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maxwell-grant · 4 years ago

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What’s the difference between a pulp hero and a super hero?

There is a common sentiment when discussing pulp heroes, when compared to superheroes, that positions the two as if they were separate by entire eras, with pulp heroes being as distinct from the superheroes as the dinosaurs are to mankind. But then again, the dinosaurs never really went away, did they?

Oh sure, they endured a great extinction, they downsized and ceded their thrones to the tiny little rats that scurried in their shadow, who then grew to become just as big, and then even bigger, but they never went away. They simply adapted into new forms and formed new ecosystems. We call them birds now.

The gap between Superman and The Shadow is merely 6 years, hardly much of a generation. There are those that argue that the Marvel and DC universes still have pulp heroes, that Batman is (or was) one, that characters like The Question and Moon Knight carry on the tradition. We have characters like Hellboy, Grendel, Tom Strong and Zack Overkill as original, modern examples of pulp characters, strongly identified as such. Venture Bros had in 2016 the best modern take on the Green Hornet. Lavender Jack is still going strong. So the idea that pulp heroes are defined solely by being old and outdated isn’t exactly true, when clearly there’s still enough gas in the tank centuries later for stories with them to be told.

Is there any meaningful distinction between pulp heroes and superheroes? If not, can we identify one?

Costume is definitely a big part of it, as Grant Morrison famously argued in his own summation. Of what he considers the big difference between the two:

“What makes the superhero more current is the performance aspect. That's what The Shadow and those other guys don't really have. Their costumes are not bright, and they don't have their initials on their chest, and everything isn't out front and popping like the superheroes. I think we can relate to that about them because in the world we live in, everyone has a constant need to be a star. I think superheroes are keyed into that parallelism. They're performers. They're rock stars, and they always have been.

And he’s right, to an extent. It’s definitely tied into the central differences between The Shadow and Batman, as I’ve elaborated. While The Shadow was far, far from the only type of pulp hero, the superhero’s costume has long been defined as THE thing that sets it apart from every other type of fictional character. At least, when it comes to American superheroes.

Because the “criteria” for superheroes is nowhere near as set in stone as some would like to believe. Our basic definition of superheroes is based around comparisons and contrasts to Superman and Batman, and how they fit into what we call “the superhero genre”. The existence of a superhero genre is, in and of itself, debatable, and any working definition for superheroes is inevitably going to have too many exceptions.

Superheroes are not defined by settings, like cowboys or spacemen, or their profession, like detectives. They can’t be defined by superpowers (Batman), a mission statement, having secret identities (Fantastic Four, Tony Stark), being good people, or good at their jobs. The costume, the closest there is to a true, defining convention, still has a considerable share of exceptions like Jack Knight’s Starman, a great deal of the X-Men who do not wear uniforms, or most superheroes created outside the US. The most basic definition of superhero is of comic book characters with iconic costumes and enhanced abilities who fight villains in shared superhero universes, but even that falls short of exceptions by including characters who are not superheroes (John Constantine and other Vertigo characters, Jonah Hex, the Punisher). Some people would call Goku or Harry Potter or Lucky Luke or Monica’s Gang superheroes, Donald Duck has literally been one. “Character with a distinctive design and unusual talents who fights evil” includes virtually every fictional hero that’s ever achieved a modicum of popularity in a visual medium.

Even telling stories with super characters doesn’t mean you’re going to be writing a superhero story (Joker). Superheroes are not defined by settings and genres, but they can inhabit just about any of them you can imagine. Horror, westerns, gritty crime drama, historical reconstruction, romance, space adventure, war stories, surrealism stories. As Morrison put it, they aren’t so much a genre as they are “a special chilli pepper-like ingredient designed to energize other genres”, part of the reason why they colonized the entire blockbuster landscape.

