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I'll just tell you up front — there's a fair amount of profanity in this one, so if that bothers you, or you read these at work (on your lunch hour, of course!) and your workplace has filters, well, there might be an issue.
Yes, I could have used some work-around with asterisks or whatever, I suppose. The plain truth is that I didn't because it irritates me beyond belief when people do that.
For example, every week I see some idiot ad on CBS where they say, "…William Shatner in Bleep My Dad Says." They don't really bleep anything; instead, the announcer actually says the word "bleep," which makes it even sillier. Lately they've raised the ante by having Shatner himself say, "And stay tuned for my new hit show, Bleep My Dad Says." Still just saying the word.
It's completely absurd. We all know the title of the show is Shit My Dad Says. The reason is because it's based on the Twitter feed of that name. CBS pays the guy a royalty. We should just all get over this as a nation and let the show's real name– that CBS paid a ridiculous amount of real money to get the rights to– be used on the air without anyone freaking out.
Therefore, this week, in an effort to help us get over our national neurosis, I will not be bleeping anything. Or typing silly shit like, uh, $#!+. (Our international readers, who are already over it, are probably already wondering why I bothered to spend this much time talking about this.)
So there's my pre-emptive preamble. Okay? Actual column follows. Oh, yeah, NSFW.
Not too long ago our other Greg did a really rather magnificent survey of all DC's January books. At one point, and I'm paraphrasing, Mr. Burgas opined that it's idiotic to introduce real-world problems into a superhero comic, because obviously the hero can't solve them and just comes off looking like an ineffectual tool.
This neatly sums up the problem I've had with a lot of superhero comics over the last decade or so.
Maybe even longer than that. Really, you can trace it back to the famous O'Neil/Adams run of Green Lantern/Green Arrow.
That run of books launched what comics historians like to call the "relevance" period of the Bronze Age, wherein superheroes sought to deal with real-world issues.
Look, the O'Neil-Adams stuff is rightly regarded as classic and groundbreaking and all of that. But the ugly truth is, it doesn't age well, and if you really look at the stories over the course of the run, the heroes are shown as being more and more clueless and ineffectual.
At the time, no one really noticed because we'd never seen anything like it. But reading the stuff today, the two things that leap out at you are that Green Lantern is a self-obsessed whiner and Green Arrow is a self-obsessed douchebag. They never actually solve any of the real-world problems they encounter– because they can't. O'Neil was smart enough to know that wouldn't work, even though one of the heroes has a magical wishing ring.
In fact, Denny O'Neil twisted himself into knots trying to get around that part of the Green Lantern premise, and his solution was to make Hal Jordan– who was, remember, chosen by the ring itself as the most fearless man on the planet– whiny, hesitant, and full of self-doubt, so that he often couldn't muster the willpower to make his ring work. Or else Hal thought using the ring was cheating. Or the Guardians said he couldn't use it. Always something.
Rereading those stories today, it struck me that the genuinely heroic characters to emerge are Black Canary, who is more interested in helping people than in winning ideological arguments, and Roy Harper, who despite his drug addiction manages to come off as more of a grown-up than his jerk mentor.
Not to go on and on about it. The point is that the genie was out of the bottle. It was now permissible to put superheroes into real-world situations, and writers did so with varying degrees of success. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
Sometimes it was even at official government request, or because a worthy charity partnered with a major comics publisher to try and get the word out to the Youth of Today about Something Important.
I'm not denigrating the effort and the craft that went into these stories, or suggesting that the creators' intentions weren't pure. But nevertheless, the stories themselves always end up looking faintly ridiculous. Even the ones starring Batman, who's about as close to a 'realistic' superhero as it's possible to get this side of the Punisher.
The bottom line is, no matter how beautifully done the "relevant, real-world" superhero story might be, you still have to sell the reader two ideas– first of all, that a guy in tights and a cape is believable in that setting, which is very nearly impossible, and secondly, that it's okay to have the story's resolution not actually resolve anything.
It's the second one that's the killer. Readers know that Batman isn't really going to solve the problem of the Bangkok child-sex trade or of Asian peasant kids getting blown up by land mines. We know this. No matter how skillfully the writers of these stories come at it, we know that by the end of the story, Batman (or the Teen Titans, or Spider-Man, or whoever) is going to be standing there saying something like, "I hope humanity realizes the horror of this [insert real-world problem here– drugs, gangs, etc.]… people need to wake up before it's too late!" I see that and invariably, my subconscious adds, "… but me, I'm going to go kick the crap out of some guy in a silly outfit robbing a bank. THAT, I can deal with. This is too hard."
Whether it's something as hamfisted as Spider-Man recounting where the bad man touched him or something harrowing like Andrew Vachss' Batman story about child prostitution, the end result is the same — a vague aura of embarrassment over having a superhero in that situation.
I can think of one time that this superheroes-in-the-real-world idea actually worked. Where I believed it absolutely. Alan Moore's Watchmen.
…but here's the thing. Alan Moore made the conceit of superheroes believable by subverting it. He ruthlessly extrapolated out all the different costumed-hero personality types we've grown used to over the years — the masked avenger of the streets, the hero beloved by the people, the tough government soldier, the hot babe in the skimpy outfit– and deconstructed them to the point that it was actually uncomfortable to read about them. Moore makes the point, over and over, that if you are putting on a mask and costume to fight crime then there's probably something wrong with you. And he doubled down on it by positing that if there really were people with super powers out there, they would immediately be seized upon by government for political purposes and generally just deform the shape of human history.
It's often brilliant and remarkably thorough in its extrapolations. But it's not very much fun. It's hard for us long-time readers of superhero comics to get our heads around that aspect of Watchmen — that superheroes, if they really existed, would be kind of creepy, and maybe a little pathetic.
It's interesting to note that when the comics were first coming out, Alan Moore said in interviews that he expected readers to latch on to Nite Owl.That he thought that would be the breakout character because Nite Owl is the least disturbing.
Instead, it was Rorschach. Who in many ways is the most disturbing character. Certainly, Moore intended Rorschach to be the most disturbed.
Why? Because he's a badass. Rorschach may be smelly and deranged and living off garbage, but he's still tough and scary and cool. He has most of the best lines in the book. "He's hardcore," is the expression I often see comics fans use when talking about him.
And that's what we want in a superhero story. Not "realism."
