sabresindc wrote:
Basically the NHL has teamed up with a comic book guru to create a comic book hero of each team. I'm assuming they will be create some sort of storyline to go along with it. Obviously someone in marketing is a comic book geek who thought this was a great idea...I personally think it'll bomb.
I don't wanna bash Stan Lee. Oh wait, yes I do, I mean we are the Buffalo Sabres and yet there's no bison incorporated into our team and it looks like the LA Kings Guardian has a bigger sword....WTF Stan? The "Die by the Blade" mascot is better than his conception.
I mean the Bruins guardian is a werebear...why not make the Sabres a Bison that wields a savage looking sabre? Some savage looking Minotaur like dude would have been the obvious thing...but I guess Niagara Falls tie-in was needed.
And we have a lame battery pack thing...what about being a ground based leader of a thundering herd?
Not as lame as the Canadiens Guardian who, "Makes all his teammates better."
I thank him for the X-men and such, but he really screwed the pooch on our guardian.
But come on...any bad guy who's thwarted by a little wind, is not that bad of a badguy. Its like the bad monster in Van Helsing dying by falling onto a chaise lounge.
My Sabres Guardian would have been a Minotaur with a savage serrated sabre that's lashed to his hand with hockey tape. His shield is made up of assorted hockey equipment that he's taken off foes that he's felled. Of course I had this idea for a comic book version of Ryan Miller where he's got red "Warduke" type eyes, steam snorts are coming out from under his mask, his goalie pad are sewn from pieces of other teams torn uniforms. His hockey stick is an Eqyptian Korpish Sabre and his blocker is made up of helmets, bones, and assorted other things. (I just can't draw.) ...then again I like Molly Hatchet, so go figure.
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