Aviation became a thing in the war years, so they started producing en masse aviation pulps as a subgenre. Zeppelins became popular, so they had a short-lived zeppelin subgenre. Celebrities starred in their own magazines. The American pulps were different from the German pulps, or the Italian pulps, or the Canadian pulps. In China, wuxia arose at a similar time period and with similar themes and distribution. In Brazil, we have “folhetos”, short, poetic, extremely cheap prose often written about romantic heroes and “cangaçeiros”, the closest local equivalent to the American cowboys. In Japan, “light novels” began life as pulp fiction, distributed in exactly the same format and literally sold as such. Pulp fiction has long outlived any and all attempts to define it as 30s literary fiction only.

Likewise, “pulp” and “pulp heroes” are terms employed very, very loosely. Characters like The Shadow and Doc Savage arrived quite late in the history of pulp fiction. You had characters like Jimmie Dale, Bulldog Drummond, Tarzan, Conan, a billion non-descript trenchcoat guys, and before those the likes of Nick Carter and Sexton Blake, dime novel detectives who made the jump to pulp. You had your hero pulps, villain pulps, adventure pulps, romance pulps, horror pulps, weird menace pulps. Science fiction, planetary romance, roman-era adventures, lost race adventures, anything that publishers could sell was turned into pulp stories starring, what else, pulp heroes.

How do you make sense of it all?

The main difference to consider is the mediums they were made for.

Pulp heroes were made for literature, superheroes were made for comic books.

Superheroes NEED to pop out visually, to have bold and flashy and striking designs, because comic books are visual stories first and foremost, who live and die on having attractive, catching character designs and the promise of an entertaining story with them. Pulp heroes, in turn, can often just be ordinary dudes and dudettes and anything in between in trenchcoats or evening wear or furry underwear, or masters of disguise rarely identifiable, because the only thing that needs to visually striking at first glance in a pulp magazine is the cover, so your imagination can get ready to do the rest. Smoking guns, bloody daggers, a romantic embrace, monsters hunched over ladies in peril, incendiary escapes. The characters can look like and be literally anything.

Comic books are a sequential art form where art and writing come together to tell a story, and every illustration must serve the story and vice-versa. It needs to give you an incentive to keep being visually invested in whatever’s going on. Pulp literature stays dead on the page unless animated by your expectations; you may have the illusion of submitting to an experience, but really it’s you expending your imagination to otherwise inert signals. You have to provide the colors and flashy sequences and great meaning yourself, and as a trade, you get much more text to work with in novels than you do in comic books, where the dialogue and narration are fundamentally secondary to the visual, whether it’s a superhero punching stars or a monster covered in blood.

Each art form has its strengths and weaknesses, of course, which are only accentuated when each tries to be of a different kind. There's been pulp heroes that tried making the jump to comics, and comic heroes that made the jump to literature. There’s good, even great examples, of both, but even at their best, there's always some incongruity, because that's not the medium these characters were made for.

Superheroes are characters defined by being extraordinary. The pulp heroes are too, in many cases, distinguished from their literary antecessors because they were too uncanny and weird, a middleground between the folklore/fairy tale heroes and the grounded detective and adventure characters such as Sherlock, and the later far out superheroes. But they don’t necessarily have to be extraordinary. Sometimes they can very well just be completely ordinary characters, caught in bizarre circumstances and managing them as best they can, or simply using skills available to anyone who puts in effort to do good. Often enough the extraordinary comes in the form of a bizarre villain, or a tangled conspiracy, a monster from outside the world, a unique time period. The extraordinary is there, but it doesn’t have to be in the hero.

That is, I’d argue, the other big fundamental difference between the two. "Superhero” is a name we use to define a type of character who fits an extraordinary mold, a Super Hero. It’s a genre, it can be every genre, it’s a shared universe and a stand-alone epic. There are guidelines, structures at work here. Grids, page count, illustrators. The Big Two and their domain over the concept. Academic usage of the term, standards that rule the “genre”, when it is defined as a genre. Malleable and overpowering and adaptable and timeless as the superhero may be, it’s still bound by a certain set of rules and trends.