Dave Campbell, of the late and lamented Dave's Long Box, has a wonderful term for this phenomenon. He calls it the "Fuck Yeah!" moment.
We all know what a "Fuck Yeah!" moment looks like. It's that shining moment in a story when everything you like about a particular character crystallizes, where it's all right there and you realize Oh, yeah, there it is. You go.
Like in The Warriors, when Ajax whirls to face the leader of the Baseball Furies and snarls, "I'm gonna shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a Popsicle."
If you've seen the movie, you remember that up until that point Ajax is really kind of an asshole. He's not terribly bright. He is surly and rebellious and possibly even an admitted rapist. But in that moment, all that falls away. We love him and we are rooting for him to clean the Baseball Fury's clock. That's the power of the Fuck Yeah! moment.
Superhero stories, as I've explained above, are terrible at realism. But they excel at the Fuck Yeah! moment.
In fact, you could say that it's what they're designed to provide. You pick up a book about a super-strong guy who can fly, you're not there to see him address racism or industrial pollution. You want to see him throw a few cars around and see some damn bullets bounce off his chest.
The great superhero comic moments, the ones we remember most fondly, aren't realistic at all.
But I'm willing to bet, if you are honest with yourself about it, that every last one of them is a "Fuck Yeah" moment of some kind.
Certainly, mine are. Hell, that was what got me interested in superheroes in the first place, long ago. In 1966, when I saw Batman and Robin leap into the Batmobile, and Robin says, "Atomic batteries to power! Turbines to speed!" and Batman coolly responds, "Roger, ready to move out," and they go roaring out of the Batcave– I'm telling you, that was a total Fuck Yeah! moment for six-year-old me.
Might have been the very first one. (It was either that or Space Ghost bearing down on Metallus or Brak or someone, yelling "Time to use my HEAT FORCE!")
That exhilaration, that moment when you lean forward and something in the back of your head says, oh, it's ON! …that's what I fell in love with. That's when I dived into the superhero fantasy and never looked back.
I think that's true for most of us. And I think that even those creators who made their rep doing "realistic, grim-n-gritty" superhero stories know that too much realism is going to sabotage the whole enterprise.
Look, I've said this before, but when fans talk about wanting more "realism" in their superhero stories, I don't think that's what they mean. I think they want verisimilitude. Which is a ten-dollar word that translates to, more or less, "fake realism that I can sort of believe in even though I know it's silly."
We don't want actual realism in our superhero fiction. That brings all the uncomfortable truths that Alan Moore gave us in Watchmen. We just want enough nods to real life that we can get swept up in the fantasy without feeling like we need to apologize or make allowances.
The reason this all came to mind this week is because, the same day I read about Greg Burgas being annoyed with Superman trying to address real-world concerns of industrial pollution and organized labor, the Ghost Rider omnibus with all those great Jason Aaron stories arrived.
Reading it, with Greg's comments about Superman still swirling around in the back of my head, I realized something.
No matter what your superhero story might be, if it doesn't deliver a fuck yeah! in there somewhere, I'm probably not going to hang in there with it.
I have lots of books around here that offer realistic fiction. But for pure fist-pumping adrenaline-fueled adventure, there's really nothing to beat superheroes.
Understand, I'm not advocating a return to the simple-minded superheroics of the Golden Age or anything like that. Sure, you can tell superhero stories about adult concerns. Sure, there are all kinds of ways to talk about real-life problems using superhero characters as metaphor and all of that stuff. I'm not discounting that.
I'm just saying that, if you're writing a superhero story and you leave out the fuck yeah!…. well, then, what's the point of doing it as a superhero story at all? Because that moment is what superhero comics literally were built around.
Even Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams knew that, back in the day.
See you next week.
Rorschach is who comic book nerds want to be. Nite Owl is who we actually are.
"Are you man…or FIEND from HELL?"
Comic writers can be so poetic sometimes.
Yup…. you gots it. FUCK YEAH!
There's no real reason why superheroes can't enact real-world change… except that you would then have to follow through on it, and let the setting become more of an 'alternate reality' than it already is. If anything, the idea that superhumans don't directly alter and change the world around them is the truly absurd part of superhero comics.
But the people in charge of Marvel and DC want to maintain the illusion that, despite guys like Superman and Thor hanging around, that their stories are otherwise grounded in what we laughingly call the 'real world'.
There's no real reason why superheroes can't enact real-world change… except that you would then have to follow through on it, and let the setting become more of an 'alternate reality' than it already is.
I think that IS the reason… and we all know it's editorial mandate, so why go there at all? Find a different way to make the point, or maybe even a different genre. That's my feeling.
Fuck yeah!
That was what everyone should have started their comments with.
I agree with what you're saying, but I do think some of the "PSA" comics you show do help, in very little ways maybe, but they raise awareness. I read the Batman Ultimate Evil novel by Vachss, and I certainly wouldn't have been aware of the Bangkok child sex trafficking without it. And when I noticed that a certain product I was getting was made in Thailand, I quit buying it. As I said, it can be very little ways, but every little bit can help some.
Although you could also say that if you see that SUPERHEROES can't even solve these problems, what hope do NORMAL people have to fix things? and then have it lead to total inaction…
Great piece Greg and I can't disagree with your premise. Kirby, my favourite creator, revolutionized comics on the backs of such moments. Yet he always insisted on making his comics relatable, on an empathetic level, to the sentiments of his readers. He would insist on this verisimilitude you mention, and have his characters (and Stan Lee's) act as you or I might.
The only sense in which I diverge from your article comes with the unlikely fact that, though endorsing your premise, I yet love stories of comic book relevance. As foolish as these stories are I embrace them since they themselves are in embrace with their times. Comic book relevance are wonderful pop cultural mirrors of yesterdays hopes and fears. They are frozen artifacts from the least likely corner of our past that magnify in rich and absurd measures those those great moral perturbations (drugs) or more temporal sagas (Watergate) with which our collective narrative is written.
No matter what your superhero story might be, if it doesn't deliver a fuck yeah! in there somewhere, I'm probably not going to hang in there with it.
