Chad Gulzow-Man

The movie was gloriously bad.

I wasn't sure what to expect--the previews made it look like they were actually putting effort into it this time--but it held to the same tried and tr... er... well, no, they didn't try, and the movie was truly awful. But in a good way.

A million disembodied, poorly-CGed, reptile-bitten thumbs up.

(And if anyone has a link to the "Charm the Snake" song that played throughout the movie, hook me up, I need to torment people with it.)

I'm hosting a Mega Python vs Gatoroid party, sorry!

Gratz Snow! I think I've still got about 7 left myself (all four from the Apex TF, the two from the new Hero arc and the ever-dreaded MoBSF).

My best friend in high school collected Wizard magazine. I getting pretty big into anime and manga at the time, so I didn't really care much for most of the content, but I loved the David Letterman-esque top ten lists they did.

My favorite of all time was "Top Ten Rejected Batman Action Figures," which included things such as:

• Intestinal Distress Batman (with action Bat-Tapeworm!)
• "Sweet Jesus, Where's the Bathroom!?!" Batman, with Fear-of-God Bat-Expression
• Bullet Riddled Thomas and Martha Wayne Inaction Figures
• Pantsless Alfred

I agree completely with #3.

The other two, meh. For starters, how many email applications out there let you email yourself with a single button click? It doesn't make sense. And the delay in sending emails is to keep spammers from crushing the system by sending out thirty seven bajillion emails back to back. Furthermore, it's unlikely that the delay can be separated out based on an email's recipient anyway.

Now, on the other hand, if you'd suggested implementing an email queue, where you can cram say 5 or 10 emails which automatically send themselves out at the rate of one every 15 seconds (as long as you stay logged in), then I could probably get behind that too.

If anyone doesn't show up for some reason, I'm down tonight. I've got a full assortment of nukes, Shivans, a Vanguard HVAS, a Snow Beast, and both types of RV Heavy to throw at Director-face.

Of course, I'm a Scrapper, so other than the above I can only bring face-punching.

Hey, we share a birthday. Happy birthday, Pilgrim! (Here's to hoping there's no so much greying to be had this year.)

Ignoring the OP's post, I choose to respond to the thread title:

No, I'm not a terribly big fan of comic books. I did a little reading in my youth, and even collected a couple titles (I had 4+ years of sequential TMNT comics published by Archie Comics, and more comics about the Marvel superhero Sleepwalker than there are people who remember who he is... ), but I was always more interested in the superhero cartoons--He-Man and TMNT as a child, then Batman and Spider-Man in my teens, which bled into an interest in anime in my late teens that's only now starting to dull in my early 30s. I do read some manga pretty regularly, but most of my favorite titles have ended, so there are only four that I keep up with in any regularity.

Thus, most of my characters are either: super campy cartoon-style heroes or villains, the darker, troubled characters of the '90s, or someway themed around anime and Japanese sensibilities.

They're still superheroes and supervillains, but I never liked the "Golden Age" or "Silver Age" stuff, so you're not going to find a lot of that in my character roster.

I have two pacted pairs between my two accounts: a Rad/Mind Blaster pacted to a DP/EM Blaster and a Fire/Dark Corruptor paired with a Fire/Pain Corruptor. (I rarely play ranged damage characters, so it helps me to have options.)

I've only pacted with a second person once, and that was with my ex shortly before she and I had a falling out. The pact got broken by some technical issue, but it didn't really matter, because she quit the game to go play [that big-name fantasy game] pretty much right after.

Edit: I forgot to mention the whole reason I started writing this post, anyway.

Ever since we got Super Sidekicking in Issue 16, I don't think that the original purpose behind the levelling pact is really still valid. Everybody on a team plays within one level of the leader/mission holder, so there's no more "getting left behind" by a group. If you miss a play session with a group and get a couple levels behind, just being sidekicked to the rest of them will get you nearly caught up within just a few missions.