The term “pulp hero” is a term that we use to label just about any character that happens to star in something we recognize as “pulp fiction”, even if it isn’t literally written in pulp, even if it’s decades later. It’s a “metaphor with no brakes in it”. Superheroes can be pulp heroes. The most powerless, unlucky, homeless bum can be a pulp hero, there were entire subgenres of pulp stories based on homeless protagonists or talltale stories told in bars. The cruelest villain can be a pulp hero. Boris Karloff about to stab you with a knife named Ike IS a pulp hero, and so is a space slug on a warpath (look up what happened when Lovecraft and R.E Howard collaborated).

As much as I may dislike the idea of pulp heroes largely only existing in the shadow of superheroes nowadays...that is kinda appropriate, isn’t it? Of course they are going to live and make their homes in the place where the sun doesn’t shine. Where Superman and co would never go to.

Of course the 90s reboots of these characters failed. Because they tried turning these characters into superheroes, and they are not superheroes. They can visit those world, but they don’t belong in them, or anywhere else. They live in places where the light doesn’t touch, worlds much bigger and darker and more vast than you’d ever think at first glance, worlds that we still haven’t fully discovered (over 38% of American pulps no longer exist, 14% survive in less than five scattered copies, to say nothing of all pulps and pulp heroes outside of America). Not lesser, not gone, despite having every reason to. Just different, reborn time and time again. The shadow opposites.

In short: One is represented by Superman. The other is represented by The Shadow. There are worlds far beyond those two, but when you think of the concepts, those are the ones that things always seem to come back to.

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cryptonewsmanuelakanji · 4 years ago

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•REAL-TIME DATA: The market moves so fast that the information provided by some of these tools lag a few minutes behind. When you make a decision, it is most certainly too late.

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BRICK Token BRICK is the native token of Bricksestate built on the BSC BEP-20 network. BRICK is designed to empower the connection of real estates and properties through a fully transparent, community-owned platform on Binance Smart Chain.

The total BRICK token supply is 1,000,000.

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25% — IFO: 25% will be sold on Public sales.

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30% — Ecosystem Fund: 30% will be used for partners to build BricksEstate project and its ecosystem as a vault.

10% — Team: Team token will be vested and small portions would be released monthly for a period of 2 years.

10% — Reserve: 10% of BRICK will be reserved for future BricksEstate projects.

20% — Liquidity: 20% of BRICK will be used to provide liquidity including exchange pools.

Non-mutable- No new tokens will be created. BRICK total supply will remain the same forever.

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erikay1010 · 4 years ago

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BSCTRUST

Decentralized Launchpad on Binance Smart Chain

Introduction

What is BSCTrust?

BSCTrust is a Decentralized IDO platform built using the BSC Blockchain or Binance Smart Chain. Apart from that, this platform has some unique features that are rarely shared by other platforms, especially with BSCTrust, you can get initial priority access to quality low-cap Gems + Free NFT to top Stakers. The BSCTrust Platform is run by a third party, so that anyone including you can access or use this Platform at your own risk. like an example: if you bet money on the BSCTrust platform then you can also get a real return on investment. The BSCTrust platform provides a variety of services that are environmentally friendly and easy to access by anyone involved in it. this platform is very multifunctional bro, so hurry up and join this great project.

How does the BSCTrust System Work?

As we all know, that In decentralized finance or cryptoqurrency industry space, Investors fall victim to tapestries or various types of scams, which makes it a daunting task in finding solid low-capacity gems to invest in early. Therefore, BSCTrust aims to solve this problem by providing guaranteed access to its holders to invest early in low-cap gems with high potential on the Binance Smart Chain network.

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Total supply: 2 Million BSCTRUST

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BricksEstate is a community blockchain project that will allow investors access to a variety of real estates and properties owning full or parts of these assets through fractional ownership and be part of the ever-growing real estate industry. .,BricksEstate aims to offer clients a verifiable record of property data that would allow the parties to complete a deal who generally don’t know each other and to trust that the seller actually has true ownership of that property through both the blockchain immutable ledger and utilisation of NFT ownership certificates.