You nailed my reasoning as well about the reason New Teen Titans declined and X-Men didn't. I think it's not enough to have a Fuck Yeah! moment but also to deliver on it afterwards. Wolfman would have a lot of fuck yeah moments with cool team shots by Perez, but then the following panels would be the Deathstroke or Brother Blood handing their asses to them with ease like rank amateurs. For example Judas Contract had Dick debut his Nightwing persona, great Fuck Yeah! moment, followed by him being ineffectual as usual, getting captured, unable to beat up Deathstroke, unable to decisively beat or rescue Terra, and winning due to falling rubble. Superhero comments need fuck yeah! moments but also the follow through. All your examples, after the fuck yeah! moments, the heroes gave decisive beatdowns with serious badassery.
To continue on what I was saying before, some of those human interest superhero stories actually did have Fuck Yeah moments, but they'd be immediately followed by the heroes realizing the problem was bigger than they originally realized and unsolvable, and they often had to settle for a pyrrhic victory. The Fuck Yeah Moment is awesome but the Fuck Yeah Followup is crucial too.
T's comment about Dick Grayson being ineffectual as usual makes me realize that Dick as semi-competent apparently comes from the New Teen Titans. I mentioned (I think…) on Brian's post about Tim Drake that I was puzzled as to why Dick is so unconfident. (Now that I think of it, it was Greg's massive January DC post that you mention at the start of this, and why I didn't like B&R 17-19.) Now I see from T that it comes from NTT and Wolfman. And they STILL use it! Dick's been trained by Batman! He's been a superhero most of his life! Why is he so unconfident!!!!???
I like T's comment, though, that you have to follow through on the Fuck Yeah moment and deliver through on the awesome after. Although I suppose that here and there, a Fuck Yeah moment leading to the hero ending up NOT succeeding could work as a storytelling device, if used sparingly.
It also occurs to me that the term "Fuck Yeah" was used/popularized in the movie Team America, although I imagine it was probably in use prior to that.
I think some month this year, Brian should do a month of Fuck Yeah moments. He's entirely too nice a guy to do so, though.
Fuck yeah! (following Travis's advice)
These are the kind of scenes that you'll also find at TV Tropes under the rubric "Crowning Moment of Awesome". They've got plenty of similar moments from movies, television and other media, too.
And in their comics citations, you'll notice that the Batman gets more than just about anyone else. Seems about right.
My personal favorite in comics? Spider-Man 33, depicted above. In any medium? Probably Inigo Montoya finding the Six-Fingered Man.
Fuck yeah!
Guess I should have mentioned above (for the criminally deprived) that Inigo 's moment comes from William Goldman's The Princess Bride (both book and film), which is so great largely because it's stuffed full of Fuck Yeah! moments.
Actually, wasn't the Squadron Supreme 12-issue series built around just how fucked up things got when the heroes DID actually go out and start affecting realistic changes (then got so full of themselves that they started crossing lines they'd never considered crossing before then)?
There's all kinds of alternate reality takes that follow the whole "what would happen if heroes actually created real change": Squadron Supreme, Watchmen, The Authority, and tons of indie superhero titles. It's just the fact that you can't do it to a mainstream superhero universe that causes most of the problems, and why books like GLGA and JMS's Superman can fall flat on their face so easily.
It's notable that Superman keep coming up so often. He is the poster child for "Why do bad things still happen in a world with superheros?"
It's ironic that Greg Hatcher mentions the Golden Age as the period he doesn't want comics to regret to in regards his criticism of relevance, since the Golden Age had all superheroes fighting the Axis, the greatest real world evil of them all. And Marvel's Silver Age had lots of heroes fighting communists. So real world relevance is something that is with superhero comics long before GLGA.
What really started in the 1970s wasn't relevance in superhero comics, but the growing conviction that the world's problems are unsolvable. Whether you're super or not.
That's a great point. The first year of Superman stories had him solving all types of problems from slumlords, to wars, to urban renewal. The difference was that there was no impotence issues, he was portrayed as capable of fixing these world problems, it's a naive viewpoint, sure, but at least the stories were exciting.
Travis, yes Wolfman is the reason why the status quo for depicting Dick Grayson is impotence, semi-competence and self-doubt.
Interesting. It's utterly true that we should expect heroes to do nothing but rescue us from certain perils (fire, car crash, kitten up a tree). The rest of the shit is our problem.
I find it interesting during the 1970's, comic strips and comic books had often started to deemphasize the galactic aspect of their stories to try to ground them somewhat. Denny O'Neil's Green Lantern/Green Arrow with its attempted social relevance serves as an example of this. They deemphasized the cosmic and galactic aspect of the series.
This occurred around the late 1960's and early 1970's when adventure films and prose literature had started to turn away from the intentional camp of the 1960's to more relatively grounded, "socially relevant" fare (Shaft, Billy Jack, The French Connection, Dirty Harry, Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Death Wish, the various Vietnam vet vigilante films and novels such as Zebra Force, etc.). Around that time, the Doc Savage film flopped, while Tarzan and Godzilla went away. (Some of the Godzilla films also featured some rather dated attempts at relevance, too.)
However, while Green Lantern deemphasized its galactic aspects in the early 1970's, then Star Wars came out in 1977, reversing this trend away from grounded fare. Rather obviously based on the Flash Gordon serials, Star Wars stood as least grounded as one could get. Though more grounded adventure films held on for roughly another ten years, possibly due to Star Wars success as a rerelease in the 1990's, they have ended up marginalized. In fact, you sometimes hear of people saying that other than Christian Bale and Zorro, they find films with a nonpowered hero or one who does not wear an elaborate costume boring!
In fact, I seriously doubt that the upcoming Green Lantern film or its prospective sequels will try to mimic O'Neil's social relevance.
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My all-time favorite "relevant" comic is the mid 90s issue of Green Arrow where Anarky talks him into blowing up a gun plant. I'm pretty sure it's been retconned but it's just a surreal read.
I suspect the implication of the DCU is that heroes have more pressing concerns on their power levels to deal with. But I have my doubts that the society is the same as ours. That UN summit on pollution is going to play out somewhat differently because the oceans aren't just a natural resource but a sovereign entity.
Greg, as usual, you absolutely GET IT. This also crystalizes why the new Hollywood trend of making superheroes "realistic" isn't working for me. I DON'T CARE if Captain America's costume doesn't look like a standard WWII issue uniform with all sorts of pockets, straps and pouches. I just want to see him toss the shield around, fight the Red Skull and save the world. Are a few live-action "FUCK YEAH!" moments too much to ask for?
