: They did apparently recruit the very young during the
: Great War, but I don't think they make a habit of it.
I'm basing this off the peasant template in GURPS, which says they give up (no real tense) promising sons at about age 14. This may have ceased after the wars, but GURPS doesn't mention that.
: What? You didn't mention Miller or Waid? Probably the
: best example of this Ican think of is Kingdom Come.
: So-called super-heroes have overrun the world with no
: ethics to guide them. Ordinary people have fallen into
: kind of a world-wide depression because they don't
: really matter anymore. The stop holding the Olympics,
: etc.
Just because I didn't mention them (I assume you mean Millar, not Miller) doesn't mean I don't include them. :-) Yeah, the Kingdom is certainly a world where superpeople have an impact. I'd rank Stormwatch-->The Authority as a more in-depth example of how superpowers change the world; Kingdom Come was more of a mood piece (which doesn't reduce its quality).
--SiliconDream
