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For me, the hero who "lives" closest to me is probably Captain America. He lives in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, within walking distance of my apartment.

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― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

The Great Lakes Avengers now I guess, Gambit a couple years ago. The GLA are an upgrade, especially in terms of their understanding of geography.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

good question!! i guess some member of alpha force :(

are there any vermont superheroes?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

actually there are a billion indie cartoonists in montreal and i'm pretty sure at least a few do (indie) superheroish stuff set here

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

s1ocki, I'd take Ed the Happy Clown (w/ Kung Fu Reagan Dick) over Alphalpha Flight in a heartbeat!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Animal Man's weird activist-shaman Vertigo years were on a Vermont farm/commune -- go with Alpha Flight!

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know which to go with!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I grew up in the lower Hudson Valley, maybe about 45 minutes away from Salem Center. Amazingly, I've never actually been to Salem Center, NY.

Right now, I live in Astoria, so classic Spider-Man, I guess?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

I might have to go w/ the X-Men! Unless there's a superguy/gal in the greater Hartford area.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

WallaceStevensine?

― kenchen, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, where are GLA located these days? There's probably someone Chicago-based who's actually closer, it's only four hours to Chicago.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

GLA are in Milwaukee!

I like that they're reppin' for my hometown, but there was at least one egregious mistake re: Wisconsin freeways in one issue.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Is anyone currently based in Seattle? Godzilla trashed the Space Needle and fought S.H.I.E.L.D. here, but that was the early '80s?

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

I figured they were somewhere in Wisconsin -- there's bound to be a closer Chicago costume, then.

They might've got freeways wrong for you, but they put Gambit in the wrong city! He's "the ragin' Cajun" speaking some weird suburban French class patois in a suspiciously over-urbanized New Orleans where everyone practices voodoo.

xpost; wasn't Green Arrow in Seattle at some point?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Portland is not TOO far away from Star City, so I guess it'd have to be Green Arrow.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Tep, has New Orleans EVER been portrayed accurately (alternately, without voodoo) in comics?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

There's a Swamp Thing issue from (New Orleans native) Nancy Collins' run that on the one hand doesn't get anything wrong, but on the other takes place at Mardi Gras, which kind of wastes the potential of getting things right. Other than that, I don't think so. Most of it is pretty forgivable -- comics tend to draw ALL cities as looking like "New York + recognizable monument." The Cajun-from-a-Creole-city thing just really rubs me the wrong way somehow, maybe because it's such a simple thing that doing nothing more than reading the children's encyclopedia entry on New Orleans would have fixed it.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Accurate NOLA w/ voodoo vs. Inaccurate NOLA w/ no voodoo

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

#2 has to also not have vampires for it to be a fair fight.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Don't know about Boston, my current home, but down in Atlanta, where I'm from, there was some comic writing dude who climbed to the top of the capitol building dressed like his Black Power superhero character, apparently in some joint protest / publicity stunt. Totally forget everthing about this story except the event itself, including names of creator, character, and comic. I remember when it happened, though, in like '92 or '93, and then reading a brief article about it months later in an issue of the Comics Journal.

― ample parking (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

slocki - Bernie Mireault's unmotivated '80s superhero The Jam (patrols consist of: sitting on the roof of his apartment, talking to his dog) probably lives in Montreal.

for me it's probably The Tasmanian Devil, if he's still based at a JLI office in Canberra.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm underwater in the DCU.

Uh, haven't paid attention to who lives in San Diego by way of the Marvel U.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

kit... that's specifically who i was thinking about!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a feeling it's The Leopard From Lime Street. THEREFORE I WIN

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Um.. Captain Britain, probably.

No, V!

― chap who would dare to be slightly tipsy on the internet (chap), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Austin TX=jack shit.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

The North is a super wasteland! Thank goodness the Leopardman lives in Selby, or an obvious analogue thereof.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

Mickey Tork, better known as Bloke from Milligan's X-Force.

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

Captain Britain probably - there aren't any Northern superdudes.

Although Savoy's Lord Horror lived up here in Manchester didn't he?

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Excalibur tend to live in or around the houses of parliment. It was cool when Spider-Womang lived in London. If we allow John Constantine, then his Camden dives are a bit closer to home than anyone else (though I think he is currently in Glasgow at the moment).

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

For me it is probably Captain IRA (& Seamus, the Boy Provo).

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

I guess Swamp T'ang. I wish there were some Memphis-based super.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmmm...

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

there must be some rub English/Irish themed superheroes in the Global Guardians or something?

― Mark C (Markco), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

JACK O'LANTERN

III

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

III???

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

How quickly we forget SHAMROCK!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Batman once visited a Zellers in my hometown on his way to the Calgary Stampede in a promotion comic, so, um, BATMAN. BEAT THAT.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

actually there are a billion indie cartoonists in montreal and i'm pretty sure at least a few do (indie) superheroish stuff set here

Where in Canada was Badger based?

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Concrete lived in the Eagle Rock area of L.A. for a long time.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Huk, where is Wolferine from?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Cahnahdah

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Then why does he have the US Flag painted on his face in the Wolvertoon: Orangutang 2 #2?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Though in the X-Men movie, he seems to be from Alberta, which is pretty close to Saskatchewan.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

UNCIVIL WAR!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was pretty sure it was Canada, just wondering if he repped for a province.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Origin made him American at least by birth, didn't it? Poor Canada.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah. Fuck an Origin.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ha - I was supposedly to be riffing on the Wolferine misspelling w/ my "Cahnahdah." ROFFLE?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Official answer to "why the flag on Wolferine face?" - Nuke (the Marine bohunk from Daredevil: Born Again is making an appearance.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

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