And "verisimilitude" was Richard Donner's keyword for the first Superman movie, which goes a long way towards explaining why that film works so well. It introduces just enough real world elements to help you buy into the fantasy, but not so many that your suspension of disbelief comes crashing down.
Very good column. Especially enjoyed the shout out to Dave Campbell. Dave's Long Box is still my favorite
blog of all time. Some great shit there including "FUCK YEAH!"
Anybody who's never read Dave's Long Box should google it and go start reading, you won't regret it.
Not sure what happened to Dave. I haven't seen any blogging anywhere from him in a couple of years.
Ah, The Warriors – just re-watched it recently. What a great fucking movie…
Great column by the way. You pretty much nailed it on the head, although I have to wonder: even though I'm as much of a super-hero junkie as the next guy, why are stories like the Watchmen still some of my favorite?
Whenever I think of a "fuck yeah" moment, that Avengers panel you posted above is the first thing that comes to mind. I loved that storyline.
Fuck yeah! That's why a series like Secret Six, which has just enough 'realism' in it to sustain interest, strong character interaction and dialogue, and great FUCK YEAH moments, is so awesome.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Gerard Jones's cringeworthy Batman: Fortunate Son, in which Batman takes on his most nefarious foe of all: Rock and roll!
Just for the sake of balance, some of us actually love Wolfman/Perez's New Teen Titans and think Dick Grayson is an awesome hero just as he is.
I also think that if all superhero comics are "Fuck Yeah" moments, it's devolved into something no better than WWE smackdown. I come for those moments but also for the characters, as flawed as they might be.
Fuck yeah, that was a great column!
'Dark Knight' and 'Watchmen' are both deeply schizophrenic works. Each deconstructs the whole idea of super-heroes pretty definitively, yet both are totally overflowing with 'Fuck yeah!'
I must mention that Nite-Owl has his own 'Fuck yeah!' moment, albeit a low-key one: rescuing all those people from the tenement fire. My favorite moment in the whole series is when Laurie asks him if he's ok up there on top of Archie and he just says 'I'm fine,' but seeing his face you know he's waaaay better than fine.
Maybe the low-key equivalent of 'Fuck yeah!' is 'Damn straight.' And Graeme Burk is right, there's nothing wrong with the Wolfman/Perez Dick Grayson. One of my favorite one-and-done issues ever is 'Who Is Donna Troy,' where Dick, in about the most low-key way possible, proves he's a good man and a great detective. Damn straight.
Fascinating as always, Greg, and I thoroughly agree. I especially like your comment about the desire for verisimilitude, not realism. What I want in comics are stories that are 'real' to the situations and settings therein, not necessarily real to my world.
Sure, something like Watchmen, that specifically sets out to examine super heroes in the real (our) world needs realism, but in your average issue of Superman I just want realism consistent with the world of Superman as previously depicted, which is distinctly not the same as our world (first and foremost being the presence of a super powerful alien from Krypton).
Please let me know what the Fuck Yeah moments for Batman were in Dark Knight because I don't remember any. The story was more like the stories Hatcher described were the whole point was to highlight the heroes ineptitude, impotence, and ultimate realization that he couldn't change anytrhing in the big picture. Unless you mean fuck yeah moments for the Joker, in which case I agree. HE had plenty.
I also think that if all superhero comics are "Fuck Yeah" moments, it's devolved into something no better than WWE smackdown. I come for those moments but also for the characters, as flawed as they might be.
No one is saying that a work should be all Fuck Yeah moments. You're presenting a false dilemma:
It's not like the only two choices are WWE smackdown like a Liefeld book or Hallmark Channel Movie of the Week like New Teen Titans. There are plenty of other choices that are a mix of the two.
Fuck Yeah!
>> Please let me know what the Fuck Yeah moments for Batman were in Dark Knight because I don't remember any. <<
Batman defeating the gang leader in the mud, Batman's full-page appearance on horseback, Green Arrow making his impossible shot, Batman clocking Superman. Among others.
Oh I totally agree. My bad, thought he was talking about the movie because I'm now used to the graphic novel being called The Dark Knight Returns.
Good point about relevant comics, Greg, but doesn't it apply equally to non-relevant comics? Every major act of destruction is over with and forgotten in a couple of issues. Every mad-scientist plot is foiled with no lasting effect on the world. Every villain is captured and imprisoned and escapes to torment our heroes again. Every death (with the possible exception of Uncle Ben) is retconned out of existence.
I'm not sure how anyone takes the umpteenth defeat of Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, the Joker, Ultron, et al. seriously. I don't. The genre seems pretty tapped out to me. The only superhero comics that seem to work are ones like SECRET SIX where the characters don't have the power or desire to save the world.
Incidentally, the best "Fuck Yeah!" moment in GL/GA was the final panel of the final issue, #89, when Green Lantern destroys a fleet of airplanes and says, "Send me the bill." So it's possible to have such moments in "relevant" stories.
I figured revelshade was talking about the comics, T. But I figured you figured he was talking about the movies.
P.S. I'd say DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and WATCHMEN (the comics, not the movies) are a perfect blend of real-world relevance and superhero escapism. Which is why they're the perfect comics. Discuss.
I think it comes down to balance. All the bad stuff in Watchmen took place over decades. For the DCU, it's about an average month.
Good point about relevant comics, Greg, but doesn't it apply equally to non-relevant comics? Every major act of destruction is over with and forgotten in a couple of issues. Every mad-scientist plot is foiled with no lasting effect on the world. Every villain is captured and imprisoned and escapes to torment our heroes again. Every death (with the possible exception of Uncle Ben) is retconned out of existence.
Not equally, and here's why.
Everything else you mention as an example is something that is a result of bad or lazy writing. It's fixable. But having Superman run headlong into a situation where he has to confront industrial pollution and corrupt corporate executives who think it's easier to pay the fines than to stop poisoning the wetlands… that's an un-fixable premise. All through the story you're going to have to find reasons why Superman can't actually solve the problem even though he's Superman and routinely addresses problems that are physically harder to deal with. We've seen him plug live volcanoes, straighten up and sometimes even rebuild collapsing skyscrapers at super-speed, etc., etc. So to suddenly have him balk at getting toxins out of a swamp makes him less than a hero AND less than super. The problem's built-in. It's the same as Denny O'Neil's Green Lantern thing– the whole story becomes an exercise in figuring out the answer to the question, "How am I going to dial down the powers to a place where the hero still has to struggle?"
