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new website, novels & canon
themilton
Member Posts: 353
If you haven't seen the news article, the CoX website has been drastically revamped. One part includes bios of the Signature characters. Here's a link to Statesman's bio: http://www.cityofheroes.com/about_the_game/signature_heroes/statesman.html.
Instead of coming home in 1918 he headed east, bent on exploring the world now that he'd had a taste of it. Where he went and what happened to him during that lost decade remains a secret to this day.
The first CoX novel explains how Statesman and Lord Recluse got their powers. While that knowledge may have been kept secret, does anyone know if the novels are to be considered canon or not?
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The less you expect, the more you'll be surprised. Hopefully, pleasantly so.
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I had seen the new website, but hadn't dug around much or noticed anything about novels. Doesn't sound like my thing, but I think it's nice that they are expanding the IP.
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they should make more comics - official ones - instead of novels, since its a superhero franchise
and im really looking forward to the CoH film. The producer for Transformers is working on it
CoH film??????
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The less you expect, the more you'll be surprised. Hopefully, pleasantly so.
In response to the COH novels
The first City of Heroes novel, The Web of Arachnos, by Robert Weinberg, was published by CDS Books (an imprint of the Perseus Publishing Group) in October 2005. The novel chronicles the back stories of Statesman and Lord Recluse, the central iconic characters in the City of Heroes and City of Villains franchises. A second novel, The Freedom Phalanx, written by Robin Laws, released in May 2006 and detailed the reformation of the hero team the Freedom Phalanx in the 1980s; the story centers on the fledgling heroes Positron and Synapse, but also includes Manticore, Sister Psyche, and Statesman. The book's villains include Lord Recluse, Doctor Null, Shadow Queen, and Revenant. Artist George Pérez provides the covers for the first two novels, as well as lending his name to one of the early areas of the game itself, Pérez Park. A third novel, The Rikti War, was announced by CDS at the time the first novel was published, with an August 2006 scheduled release date. Authors Paul S. Kemp and Shane Hensley have been attached to the project at various times. The book will reportedly cover the epic transdimensional war between Earth and the Rikti home world, however a post on the official message boards containing a message supposedly from Kemp states that the "novel is not to be and [he] must leave it at that. "Developer Sean Michael Fish (Manticore) has recently stated that CDS will no longer be publishing books for CoX, and The Rikti War may or may not be published.
-Wikipedia