Ironik

I use the emote Military Salute for my character Hero Statue, which is mostly funny for fooling (some) people into thinking he's an actual statue. It works because the emote renders the character absolutely still.

I use the clipboard emote for my humorous demon character Hell Toupe. It's not humorous in and of itself, but goes with the toon.



I sometimes use the Observe Dice emote in the Steel Canyon university to ask the sleeping guy if he's okay.



I once had a whole sequence of comments and emotes linked as my character faced a vending machine and tried to get some Cheetos out of it. It was a whole series of emotes. I have screenshots somewhere.

I've always liked that one, Starflier.

Of all of mine? Argh... okay, Nor'easter Bunny.

Thousands of giant eagles, nine ringwraiths. Remember Desert Storm, US Air Force versus Iraqi? Yeah, like that.

It is a really, really big plot hole you could... well, fly a Great Eagle through.

With a global gross of $66 million on a budget of $82 million plus at least $30 million (probably more like $50 million) in marketing, that's officially a failure.

I've always hated Superman because he's stupidly overpowered. There's no challenge to a guy who is godmoding the world. Superman Returns went from "bad" to "idiotic" when it came to his abilities. The flying close to light speed, the ability to recover from a kidney stab with a radioactive rock to then picking up an entire mini-continent of the stuff... bleh.

I mean, there's no such thing as a credible threat for anyone who can move near lightspeed. The fight is over before anyone knows it's started. Superman compounds the problem with being ridiculously strong and ludicrously tough. If he's moving at lightspeed, he could've disarmed Luthor's gang, tied them all up and deposited them on the steps of the police station in less than a second. They would've been vaporized by the experience, but that's beside the point. Heck, even if you take away the "moving almost as fast as light" power, he's still got all this other stuff he can do. Telescopic vision and a handful of pebbles and he can disarm anyone from 5 miles away.

The only good thing about the first Superman movie back in '78 was Luthor's plan to launch two missiles in opposite directions. That problem would've been easy to solve for Singer's powered-up Superman, but at least in the original film they pointed out that he couldn't stop both. beat him at the mental game. Who knew he could time travel?

So for me, Braniac is the only real threat to Superman. he can upload his consciousness into a distributed network, so to quote Gertrude Stein, "There's no there, there." As much as we would like to some days, you just can't punch the internet. Taking out Braniac should be equally as difficult, because even if you smash one node, the guy remains undamaged. That's a much harder movie to write, of course, but it can be done.

"Sorry, we were lighting our farts in the server farm and it shorted something out. Once the smell clears out, we'll get on that."

I've often wondered why comic book companies don't re-color older works. The color separation was so incredibly bad back in the day (and didn't start getting good until the mid-90s) that a ton of older comics would really benefit from modern coloring techniques. The art and story is there, it's just the coloring that holds it back.

I really like that rooftop piece by Taclobanon; it's quite evocative. Is the fight over and she's watching the enemy retreat? Is she looking at an approaching threat? Is she sad her helium balloon got away? So many choices!