All of Grounded is plagued with this. The thing is filled with writer's work-arounds to explain away why Superman's not doing stuff he should be easily capable of doing, in order to make points no more subtle than the average "The More You Know" PSA spot on NBC.
If you want to tell stories about real-world issues in a superhero story, you have to do it as metaphor. You have to do it the way Kurt Busiek talks about them in Astro City, or the way Brad Bird did in The Incredibles. The Incredibles had all sorts of stuff to say about marriage and family and mid-life crisis and how to be an adult but it managed to do it within the fantasy context it was in– and they still remembered to bring the Fuck Yeah! Like when Dash is running away from the island guards, or the family's fighting the monster robot. It echoed the real world we live in, but was still firmly in the superhero genre and it never broke the believability bubble. That's what I'm talking about.
Mr. Hatcher, do you find it interesting that, as I pointed out above, just a few years after GL/GA ended its original run, adventure films, which had turned "relevant" as that run of GL/GA had, suddenly turned to the type of galactic "irrelevant" Lensman style adventure that GL had followed previously?
Man, i wish i could beat people up as good as Nite Owl…
P.S. I'd say DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and WATCHMEN (the comics, not the movies) are a perfect blend of real-world relevance and superhero escapism. Which is why they're the perfect comics. Discuss.
They also leave their worlds in very different shapes to what they began with, something superhero ongoings are loathe to do.
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Setting tarps up correctly.
Fellas, love camping go at least 3 times a year, my wife and I allways argue when setting up, on how to set up a tarp. We have a 6 x 5mtr tarp and I never seem to get it right, end up with pools of water bending tarp. Now I would appriciate any tips on getting this right. Polky
Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
I'll see if I can find a few old photos for you.
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Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
I have been doing this for years. I erect tarp using ALL eyelets for poles. Extra strong springers. Then I use a ' spreader bar ' ( square ) across the middle of the tarp and sometimes when I use the 10mtr x 7mtr tarp I use 2 spreaders. I also drill a hole in the middle of the spreader and place a pole there for extra support.
Further, I utilize a mini spreader ( circular ) at 45 degrees to every corner, this strengthens the whole complex and I also drop the corners down a few degress from the rest of the tarp, I also make " hips " in it.
There is another option of buying a directional plastic water diverter and plonking it on a pole where the tarp seems to be sagging or need assist.
If you are not familiar with this terminology or ideas, I can draw a pic. Just ask.
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Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
This is the best way i have found to set up a tarp.
Lay the tarp where you want it to be.
Knock all the pegs in and attatch the ropes to the pegs.
Start from the centre and put your poles in place and work towards the edge.once you have everything in place start from the centre and work your way out adjusting the height of the poles to get everything tight.
With a tarp of that size it would be a good idea to use a ridge pole as this will help heaps.
Here are a couple of pics of our setup
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Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
I've seen Phils setup and let me tell ya, that sucker ain't falling down.
If i take the small tarp to just cover the tent then i usually try and use main corners poles, 1 each side in the middle, and one in the middle each end. I run a ridge bar down the middle of it and zip tie my fluro onto it. (Tarp size 4m x 3m)
Similar thing if i take the big tarp, but then i use every second eyelet down each side and 2 ridge bars down the centre. Drop the corners, and also run a pole in the middle of the ridge bars. The only problem is it takes forever to setup alone.
Lately i've been using just the smaller tarp over the tent.
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Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
Gday polky
like Phill said spreader bar is the go for water and the right pegs to suit the soil.
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Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
spreader bar only way to go.
i had 30 x 24 tarp and used 50 mm ppvc pipe joined with t pieces. 3 pieces 8 ft long. In the t piece that was open and faced the ground ,after they were joined, i put a pole.
The point of the pole would sit up inside the t piece.
I have been up to double island in 25 kn s/e and never blew down.
Always used large plastic sand pegs, and pole in every hole, and all ropes springed.
There are no half measures
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Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
You are spot on Seahorse a pole in every hole and make sure all ropes have springs.
Cheers Dave.
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Polky, pics as promised.
As the others have stated, use of a spreader bar and poles in every hole will be the best.
A cheaper version of using springs is go to a tyre place and ask for some old tyre tubes. Cut them into strips bout 50mm wide. These have worked for me for many years. If one breaks it doesn't break the bank to replace.
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Fellas I appricate the replys, Iam off to buy spreader bar and more poles ropes and springs. Then I,am going to practice putting tarp up in back yard, so stay tuned, to see the photos of my result, Wags thanks for the pics, thats how my lady wants our tarp to look. Polky.
Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
As 2DknB said set all your pegs and ropes with spings on every rope.
Lay all your poles out as well, 7'6"poles for the perimeter 9' for the ridge bar.I have marked all my poles with ink pen so I can quickly set them at the right height
I do the 4 corners first. Then my ridge pole . At that point your tarp is essentially up , then its a simple matter to set and tension the rest of the poles and ropes
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Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
What was the 1st thing I did after reading this post? Down to the new camping shop at loganholme to buy a spreader bar. My wife and I said to each other " But that's all we are buying" Yeah, right!! That's the second time we've visited a camping shop in this holiday break without any change of $170.00 ( both times) so blaming you blokes makes me feel a whole lot better
Thanks and have a happy new year!
Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
I never bothered with springs..used push bike tubes..easier to pack away and no corrosion problems and work a treat
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- Brisvegas
Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
Good question Scalem,
I have tried to figure it and although I thought that working out 45* from top would have been ok, it seems that less than this is better.
When the tarp edge is about 6ft high I put the pegs out 5ft from the base of where the pole would be.
In reality and if one wants to get technical, when you attach the spring to the peg and then the rope to the top of the pole, the angle at which the spring pulls on the peg would be 90*. maybe ????? could be 87* or 95* ??
I think we need a tarp and tent erecting M & G, or maybe something along the lines of, " Campsite Setup M & G ".
One could setup a tent site using different design tarps, ground sheets, tents, kitchen areas, ensuites and all sorts of clever ideas that each individual uses whilst camping in our great outdoors.