These powerful tools will allow all parties involved in a domestic or international transfer of property to see without any question or doubt that there are not any claims against the title of that property outside of the current purchase. ,Having an undisputed history of record is incredibly important, and while this may be possible without this technology, using blockchain can help make the process more efficient and secure than processes currently in place today.

Roadmap

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thelagendjz4 · 4 years ago

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BSCTRUST

Decentralized Launchpad on Binance Smart Chain

Introduction

What is BSCTrust?

How does the BSCTrust System Work?

Tokenomic BSCTrust

Total supply: 2 Million BSCTRUST

The 3% fee is distributed to all holders on every transaction

The 3% fee when selling is permanently added to the liquidity pool

For buy : https://bscscan.com/address/0x0684ffcc67792c50fdc303813c7b0c00d6aa6b99

Binance Smart Chain Launchpad

BSCLOCK.io (Liquidity and Team TOken keys for BSC)

NFT prizes

About BricksEstate

Roadmap

24th APRIL - 2021 - FIRST LAUNCHPAD : Unveiling of our First Launchpad

7th MAY - 2021 - BSCLOCK.io (Launched & Fully Audited) : Liquidity and Team Token Lock Platform for Binance Smart Chain.

14th MAY - 2021 - 2nd LaunchPad : Unveiling of our Second LaunchPad

29th MAY - 2021 - Third LaunchPad : Unveiling of our Third Launchpad

Conclusion

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Website: https://bsctrust.finance/

Telegram: https://t.me/BSCTrust

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bsctrust_fin

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BSC Wallet Address: 0x61e238964a4676C2AC8D830714A95618B3De942B

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pejuangcod · 4 years ago

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BSCTRUST

Decentralized Launchpad on Binance Smart Chain

Introduction

What is BSCTrust?

How does the BSCTrust System Work?

THE FEATURES OF THE BSCTRUST

3% fee to liquidity: BSCTrust will permanently allocate a 3% fee when selling to the liquidity pool.

Launchpad: BSCTrust is a Launchpad that allows potential project owners to get funding and support from professionals.

BSCLOCK.io: BSCTrust will ensure that tokens and liquidity are completely safe with the BSCLOCK platform.

NFT Rewards: Top stakers will get free NFT which will be distributed by BSCTrust directly.

Tokenomic BSCTrust

Total supply: 2 Million BSCTRUST

The 3% fee is distributed to all holders on every transaction

The 3% fee when selling is permanently added to the liquidity pool

For buy : https://bscscan.com/address/0x0684ffcc67792c50fdc303813c7b0c00d6aa6b99

Binance Smart Chain Launchpad

BSCLOCK.io (Liquidity and Team TOken keys for BSC)

NFT prizes

About BricksEstate

Roadmap

24th APRIL - 2021 - FIRST LAUNCHPAD : Unveiling of our First Launchpad

7th MAY - 2021 - BSCLOCK.io (Launched & Fully Audited) : Liquidity and Team Token Lock Platform for Binance Smart Chain.

14th MAY - 2021 - 2nd LaunchPad : Unveiling of our Second LaunchPad

29th MAY - 2021 - Third LaunchPad : Unveiling of our Third Launchpad

Conclusion

For More Information Click Links Bellow:

