaves the question why Johnny was cutting out the figures in the first place. How about using them to entertain children at a local orphanage?
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Post by dans on Sept 23, 2020 1:31:12 GMT
From the OP:
A subset of JSA members (Batman, Wonder Woman, Dr. Mid-Night, Sandman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Starman, and Johnny Thunder) is gathered together on a national holiday, and eventually Johnny says "Say, you'd think my pals would get a day off today!" and they all disappear. (The other members are off enjoying the holiday or are on their own cases...). When Johnny tries to get them back, the T-Bolt tells him they'll be back at midnight and they are enjoying their time away, leave them alone...
But, of course, some important case pops up that requires the JSA. Johnny is frantic for a while, and then he has a great idea. It makes him very sad to do this, but he opens a bag he is carrying, dumps a bunch of comics he bought earlier that day on the meeting table, and goes to work with a scissors. Finally, he puts cutouts of various heroes on the chairs around the table, and commands the T-Bolt - "Say, you, T-Bolt - make 'em real for the day and fill them in on what they need to know!"
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Post by lawrenceliberty on Sept 27, 2020 16:57:42 GMT
I think that's a good idea.
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