One of my best is using shade cloth for a ground sheet, it certainly lets the sand drift back through and keeps ya feet clean. I also have an extra long piece of shade cloth that wraps around 5/8ths of my tarp area creating a " wall '. I place the tarp poles on the edges and inside the shade cloth and just poke a hole over the top of the tarp poles and this creates a Marquee type of effect. But it allows the wind to come through and also provides a certain amount of privacy for those crowded days at Waddy Point etc. Must remember to take pics one day of the complete set-up, or even better a ' step by step " erection pictorial.
One more hint, I only use ' D " form bar..... RIO..... as pegs. I make them about 40cm long and they are the best. They hold soft sand, dirt and will hammer into harder ground with ease and the cost is......0. Just check out a building site.
Cheers Phill
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Re: Setting tarps up correctly.
what can i say other than a pole a hole.
a tarp of that size i would use 3 spreaders in an "A" formation.
i also like at least 2 ropes loose over the whole lot for the larger winds. (slows parachuting)


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VCY Drops Porter's Radio Program Over Dominion Theology
As we had been reporting lately, Janet Porter of Faith 2 Action had become increasingly involved in "dominion" theology, the idea that Christians are called to take complete control over every aspect of human life in order to bring about the return of Christ. There is something called "7 Mountains" theology that sets out seven specific aspects of the national culture that Christians are supposed to retake and this "7 Mountains" theology was at the very center of Porter's May Day prayer rally at the Lincoln Memorial over the weekend.
Organizers had been preparing for as many as 8,0000 to attend but no more than a few hundred actually showed up, leading speakers to plead with those in attendance to make sizable donations to help defray the $70,000 cost of putting on the event.
Today, I was listening to VCY America, which carries Porter's daily radio program, in order to hear how she would spin this epic failure ... but instead of hearing Porter's program begin at 2:00 pm as scheduled, I heard instead a statement from VCY America's Vic Eliason announcing that they would no longer be carrying or supporting her program due to her increasing involvement with dominion theology:
Because of the long standing of Faith2Action on VCY America, which has provided satellite services, air time, production, and line fees without charge, we know there will be many who will question its discontinuance.
VCY has been wrestling for months with the drift of the program toward "dominion theology" and ecumenism.
The following links bring up articles which describe the issues in detail
The Coalescing of the Religious Right with Apostolic Dominionism
May Day Prayers: What Repentance?
This has not been an easy decision, but a line has been crossed that VCY America cannot ignore. Faith2Action has chosen to go in a direction that is not consistent with the biblical position of VCY America.
Once the message began and I realized its significant, I scrambled to record it and managed to capture a good portion of the announcement as Elisaon explains that they had repeatedly warned Porter about her dominionism to no avail, thus forcing them to sever their ties with her and her program:
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Climate Camp How to Deliver Direct Action Workshops Workshop in Oxford
We have space for some more people to attend a small weekend workshop delivered by Seeds for Change, on HOW TO DELIVER direct action trainings for climate activism. The idea is that people come to this, get trained up on how to give trainings on direct action tactics, talking to the media/cops, some legal stuff, quick consensus decision making, maybe tripod usage etc… So that they can then go off and train people up in the run up to the Camp for Climate Action (14-21 August).
Cambridge GM Crop Trial - meeting (2nd April) & protest walk (14th April)
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Leeds ABC have produced a new 'Writing To Prisoners' laflet. Basic text follows, and it can also be downloaded as a PDF, or a hard copy can be obtained by sending an SAE to Leeds ABC at the address below.
Anti-Trident Protest at Atomic Weapons Establishment - 19th March
Almost thirty demonstrators braved the chilly early morning weather at the gates of the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, Berkshire - Britain's nuclear bomb factory - to protest against Parliament's decision last Wednesday to renew Trident, and against the construction and development work that has been going on all the while at the site, even before any democratic decision has been made on the future of Britain's nuclear warheads. Particularly noticeable is the work on the Orion laser, which is designed to circumvent the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and facilitate the development and testing of a new generation of nuclear warheads, in contravention of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Friday 8th June 2007 - International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change and the G8
Direct Action for Climate Justice - Resistance is Self Defense!
We all know the terrifying statistics: a million species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Greenland and Antarctica melting, droughts, floods, famines ? the G8 have had over 30 years to address climate change and only succeeded in providing trillions in subsidies to the very industries that are destroying our planet and our future. And while the G8 continues to line their pockets, island states disappear and hundreds of thousands die as a result of the freak weather conditions caused by their irrational and uncontrollable obsession with never ending economic growth.
Camp Titnore needs your help!
Camp Titnore near Worthing in Sussex could do with some committed campaigners to come and lend a hand. Coming up to a year in residence (May 28) the camp could do with some new blood. Be part of group aiming to stop Tescos and other scum-bags trash one of the last remaining ancient woodlands on the Sussex coastal plain.
14 Landrovers covered in Paintstripper
Fourteen 4x4s were covered in painstripper in a Land Rover Dealership near Hereford in an action against climate change. Slogans were also sprayed while the vehicles were left to ruin.
This action was taken to warn any dealership specialising in these cars, that they are a target. Driving one of these vehicles is the equivelent to leaving the TV on for 32 years, cars like this must be stopped in their tracks.
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Climate Camp Meeting this weekend in Bristol, and Film
Last year saw 600 people gather in the shadow of Drax Power Station for the ten day Camp For Climate Action. This weekend in Bristol is the next national planning meeting, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th March. The venue is Barton Hill Settlement which is 5 min from Lawrence Hill Station.
concrete lock-on tips (following Parliament Square blockade)
If they took only 20 mins to demolish each lockon then your concrete doesn't sound up to scratch. Don't mean to brag but a similar lock on I once built took them 6 hours to demolish with jack hammers and angle grinders. In future you need to include some metal reinforcing mesh or crinkly rebar rods, either offcuts of the proper stuff from builders skips or sawn up supermarket trolleys are ok. Including metal mesh serves not only to bind the concrete together but it spreads the shockwave from jack hammers throughout the material rather than allowing it to be concentrated at the chisel tip. Also good to include some short lengths of blue 6mm rope which prevents the forces of darkness from being able to separate the chunks of fragmented concrete which really winds them up. The other really important things are to use freshly bought cement, be sure your concrete mix is very thoroughly mixed - absolutely no sandy or cementy streaks visible - and then poured in less than 20 mins or so and when pouring it, don't do it all in one go but ram or tamp (jiggle and shake) it in thoroughly into the container in stages with the end of a bit of 4 x 2. Your concrete looks like it has voids in it which is always a considerable weakness. Good luck with future courageous actions.
