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Folks on other sites sure are making a mountain range out of an anthill on the whole Grodd controlling Africa thing.

Green Lantern and Wonder Woman were relaunched around then. GL's stuck to that new numbering, but WW ran into massive delays. They eventually got the book closer to schedule, and WW was reconfigured to sync up to the classic numbers.

I fully understand where you're coming from, and don't want to argue with you on that. But I for one like knowing that a title and character have history.

I think part of the problem is that when a potential buyer sees that issue # 902 on Action Comics, or 525 for Uncanny X-Men, they get jittery that you'll need a PhD in the title's history to be able to follow any of the new stories. Lemme just say that very, very few titles or even writers are like that. There are exceptions of course, like some X-Men titles, Legion, and some of Grant Morrison's stuff. But Marvel and DC have been going out of their way the last 5 years to make a lot of the books as new reader friendly as possible.

Most comics these days usually only sporadically refer to events or characters from the last, say, 5 to 10 years or so. See, a lot of modern writers don't know every single thing that's happened in every title either. When they get an assignment for a storyline, they'll research some key plotlines, and leave it at that.

Ahdunno, I think the whole Agents of S!H!A!Z!A!M! (or whatever their official name is) has potential. I don't quite see how Battle Cattawny fits into it yet, but the Shazamateers are the main reason I'm picking up Flashpoint.

Erm... my main point is that Marvel has had a lot of incredibly powerful flying brick combo platter power characters that wear capes and tights. (Which is pretty much all Superman and the Sentry have in common. They're both CPP flying bricks in capes and tights.) I wasn't listing characters by power level or anything. And if you start including characters like Surfer, you can add in guys like Namor, Juggernaut and a myriad of others too.

Aye, agreed. Fair point there.

I disagree. Considering, as you said, Thor and Gladiator, and then Sentry, Hyperion (in his umpteen incarnations), Beta Ray Bill, Blue Marvel, and I'm sure a bunch of guys I'm forgetting Marvel has more than enough Superman expy's and has had them for a while.

As for Batman, I can only think of Moon Knight off hand, but I know there's other Batman homages too.

'Cept these are not the traditional Norse gods. They're the Asgardians of the Marvel Universe, who, in said mythos, inspired the Norse gods.

I wonder if Jerry Only's lawyer knows about this?

Odin periodically goes into the Odinsleep to recharge his power, the Odinforce. I'm pretty sure Odin keeps his power while napping, but if he dies, the power goes to the heir to the throne. In the JMS run, after Ragnarok, Thor is the first one back, and he does have the Odinforce, and he uses it to resurrect everyone but Odin. Thor eventually does go into the, ah, Thorsleep to recharge, but by the end of the arc, he uses up the Odinforce.

Odin gets resurrected finally and gets his full power back, cue the in-process event Fear Itself.

Hehe. I needed the giggle fit from that today.

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Wow. SW costumes are hard enough to just stand around in, let alone do all THAT. Zounds!

$6K sounds a high to me, but it's been around 5 years since I've checked average rates. I got character designs, a logo, a color cover, and 22 pages penciled (so the artwork was just black and white) and lettered (don't forget about getting the lettering done too) for about $2500 back then.

The "right" way to do a comic script varies greatly from publisher to publisher, but if you're not trying to submit it to anyone, there's no need to bother with strictly adhering to any guidelines anyway. Last I checked, Dark Horse had some pretty straightforward samples on how to do a script on their site. But yeah, just write it yourself.

And as far as hiring an "artist" you need to be more specific. Do you want a guy that pencils, inks, and colors his own stuff? They'll rightly charge a lot more than a guy that just does pencils, or a guy that just does inking.

And fwiw, penciljack and digitalwebbing are havens for those hungry artist types.

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This please. Would be ridiculously helpful to how to see how different auras match up when they're toggled, and how attacks look with the auras up.

I have no problem with well done, straight forward, sad endings. Most of the movies listed have those.

Sucker Punch, in my opinion, doesn't have that. See, I read a lot of promotional material for the movie, and everything I read swore up and down six ways to Sunday that SP is Baby Doll's story. So I was actually annoyed at the big "revelation" more than anything. Don't get me wrong, I'd been wondering -why- the movie was called "Sucker Punch" since I heard the title, but I just feel the twist ending was poorly done. For me, the two girls getting killed suddenly, and Baby Doll getting lobotomized -anyway- overwhelm any happy endingy closure of Sweet Pea being the lone survivor of the whole thing.

Doesn't work that way. Nevermind that most of the "professional" reviewers have more than likely seen just as much of Sucker Punch as you have.

Snyder was forced to cut a lot of material from the movie to get the PG-13 rating. Supposed to be a Director's Cut DVD in the works that's a lot closer to what he wanted to do.