15 Minutes with Michael Heide

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When you sang Ace of Spades, was it in English or German?

Top three heroes and villains from DC and Marvel... Six heroes and six villains total?

Say you couldn't work at DC but Dynamite was interested in hiring you. They mostly deal with classic tv properties and cartoons but also dabble with characters in the Public Domain. What character or concept would you want to work on and why? Would you want something like Voltron or the Green Hornet, or would you do Tarzan or Buck Rogers? It could be something they're already attempting or something fresh out the kitchen...

~KL~

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And A Train, why no pic of Germany up top? Iggy got Pokemon, West got Joshua Jackson... I can only assume Deadpool got a Deadpool? I can only assume I'd have some micros or maybe Kyle in a sweet costume... IDK....

~KL~

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Do you mean a story in which I'm drunk? Or a story I tell when I'm drunk?

the former.

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Yeah, I wonder sometimes how much that would work. It might have lessened the Holocaust and that would be a great thing, but Antisemitism was rampant in the politics of the day. Goering, Goebbels (who wrote in his journal that he wasn't sure Hitler would go far enough when they first met!), and Himmler were already fascist antisemites before they met Hitler. For sure Hitler wasn't responsible for WWII alone. Your country and most of Europe were going to go to extreme politics on one side or the other and most of those guys were big into genocide.

For that matter, you better go after Musolini, Franco, Hirohito, and Stalin. You might be better off subtly lessening the effects of WWI. Of course, if you had a TARDIS you could keep going back until you get it right.

It's true that Hitler didn't invent antisemitism. But he was the charismatic leader that put the NSDAP on the map. Without him and his speeches, they would have had a much, much harder time rising to power. It would have taken so many years or even decades longer that Mussolini or Stalin might not have been a concern anymore.

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Of all the Doctors and Companions who would you like to see as a Doctor/Companion team-up?

Eight and Sarah Jane.

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When you sang Ace of Spades, was it in English or German?

English. I don't think there even is a German version.

Top three heroes and villains from DC and Marvel... Six heroes and six villains total?

Heroes DC:
3. Superman
2. Batman
1. Kyle Rayner

Villains DC:
3. Dr. Julian September
2. Luthor
1. The Riddler

Heroes Marvel:
3. Forge
2. Spider-Man
1. Nightcrawler

Villains Marvel:
3. Morbius
2. Magneto
1. Dr. Doom

Say you couldn't work at DC but Dynamite was interested in hiring you. They mostly deal with classic tv properties and cartoons but also dabble with characters in the Public Domain. What character or concept would you want to work on and why? Would you want something like Voltron or the Green Hornet, or would you do Tarzan or Buck Rogers? It could be something they're already attempting or something fresh out the kitchen...

~KL~

I'm working on a modern retelling of Don Quixote as a private detective. Like Adrian Monk or Sherlock Holmes, helping the police, finding clues the others miss, but filtered through his delusion. He considers himself a knight in shining armor and solves crimes, but there's a huge discrepancy between the world in his head and the reality outside. I would need two artists for this, one for each reality.

I wonder if the Phantom of the Opera could be reimagined as a crime solving vigilante.

Also, I would like to reimagine Phileas Fogg as a space traveller. Around the Galaxy in 80 Days.

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And A Train, why no pic of Germany up top? Iggy got Pokemon, West got Joshua Jackson... I can only assume Deadpool got a Deadpool? I can only assume I'd have some micros or maybe Kyle in a sweet costume... IDK....

~KL~

He took my profile pic. I need to change that.

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the former.

Stories in which I'm drunk are always anti-climactic. Either nothing happens, or I do unfunny shit that I don't remember and end up puking or falling asleep. Which is one of the reasons why I stopped drinking alcohol in 2010.
However, I can tell you the most interesting place where I blew chunks: Right next to the Fontana Di Trevi in Rome. It's not a spectacular story. I visited Rome with friends, we wanted to meet at the Trevi Fountain, then they called me on my phone and told me that they were at the Piazza Navona instead. On my way there, I bought a bottle of wine and started drinking. However, I took a wrong turn somewhere and took ages to get to the Piazza Navona. By the time I was there, my friends were gone, to pick me up on my way to them. We had missed each other. This happened two more times, always walking back and forth. By the time we met, I had finished my second bottle, and the party ended shortly after that with me going to the next alley and redecorating the pavement.

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If you were granted the power to pass an law or create an act, what would it be?

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Probably something fighting corruption. It's not much of a democracy if the politicians get bribed.

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And A Train, why no pic of Germany up top? Iggy got Pokemon, West got Joshua Jackson... I can only assume Deadpool got a Deadpool? I can only assume I'd have some micros or maybe Kyle in a sweet costume... IDK....

~KL~

I usually base the OP picture on the poster's profile picture or avatar. More often than not I just copy the one in their profile unless I find something better.

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Favorite Star Wars character?
Favorite Simpsons character?
Favorite board game (if you don't play now, then in the past)?

It's true that Hitler didn't invent antisemitism. But he was the charismatic leader that put the NSDAP on the map. Without him and his speeches, they would have had a much, much harder time rising to power. It would have taken so many years or even decades longer that Mussolini or Stalin might not have been a concern anymore.

True. The benefit of the TARDIS would be you could (having decided to break the immutable laws of time travel) keep re-working it if plan A didn't work. I take it from your original response that you're at least a partial pacifist. Most people would've said to kill Hitler outright. You could even do it so it's unnoticed like make his near miss in WWI a non-miss or sterilize his father.

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Favorite Star Wars character?

Obi Wan Kenobi, Episodes III to IV.

Favorite Simpsons character?

Jack Black's comic store owner across the street from the Android Dungeon.

Favorite board game (if you don't play now, then in the past)?

Does Dominion count as a board game? There's no board.
Small World is great. So is Pandemic.
In the past, Hero Quest.
And then there are pure card games, like Hanabi or Cards Against Humanity.

True. The benefit of the TARDIS would be you could (having decided to break the immutable laws of time travel) keep re-working it if plan A didn't work. I take it from your original response that you're at least a partial pacifist. Most people would've said to kill Hitler outright. You could even do it so it's unnoticed like make his near miss in WWI a non-miss or sterilize his father.

Hitler was a product of his surroundings and the time. In another time, in another place, he could have been a decent guy, I don't know. Killing him directly or indirectly would make me sink to his level, albeit at a smaller scale. If I could prevent World War II without bloodshed, I'd do that instead. Another way would be to prevent the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

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Also, I would like to reimagine Phileas Fogg as a space traveller. Around the Galaxy in 80 Days.

Might be kind of amusing if, at the end, because of relativistic effects, it turns out that he has only been travelling for 80 days his time, even though it seems longer to observers back at the club.

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...Does Dominion count as a board game? There's no board.

Yeah, same idea.

In the past, Hero Quest...

I played that a fair amount with a couple friends back in junior high. We made insanely difficult, trapladen maps (because that's how adolescent boys think).

Another way would be to prevent the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

I was thinking of that too.