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Titnore tree protest camp appeals for help (& audio report)
SPRING is in the air, the birds are singing in the trees and Titnore Woods in Sussex is once again a lovely place to be...
With the end of a tough winter, the protest camp near Worthing has today appealed for help in a spring offensive aimed at making sure it is in fighting fit shape as its first anniversary and another rebel summer approach.
ID-DAY - National Day of Action against ID CARDS 26/3/07
Is a national day of autonomous action against ID cards and the Database state.
Across the country people will be protesting against the opening of the new ID 'enrolment' centres.
GM Potatoes to be grown in Cambridge - campaign meeting, 13th March
The German multinational chemical company, BASF, has been granted permission to plant genetically modified potatoes at NIAB in Cambridge from the end of this month.
BASF were forced to pull out of these exact same trails in Ireland last year because they could/would not comply with conditions imposed by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency. Clearly the safety rules being set by the British government are sufficiently lax so as not to inconvenience the company. No such crop trails have taken place in this country in the last three years, after massive public pressure forced the government and the companies involved in the technology to back down.


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With dozens of states having launched or expanded early childhood education for its neediest three- and four-year-olds, the pre-kindergarten plans proposed by the governor and now by legislative leaders are as welcome as they are overdue.
The governor's budget calls for a modest start that would place 4,000 children in pre-kindergarten classrooms by 2019. Senate President Donald Williams and House Speaker Brendan Sharkey would spend $200 million over 10 years to provide 50,000 three- and four-year-olds in the poorest communities a "high quality" pre-kindergarten program.
There has been considerable research indicating that pre-kindergarten programs lead to later success in school by easing children into a school setting, acquainting them with numbers and expanding their vocabularies. These programs could help reduce the achievement gap between the state's rich and poor, white and minority students and they represent an investment in education, rather than in the products of inadequate education, unemployment, welfare and incarceration.
Pre-kindergarten is not to be confused with day care. Teachers would be certified and programs would have to be accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children within three years of being funded. There would be a teacher for every 10 pre-kindergarten students.
But there are questions about how the more ambitious plan would be paid for. Half of the $200 million would be bonded for capital costs like classroom renovation and the other $100 million, for operating expenses and salaries, would be obtained by raiding the Tobacco and Health Trust Fund. This fund contributes more than $100 million a year to the state and all but about $12 million of it already goes into the general fund. It comes from the proceeds of a suit against the tobacco industry won by Connecticut and 45 other states to defray health care costs incurred by tobacco users.
The $12 million is supposed to be spent on anti-smoking and other programs promoting good health and Sen. Williams has creatively justified its diversion by characterizing early childhood education as a great investment in the intellectual, educational and even physical health of our children.
So in the spirit of that creativity, we would suggest an alternative means of payment. Take the $200 million or even a healthy part of it, say $150 million, from the anticipated state surplus and spend it on early childhood education for those 50,000 kids.
The idea at present is for a healthy percentage of the surplus, estimated at $500 million or more, to go into the severely depleted rainy day fund for the next financial crisis and that's as it should be.
But the governor and a growing cadre of legislators this election year want to spend $150 million on a $55-per-person refund for taxpayers.
This is so clearly a boondoggle that we have heard little argument from its proponents that it is anything else. So why not take that $150 million or, if our long-term economic prospects will allow, the entire $200 million and spend it instead on the education of 50,000 of our poorest children? This would eliminate more bonding to be repaid with interest by the children we're educating now and save the tobacco fund from further looting.
As we have previously pointed out, the governor's election year gimmick will buy little more than a night on the town for the family at McDonald's or Burger King. A sum even as large as $150 million can be largely wasted when it's given away in $55 increments but it can mean a great deal when it's set aside to help pay for the educational enrichment of our state's littlest and poorest children.
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The trophy for Friday's rivalry game between Etiwanda and Summit.
It was a tough debut for Etiwanda football coach Kevin Davis.
The Eagles were completely throttled by a quality Norco team 66-13. The good news is that's only one game and Davis thinks his team will learn from its mistakes which were many.
The Eagles need to regroup in a hurry though. Looming on Friday is the "Fight for 15" rivalry game against Summit at Miller High School.
Davis is still optimistic though.
"The good thing is that there was no finer-pointing. Everyone took ownership for their own mistakes. In the past there might have been some of that and bickering on the sidelines. But everyone came in the next day on time and ready to go."
Davis says his team went in confident but not necessarily overconfident or cocky.
It was just a matter of things steamrolling out of control. There were seven turnovers, beginning with the opening kickoff.
Davis is also glad to have a game in hand to iron out the problem spots where as Summit was idle last week.
"Having one last week will probably help us more than not having one will hurt them," he said.
With Summit boasting several Division I players, most notably RB Stephen Carr, a USC commit, and DB Damian Alloway, the Eagles will again have their hands full. Their showing this week will be a great indicator as to whether this team can live up to expectations or it will be like those in the past who have underachieved.
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Christmas came a little early for Ganesha football coach Don Cayer.
Jaylon Dean has transferred from Sunkist League champion Kaiser to Ganesha, Cayer confirmed.
The CIF has already ruled him eligible for the coming season. Dean, a 5-foot-10, 225 pounder, is expected to make an immediate impact.
"He will be a difference maker, especially on defense because that'swhere he has played the most," Cayer said. "We have some skill players on offense but he gives us more options there.
Dean was an All-League selection last year on defense with 53 tackles and four sacks. Cayer says he will use him on both sides of the ball.
"We don't get a transfer of this caliber that often," he said. "We're talking an All-League kid on a first place team. We're excited to have him."
Ganesha opens the season at Mark Keppel on Aug. 28.
The SkyHawks football team enters the 2015 season with four players sporting Division-I offers, including Damian Alloway's list of 16. Had he not committed to USC nearly two years before he could sign a letter of intent, running back Stephen Carr would presumably have more than five scholarship offers.
After becoming the first school other than Kaiser to win a Sunkist League championship – Summit claimed consecutive league titles in 2011 and 2012 – the SkyHawks have finished second the last two seasons. But talent hasn't been much of an issue, according to head coach Nick Matheny.
"With our three guys at the skill positions, we're pretty loaded," Matheny said. "But we were talented last year too and we were only able to pull out six wins."
