Civil War Banners - Firefly/Serenity characters
POSTED BY: DesktopHippie
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 17:46
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Hey all,
I didn't want to post these in the Blue Sun room as a) there's a boatload of them and b) I'm not 100% sure people here will be interested, but I've made up some Civil War banners.
For those not in the know, Civil War is a ground breaking story that is currently taking place in the Marvel comics (Spider-Man, X-Men, Avengers etc.) Seen by many to be an allegory for the Patriot Act, this story deals with the conflict that arises when legislation is put in place to register superheroes. In other words, any superheroes who don't provide their details to the government break the law and get jailed. The law bitterly divides the superhero community into those to support it and those who refuse to obey it, a division gets deeper as the supporting side is forced to police the other.
Yes this is all very interesting but what the heck does it have to do with Firefly? On the surface, nothing. However, when the story first came out Marvel fans started using banners as signatures, declaring their loyalties to the pro-registration or anti-registration sides. Then people started making funny ones celebrating their characters. Then non-Marvel fans started joining in just for the heck of it and now... well, have a lurk at www.penny-arcade.com and you'll get an idea just how many banners there are out there.
I've seen loads of banners for every kind of movie, comic, tv show and historical figure, but so far I've only come accross one Firefly related banner. ("I'm with the girl who can kill you with her mind!" - had a cool shot of River from Serenity) Since there seems to be a gap I've made a few more. Posters are more than welcome to use these (as long as you host them yourselves - don't steal my bandwidth!) or make up their own based on these. (Badger is missing from my list, I'm sure I've missed someone else and I need a decent image of Book for his banner!)
Okay, hope I haven't bored any non-Marvel fans to death. Hope at least *someone* finds a use for these! Enjoy!
EDIT: Thanks to www.still-flying.net for the Firefly stills, leavemethewhite for the Serenity stills and Geekmafia for correcting my spelling of the character names 
EDIT EDIT: Added Simon to this post, as I didn't like seeing him left all on his own... *has urge to cuddle Simon*
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You missed Simon as well.
"A government is a body of people usually notably ungoverned."
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*swears in Chinese*
Had him done already, just missed him when I posted the images!
They're all 500x80pix by the way, which is the maximum signature size allowed at some forums.
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These are cool, DTH.
I'm vaguely aware of the storyline from the X-Men podcasts I listened to last month.
Very cool!
*snags the Mal one for a comic board I plan to join*
And I promise to put it in my photobucket before using it. 
Thank you!
Go here to Boost the Signal!
www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=20&t=23296
Ask me how to join the Appreciatin' Nathan Crew!
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Those are great! 
King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa
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I'm with River!
FYI, there's no "S" in "Cobb". Luckily, that's pretty easy to fix.
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with them. - Gautama Siddharta
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*swears in Chinese again*
I hate not having net access at home! *sob*
Okay, well, there's an opportunity for someone to make their own Jayne banner :) I'll correct it as soon as I can and post the corrected one in this thread. I've been thinking of adding some funny ones anyway, like "I'm with Jayne. In his bunk." or "I'm with the woman who can kill you with her pinkie."
Feel free to hijack the thread to discuss Civil War itself, if there *are* any Marvel fans on this board!
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I am really!! I dont think browncoats should join the civil war cos we have too many guns
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Still got Badger and a few others to do, but I've fixed the Jayne one.
Be sure to host 'em yourselves if you want 'em!
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I didn't know the background to these but people were using them all over another board I visit ( http://corvusonline.net/corvuschatter/) so I made my own. So of course now I gotta share it here...
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