Black Zot

What's wrong with Michael Bay doing a movie about war machines and stuff blowing up? Last I checked that was the only thing he was good at.

1. November 11th is a much bigger deal in Canada than the US.

2. My grandfather is a decorated WW2 naval veteran, so it's quite personal for me, thank you.

I've got some old Deathlok comics squirreled away (second version, the pacifist stuck in a killing machine) that actually covered that, sort of. Mechadoom, as the bot in question called itself, was an advanced doombot that developed a humanlike personality all its own. It was actually in the middle of its own heel-face turn when Ultron pasted it from behind, wasting the potential. Perfectly good storyline otherwise, albeit overly abbreviated to shoehorn it into two issues.

Been there, felt that, have half a dozen T-shirts which express my feelings on the matter in some form or other.

I have Asperger's Syndrome. I do not, cannot, percieve the world in the same way as the average Joe. I cannot read most nonverbal cues, my fine motor skills are in the bottom third of the human race, I am prone to obsessive/addictive behavior, and my attention span is too unpredictable to measure. Because of this malfunction I was ostracized by my peers throughout my primary and secondary education. I was misdiagnosed, mismedicated, and told my problems were all in my head. I graduated high school as much because my father was a teacher and kept me pointed in the right general direction by sheer force of will as because of my own intellect.

My condition was properly diagnosed only after I was well into my 20s - over two decades too late to do any good. Most autism-spectrum therapies are targeted at preschoolers - they don't even try to help adults with the condition. Like countless others, I had fallen through the cracks before the floorboards were even laid down.

The only people who ever gave half a damn about my situation were my family, and even they hardly do more then tell me to suck it up and deal.

I sit here now as a gainfully employed human being in defiance of a society that would prefer people like me ceased to exist. It's not their problem.



By the way, nice job stomping on a whole lot of unhealed wounds with just 3 lines. That takes talent.

The shield is a bullcrap excuse. He's blocked a lot of things with that shield that should have by all rights crushed him whether he had a fancy hunk of metal in hand or not. Thor's hammer for example. Even if the shield itself stood up to all that abuse, there's no way in hades the arm holding it could possibly have withstood the impact.

Even well executed pressure-point attacks are meaningless against someone who can ignore a bullet to the groin, unless you've got some level of super-strength to back it up.

Essentially, unless you've got the sort of Mary Sueish author favoritism that guys like Batman and Captain America enjoy, there comes a point where you need powers of your own to stand a chance against a superpowered opponent. It's like going unarmed into a fight with a guy with an automatic weapon and body armor who knows where you are at all times. There's only one way that fight can turn out.

Agreed. It's about time people in this thread came out of their little fantasy world and realized that the only thing comic books have in common with real life is that human beings are involved somehow. "Superhero" stories are pure wish fulfillment.

This guy tried to involve other people in forcing his imaginary world into reality, despite being more than old enough to realize that reality wants no part of that crap. In most instances where that happens, the perpetrator ends up in one of three places: psychiatric care, a jail cell, or a grave. The police were simply following a longstanding precedent.

Unfortunately you're talking about a target demographic that's considered by most publishers and networks to be too small to recoup investment on, ergo not worth putting out material for.

Tokens are kinda like milestone counters - every 15 bucks you spend on points for the Market (the ingame cash shop) earns a token, and every month you stay subscribed as a VIP earns a token.

If you're just looking to pile up enough tokens for full chat access and don't care about the VIP perks, the most efficient way is probably to just buy the $15 points package 3 times.

That also borked a few of the NPCs in my AE arcs, not that they're anything spectacular to begin with.

Thugs come out of manholes and ride in on bikes in areas where neither could possibly have access.

That's because Batman does the Mary Sue thing better than Mary Sue.