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Are you a boys basketball player in their senior year of high school or at a junior college who feels they have been overlooked? Well, there is an event coming up that will interest you.
Diamond Ranch High School will host a college showcase designed to hook prospective players up with college programs. It will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. on Friday and is open to athletes from all schools.
Players will each compete in at least three games in order to showcase their skills. They will also get an update on new academic regulations that will directly affect them.
A dozen or so college coaches from NAIA, Division II and Division III schools will be on hand. There will also be some reps from community colleges.
The cost is $50.
Last year 10 players who participated got college spots.
For more information see www.TheCollegeExpo.org or call (909) 396-0151.
I really enjoyed working with Ed Castro (who passed away Tuesday night) during his time at the Daily Facts. Since the Sun and Daily Fats both cover Redlands and we're the same company, we'd trade information, coordinate coverage and sometimes even be at the same events. That included several REV football games last year.
It also included the Arrowhead Christian championship game and we shared a motel room in Nipomo. That one didn't end too well. I was leaving early on Sunday morning, while Ed was going to stay in the area to watch football with some friends. He awoke on Sunday to find me, about ready to leave, and a maintenance person mopping up after I flooded the bathroom (don't ask). Ed would only give me a hard time about it when I brought it up. But he was a good guy who didn't seem bothered.
Ed was a good guy who worked hard, cared about sports in Redlands had a great sense of humor and was very humble. He could be a bit insecure, because while he covered the day-to-day events in Redlands, I would come in and cover the bigger events, and he would refer to me, with perhaps a bit of sarcasm as "The A Team." Ed, you were the real A team.
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The following are tips on how to deal with orangery roof mistakes. You'll be surprised at how simple some issues can be fixed.
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The materials that you use for your roof should match its slope. A mismatch will simply lead to water penetration since there will be gaps that cannot be fully covered. For instance, if you're using tile shingles, wood, or even asphalt then make sure that you have 12 units of run for every 4 units of rise in a slope. Different materials suit different slopes.
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Another problem area with your roofing is the roof valleys and the valley flashing. If they are improperly secured or improperly installed, you will see a lot of leaks. Make sure to use enough sealant when installing flashing. Remember also that they should be layered with the shingles. Note that the U-shape should be facing the valley.
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Students will be educated on the symptoms and severity of alcohol overdose and encouraged to call 911 when an alcohol overdose is suspected. UMD students will be involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of this education.
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The SBA's Bronx Women's Business Resource Center provides individualized, comprehensive guidance to small business owners and future entrepreneurs. The mission of the HPEDC/Women's Business Resource Center is to empower people by assisting them to become economically independent through self-employment. The services are offered in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. We seek to assist women and minorities who own or aspire to own a business in or around the Bronx, to gain the tools, resources, and confidence to succeed in their entrepreneurial ventures. WBRC offers one-on-one technical assistance, business workshops, access to capital, computer training, and long-term entrepreneurial training. WBRC is also part of the Business Outreach Center Network with offices in all 5 boroughs and Newark, NJ, and is one of the Entrepreneurial Assistance Program Center (EAP) in New York State. Sponsored by the Empire State Development Corporation, the EAP consists of 60 hours of intensive entrepreneurship training and over 15 hours of hands-on counseling. The WBRC is sponsored in part by SBA, Empire State Development, BOC Network and HPEDC. SBA's funding is not an endorsement of any products, opinions, or services. All SBA programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.
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The Brooklyn Army Terminal [BAT]/NY City Biosciences Initiative is in the process of developing near term space for research, laboratory and bio-manufacturing uses. Located along the Brooklyn waterfront - at 140 58th Street and 1st Avenue in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn - with easy access to Manhattan, Phase I at BAT will be anchored by several academic research and commercial bioscience operations. Phase I is the conversion of 300,000 square feet for research and bio-manufacturing space. Further expansion space exists at the 4.0 million square foot complex. Current tenants include clinical testing laboratories. BAT is located within an Empire Zone which provides certain as-of-right tax benefits.
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The Brooklyn Public Library Business Library has a reference collection of more than 100,000 volumes, a circulating collection of 30,000 books, internet access, electronic resources, 800 magazines and newspapers, and real estate data. The Business Library provides industry and demographic data, investment information, business directories and free electronic resources available remotely with library card, as well as access to the internet computers. It also houses the Small Business Information Center, which includes sample business plans, books on starting and advancing a business, and free counseling with SCORE, the Service Corps of Retired Executives. The Library regularly hosts educational programs and Wednesday morning tours at 10:15 AM. Call telephone reference at 718-623-7000 option 3 for information or to be added to the Library's mailing list for educational seminars.
The Brooklyn Chamber is a non-profit business assistance membership organization. It offers networking events, forums with government officials, educational workshops and services, and a health insurance plan for small businesses. Members can participate in the organization's activities by joining committees. Visit www.ibrooklyn.com for more information.
Partnerships and individuals/sole proprietorships doing business under a name other than their own need a Doing Business As (DBA) Business Certificate. File a Business Certificate form with the Count Clerk's Office in the borough where your business is located.
The Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation [BEDC] is a 32 year old private, not-for-profit organization. As a multi-service agency working with government agencies, educational institutions, and the private sector, BEDC offers comprehensive business consulting and economic development services. BEDC offers technical assistance, financial assistance, location assistance, and entrepreneur training programs for start-up and early-stage entrepreneurs.
The Brooklyn (Kings County) Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's (BHCC) main focuses are (but not limited to): their Business Incubator Program, which assists aspiring entrepreneurs in getting started by providing extensive and thorough education to those who wish to become small business owners; processing loans as Technical Assistance Providers for the US Small Business Administration (SBA); assisting with Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) certification as an affiliate for the NYC Department of Small Business Services and hosting Educational/Networking seminars for new/ existing business owners. Services are available in English and in Spanish.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a 300-acre 3.5 million square foot industrial park on the waterfront, currently housing aound 250 small and medium-sized businesses. It offers reasonable rents for prime city real estate ranging from $8 to $20 a square foot, in spaces from 500 to 100,000 square feet. Available spaces are in well-maintained, single and multi-storied buildings with elevator accessibility. Benefits include: self-contained business community with 24-hour security; NY State Empire Zone tax abatements; and an Employment Center to help business find qualified employees.


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