Ironik

A friend of mine in Cincinnati reported that the 2D film was too dark there, too. He could barely see the first part of the film. I'm starting to wonder if there was a bad batch of prints sent out. It's easier to believe one lab's incompetence rather than so many really lazy and/or cheap theatre managers.

ROFLMAO

Winnah!

Oh my goodness! I'm thrilled to be selected!

First of all I want to thank SupaFreak for choosing me, but also my mom, because she nagged me enough to want to get away from her and go play my character and get him to 50, plus all the little people out there: I really loved crushing your spirits as well as your bodies while I steamrolled my way to 50, your bones grinding beneath my mechanical treads and your blood dripping from my battle-hardened combat chassis!

Can't wait to continue my heart-breaking, soul-shaking, life-taking ways in Supa's next AE arc!

Why do you care where your SG ranks? I doubt any of the ones I belong to are in the top ten thousand of anything anywhere and you know something? SO FREAKING WHAT?

Run around. Play. Have fun! Stop worrying about everyone else.

Geezer.

I got Cap, GL, Stupid 8 and Priest.

Someone older than me. Hands Xmas a fifth of Geritol.

For me, it lists Issue 22. Since this year marks my 31st year in animal rescue, it's only fitting that Big Red debuted then,

Cover date.

On sale date.

Awesome find, BlackSun!

Oh. My. God.

By that date I had stopped reading comics FOUR YEARS EARLIER.

Overall I think they did a good job of translating the characters to the screen. They didn't mention in it the movie, but Hogun is (I think) the sole survivor of his people, who were conquered by a Genghis Khan-type guy, essentially Asian analogues to the Norse gods.

A picture from the Wikipedia article on Hogun the Grim.



There's always a moment when an actor sort of impinges upon your awareness, and for me that was when Hiddleston was opposite Branagh in the TV series Wallander.

The more I reflect on it, the more impressed I am by Loki's part. That's an incredibly subtle and difficult part to write *and* to perform, but they made it seem effortless. My only major gripe is that Loki's character arc was done so well that by comparison Thor felt slighted. I remember that role more for its comic relief than for the overall arc. The Loki part was most similar to Tony Stark in the first Iron Man, while Thor felt less detailed, like Obadiah Stane.

Considering that Loki is the prime motivator for the Avengers coming together, it's probably one of the reasons why they spent so much time getting him right.

One thing that the casting director really nailed was the kid version of both Thor and Loki. They really looked amazingly similar to the adults, which is a hard thing to pull off.

Highlight to read more easily. That was one of the most powerful items in the Marvel Universe: the reality-altering Cosmic Cube.

For what it's worth, that bit is straight from the comics.

The only major thing they really altered from the comics -- which was a good thing in my opinion -- was that Dr. Donald Blake really *is* Thor. Sometimes it's Thor suffering from a sort of Odin-induced amnesia, sometimes it's a split personality and sometimes they are actually two different people sharing a body. I MUCH preferred the film's take on that.

"That's no Sailor Moon!"

I'm quite surprised they went there. I mean, that really ups the ante for the Marvel Universe. I wonder if that's what The Avengers will be about?

I was left thinking that it will be cool in five years' time, once they get these films out, to release an "Epic Cut" of the films that are all intertwined, arranged by timeline. So when Colson goes off to New Mexico in Iron Man 2, we cut to the stuff that happens there. Wouldn't that make for an awesome TV miniseries event?

It looks like the trailer version of Prelude was remixed by Immediate Music specifically for that clip, sorry.