Agonus

So that's Psylocke, Lara Croft, Baroness, and... who?

And, "whot"? Never seen that one before, but it doesn't look like a very nice portmanteau.

EDIT: And while it doesn't have anywhere near the eyecandy, Girl at the Video Game Store was better. =-p

What was the last issue they said you could get? #148 is out this week, and there are solicits for the 150's.

Word is that Thunderbolts is not canceled, for whatever reason it just won't be available for subscription anymore.

Ebil nom nom-ing yetithing of doom?

It's never the fault of the executives, sadly. If anything though, it'll be a -long- time before Cera is a lead in another movie. But by the sheer number of comic related movies in the pipeline, it's highly unlikely that Pilgrim's critical success but sub-par to average box office performance will affect any comic properties on the way to movies. Well, genre bending properties might get hurt, but I don't know of any offhand in the works.

Kick-***, while based on an obscure comic, is fairly straight forward in it's premise. It's a hyper-violent foul-mouthed superhero parody. And while Aaron Johnson was -playing- a loser, he doesn't have anywhere near the (over)exposure that Michael Cera does playing vapid geeks.

Pilgrim's premise is a romantic comedy with hyper-stylized action that targets geeks. Not an easy sell outside the geek market. Then there's Pilgrim's ad campaign that was all over the place. Ymmv on whether or not the ads backfired.

I wouldn't hold your breath. DVD sales are down in the age of Netflix and the like.

Also, fwiw, Pilgrim's total gross today per boxfofficemojo.

Domestic: $29,267,130 75.4% + Foreign: $9,527,630 24.6% = Worldwide: $38,794,760

And that's going up against a 60 million budget. And I think ChrisMoses brought it up before that the movie was having a gradual foreign release, but it's only made another 8 million since that was mentioned here.

A movie made from an incredibly obscure genre bending comic is not blockbuster material. And Edgar Wright's US appeal is almost just as niche. And casting Michael Cera as the lead could be argued as the nail in the coffin.

Whedon wrote the line, so just imagine one of the actors with a sense of comic timing on one of his shows delivering the line, and it works fine.

It was intended to be something like.
*Storm tosses her hair as she turns and walks away, then looks back with a smirk*
*nonchalantly* Same thing that happens to everything else.

Assuming you're serious, methinks it's a very poorly worded way to say that turning a Villain into a Hero is a more popular option with than turning Heroes into Villains.

Heh. I'm the other way around. I rolled a Necro/Dark a while back, but the concept was killed when they took word bubbles away from pets, and now the character only comes out when I need something in that level range. There days, I have a MM of every primary save Mercs, and I -avoid- /Dark. Given the option of a heal that -may- hit versus a heal that will work every time, I go with the latter.

Won't happen under DC's current management. DiDio has gone on record against aging characters, and he advocated killing Dick Grayson, the most successfully aged character in DC, before backlash nixed the idea.

I think you need a universe where progressing timeline has been accepted from day 1, like Judge Dredd. It's a tough fit in Marvel and DC where they constantly re-invent the "iconic" characters to keep them eternally young.

I'm getting a lot closer to that than I ever figured I would.

If Bendis gets his mitts on Marvelman when they bring him into the main universe, I'll be down to a couple X-Books (Uncanny, Legacy, X-Men and Namor) then possibly Thunderbolts and Daredevil (pending Shadowland fallout anyway). That's a fraction of what I was getting a couple years ago.

Calm down, man. I was going off the general "pro-superhero" consensus of the thread. I may prefer superhero comics, but I'll give any comic a chance that strikes my interest.

I've read a little of The Boys (not my thing) and none of Crossed. What I know of the latter is from Diamond Previews and tvtropes.

I count at -least-

4 Dances (possibly more depending on if the Disco and Jackson moves cycle through or they're separate emotes)
4 sport things (same with the basketball and soccer tricks)
2 others

Whether or not that's worth $7.99 is another matter.

As mentioned already Final Crisis, and the other incomprehensible mess that was Batman: RIP too.

I only really get licensed stuff like Buffy and Darkwing Duck, and any Darkstalkers stuff from Udon. I was getting Star Wars Legacy and SW:KoToR until Dark Horse's asinine "Must stop at 50 issues!" silliness kicked in, and now I'm not so sure if I'll be getting anymore Star Wars books.

Ennis? Really? Dude has such a mad-on -against- superheroes. Ennis strikes me as Millar's brother with an even blacker sense of humor. And as far as I can tell, The Crossed is the torture porn of comics.

Kirkman's run on Ultimate X-Men were some of the worst superhero comics I've ever read. I got such a bad taste for his work after that, I don't care how good Invincible may be, the basics of the story are taken from freaking Dragonball Z. And all I have to say about Walking Dead is that I don't care about it at all.

Waid's Irredeemable started great but it's slowed down. Supposedly the pace kicks up with issue 17, but we'll see. Incorruptible is hit and miss, but the sub-par art isn't helping that book either.

Eh, I actually -like- the whole X-Men vs Vampires thing. >.>

Thunderbolts have been neat, and I like where Shadowland is going, but I'm only getting the main mini and Daredevil.

But I've dropped every post-Siege Avengers book, haven't touched the Hulk since Red Hulk picked up Thor's hammer, and I haven't touched Spider-Man since OMD.