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I would point out that the "Xena" musical was nothing but an episode of the show in which they did an inordinate amount of singing. It's not like it played on Broadway, or something.
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It can't be hard singing and putting on an extremely convincing accent at the same time. Lord knows it took the Simpsons cast a few years to get it right.
Creator owned comic characters might hold the record for longest run by one writer. If it's a company character, Peter David's run on the Hulk was over 10 years, wasn't it?
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Lee: Callisto (whatever her real name was) was dubbed too (I have the soundtrack). I meant in general, people can sing. Whereas in Buffy pretty much only Tara and Giles can sing. Even then, a friend of mine who's a musical recording major said Tara didn't sound like she did in real life (she'd seen the 50th anniversary of Rocky Horror on stage, and Giles and Tara were in it). Her and Buffy's (and probably some other people's) voices were enhanced by filters.
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Yeah, Peter David was on the Hulk for a little over a decade.
Roy Thomas wrote near toxic amounts of Conan the Barbarian stories. Enough to fill a small galaxy. I think he lasted nearly two hundred issues.
Chris Claremont had the longest run on a company title I've ever heard of: 17+ years on the Uncanny X-men. Also, it was amusing that he dedicated his first book to the x-men. That's gotta be some kind of first.
I think Dave Sims holds the record for the longest running independantly owned comic, with 277 or so issues of Cerebus so far. This title is dependant on the fact that Cerebus comes out on a regular basis, unlike some other "older" books, which are as infrequent as a mathematical palindrome. (Pop culture buzzword addiction took me for a second there, sorry.)
Japanese comics probably have some truly mad runs, but except for Masamune Shirow and the guys who did Lone Wolf and Cub, I don't know that much about them.
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Jeff, I try to be up when I get time. Hardly anyone else is online when I am, strangely enough. We missed eachother a couple of times, I know. Weekends are the best bet, and soon I've gotten Gamespy up as well (and CS, in effect).
Going with Gamespy 3d though, not Arcade. Even with 1600MHz and a T1-line those damn Arcade server-lists drag on and on. They say it's because of the amount of non-dedicated servers exchanging info with the network.
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