Agonus

Can't really say I agree with the trailer review. Okay, so the movie -seems- to be taking a couple nods from Iron Man (which is a good thing, even if Jordan is NOT Stark) and some other trailers, so what? This is Hollywood, originality is rather rare.

'Aye. Save for the oath, a lot of the Green Lantern catchphrases read better than they sound out loud.

If someone would clue the reviewer to TWD not being about the zombies, it would come off better. That aside, I agree with their complaints about the dialogue. I don't know how much of it is directly lifted from the comics, but there's definite elements of the unnatural speech I've read from Kirkman before.

Fire escape on the side of the building? The mystery helicopter Rick saw?

You bring up some interesting points, some I agree with, some I don't.

Look at some recent attempts to shake up the major characters in the Big Two companies.

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Superman was depowered, then given electric powers, and a new blue-skinned look. Then he was split into Electric Superman Red and Electric Superman Blue. And the public reaction was overwhelmingly negative. So Superman goes back to normal. Then 100,000 (or whatever the number was) Kryptonins are freed from Brainiac and put on New Krypton. So we had 100,001 other Kryptonians with Superman's same powerset. Then New Krypton is destroyed, and all the new Kryptonians are killed, so we're back to Clark and Kara.

Spider-Man was implied to have a mystical connection to Spiders. That was swept under the rug and forgotten. Spider-Man was given stingers in his wrists, and that was forgotten even faster. Spider-Man's modern status quo of his marriage to Mary Jane was retconned away, to bring back his earlier single man status quo that today's creators grew up on. Ymmv on that.

However, the Hulk's supporting cast has undergone a major overhaul. He has two sons now, Betty Ross is the Red She-Hulk, General Ross is the Red Hulk, Rick Jones is A-Bomb, and there's a new red-haired She-Hulk.

Batman Inc. will be going full blast here shortly, and we'll see how long that lasts.

And that's just off the top of my head, I'm sure that there are plenty of other examples of The Status Quo is God in superhero comics. The only books that I can think of that aren't held back and are allowed to change and evolve are the X-Men.

And speaking of the X-Men, Wolverine is the "newest" character to break the glass ceiling and become as popular as the big names, and he was created in 1974. Deadpool might make it, if Marvel don't kill interest in the character with a flood of books.

My point is that the majority of modern superhero fans are ridiculously opposed to change. They want the same iconic characters they grew up on, and pitch a fit if anything gets changed, ever. Hell, look at the nerdrage reactions here in regards to Batman's slightly tweaked costume or the Earth One Superman.

That's part of why I like Irredeemable and Incorruptible. There's no looming status quo for the Plutonian and Max Damage to get shunted back to. Anything's possible.

And as far as changing cash cows, it was said for the longest time that the primary reason DC wouldn't change Wonder Woman's costume was because of product licensing. The classic costume is on all the merchandise, and WB/DC were worried people were too stupid to realize it would be the same character if anything looked different.

Awesomeness of most of the 3 parter aside, I think you're reading into it a little too much. I think the MBC reveal was where the mega-event parody stopped, and most of the rest of the episode was par for the course. South Park has a history of abrupt, wtf endings.

Still, wow. They made Kenny pretty hardcore, didn't they?
"I'm tired. I'm going to bed."
*bang*

Certainly been dead to me since then.

...anti ...knife ...activist?!

*googles*

Wow. That makes about as much sense as the whole Vote or Die thing.

Where's the No Hammer League? Or Ban the Baseball Bat?

Agreed.

I'd also nominate Identity Crisis.

And the whole Hyde/Invisible Man thing from LoEG.

The sex scene with Wasp and Pym in Avengers.

Kyle's girlfriend in the fridge.

Lost Girls. Or pretty much any indie work by Ennis, Moore, or Millar.

Hey, I'm all for having the game catered to players like you and me who want story. But I'm fairly certain the farmers (who want rewards for nothing) and speedsters (who want to prove... something...) would still blow through it regardless of how well it was done.

You're missing the point. With GR, the Devs re-did the low level content with three whole new zones, multiple story arc paths, and imho very well written arcs.

And then people started complaining that there was no way to up the difficulty so they could get through that new content as fast as possible. Or that some missions forced soloing. Or that the morality of the paths are too confining. Or that the ebil fascists in power should be 100% ebil and the Resistance should be 100% good. Or whatever.

It's not the case for YOU, sure, but that doesn't change the other players who want to get to the "real" game post level 22 as fast as possible. For them, the best low level content would be big Looney Toonsian neon signs to the Sewers, with pitstops every so often inside to level up. Sorta like the farms that killed AE.

Making Stamina inherent -should- help, but well, we'll see.

Hell, I've come across far too many players who ***** about the lack of content in the game because they legitimately don't know there are contacts beyond the newspaper or radio. You could have the best written arcs EVAR but so many people want to play this game with as little reading as possible that it won't matter.

I do a search by level in whatever zone I'm passing through at the time, then search by level in all the zones. When 5-15 total players show up for the 6-20 level range, and I'm the only one flagged as looking for a team, I'll solo for a bit to use up Patrol XP and/or move on to another character.

If it is the same Lillith we've seen previously, stands to reason the Alphas are more active than usual because their mother was killed. Or Crowley's just after them because they're old enough to know where Purgatory is. *shrug* Either way I'm happy with how the season is turning out.

I wonder if they're ever bringing Kali back?

Your way is pretty close to the way I've thought it's said, though I don't put a syllable between the "c" and the "th" which would make it something like "KTHU-lu."

Never heard it with a silent C though, that's a new one to me.

It's Frazer Irving. I'm with you on the guy's style, but the higher ups at Marvel and DC, and Grant Morrison in particular I think, love the guy's work.

Haha, known actor? Nah.

I was an extra in Unstoppable, which is out on the 12th. Don't know if I'll actually be visible in the movie until I see it though.