Website: https://bsctrust.finance/

Telegram: https://t.me/BSCTrust

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bsctrust_fin

Author: pejuang cod

My Bitcointalk Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2699227

BSC Wallet Address: 0x407920277aF25FEeCE0560e7e288397c93B2835c

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topicprinter · 5 years ago

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Hello All,I've been working on a project I've named "The Bahamas Stack" which is (5) open API software that work together as (1) system.Lets go back to how it started. In August 2016 I came across a video from a YouTube channel "Motherboard" and the name was "Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine" - If you would like to watch. This completely blew my mind and I couldn't believe this existed. I was at my best friend's (lets call him M.M) house at the time. M.M and another friend were watching American football on TV. I immediately turn to them and started day dreaming of many possibilities but they weren't really interested.August 2017 after completely submerging into the rabbit hole of bitcoin and blockchain.. at the time I am speaking about it to everyone that comes into my space and M.M called me he says "Hey bro, I just watched a video on Facebook with Nipsey Hussle talking about how he invested into a cryptocurrency", but honestly I did not care much to look further.One day M.M pulls up to my house and started talking about the Nipsey thing and how he came across another guy Ian Balina. He started teaching me about token metrics and how you can use a data driven grading system to grade Initial Coin Offerings. We decided any projects graded 85% or above we would give it a shot. Exactly (1) month later we invested in our first ICO which I think was ICON in September 2017. We did pretty well and participated in a few more before the year ended. We realized something over those few months, The Bahamas was never on the list of countries that weren't allowed to participate. In June 2018, we found out that a blockchain conference held by The Office of The Prime Minister of The Bahamas was happening on another island which was my home town. While there, we were on the balcony of my apartment waiting for an ICO to start but the conference had already started. I looked at M.M and I said "When will The Bahamas have a blockchain project on the list?", he responded "This is the beginning."Directly across from my apartment is a resort that has been closed for the past 5 years.I looked to M.M and I said "What if we purchased the resort and turn it into the first crypto resort in the world. Imagine all stores, restaurants, activities, everything accepting cryptocurrency". I said "Could we crowdfund the project as we are doing ICOs and have 50,000 people own a resort in The Bahamas?"Grand Lucayan ResortMore info: Newspaper ArticleMore info on this idea later.At this point our minds are going crazy.I said "How would the resort accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment?", "What would the merchants use to accept cryptocurrency and how would one exchange fiat to cryptocurrency on property?"I looked at him and said "What we need is a digital infrastructure for the resort, we need a ledger to record transactions in a decentralized format and also a way to facilitate transactions." M.M said "We need that for The Bahamas as a country not just a single resort."Boom!Idea was born. 'Why do it for a single property when we can do it for a country, small country - 400,000 population to be exact.' We were flooding our google search bars with queries on digital systems; ecosystems that included Identity, Payments, Data Sharing & Security. We came across the India Stack and thought the system was GREAT! We noticed (1) thing, they were having issues with security and what would be even better... ... DLT.FAST FORWARD. Lets talk about the project.March 2019 - M.M and myself pitched The Bahamas Stack to an offshore bank networking conference (private) and won the entrepreneur award which was a $10,000 cash prize. Hurricane Dorian hit The Bahamas and did some real damage. With efforts going on to rebuild The Bahamas, we decided now is the time to bring out the idea we have been building from June 2018.We found out about the Central Bank of The Bahamas prepping their new digital currency: Sand Dollar - Central Bank of The Bahamas Digital CurrencyHere we are.The Bahamas Stack is made up of (5) Layers:-Bio-metric Identity Database-Simplified Payments Addressing-Digital Interoperable System-Digital Locker-Electronic Consent LayerThe goal was to cover (4) main points. Creating a 1) Cash-less Layer, 2) Consent Layer, 3) Presence-less Layer & 4) Paper-less Layer. If you have been to The Bahamas and done any business you know how slow the processes are. Because of the outdated technologies, it creates incomplete data, thus allowing ineffective data sharing, which will create complex procedures for all.The Bahamas Stack PresentationThe Bahamas is still heavily paper based, also you must be present to conduct every single transaction. In 2019 I am unable to make transfers from my PayPal account to my bank account. Also, in our general elections.. SMHSee voters card: https://imgur.com/reGVzjSMy photo is physically taped on and can be changed very easily. All the information is written with a pen and it takes a few hours just to register for General Elections. This is just some of the basic information that prompted me to at least try. "Be the change that you want to see" and I am creating this post to get criticism.The exciting part is the data sharing features of the system; it will easily allow more ease of doing business.I created this animation to explain how we can use the system to address banking the unbanked community. Watch HereSo much has happened since I've started and I have so much more information to add to this. I don't want to make this post crazy long but hopefully this is sufficient information on what I am doing.This is simply an idea.Happy reading guys, here to answer any questions! Thank you!Update: I hope to use The Bahamas as a Proof of Concept but long term I would like expand throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.

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