Dec 25 2010
Tales from the Bully Pulpit was incredible
Tales from the Bully Pulpit was 84 pages of this. Teddy Roosevelt steals HG Wells’ time machine and meets up with Thomas Edison’s ghost to stop Argentinian Nazis from conquering Mars.
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Also, Bully Pulpit had one of the best openings I’ve ever seen.
“Bring it, boy. I’m gonna emancipate your teeth.”
That line is made of win!
Some other winners that probably won’t make much sense out of context:
NIGHT WATCHMAN, to MYSTERIOUS FIGURE: I’m sorry, but the Edison Museum is off-limits to the public.
The mysterious figure does an action pose and whacks the watchman with his stick.
MYSTERIOUS FIGURE, now revealed to be TEDDY ROOSEVELT: I’m not the public, I’m the President.
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PAUL BUNYAN: FLAPJAAAAAACKS!
This sounds like a good straight to DVD movie following Captain America’s release.
*right click, save*
This is excellent on so many levels. Currently participating in a table top RPG and our superheroes have gone back in time to 1945 Japan and Hitler has apparently forgot to kill himself. At close of the last game session, my character was about to run Hitler down with a truck. If I can use Lincoln’s line at any point during the next game session, I’m totally jumping on the opportunity.