Ironik

I will have you know that a short 6 years and 11 months after his creation, Ironik is on the verge of dinging 50.

You draw standing up? Artists are so weird.

Dunno about the other stuff, but Sam Jackson is in the Marvel films because Millar and Hitch specifically patterned the Ultimate Nick Fury on him and then went meta with the redesign by commenting on it.

I'll take 'em.

Not me, gold farmers. They sell in-game currency for real money out in the world. So doing something that stupidly complex isn't a thing they do for "fun" like the rest of us but rather a means of making money. So for them, it makes sense to maximize profits by farming the most efficient way possible. If they can create high-selling recipes this way rather than wait for random drops, that's what they'll do. I read somewhere that these guys work 10 to 12-hour shifts. That's more "playtime" in a week than I get in months.

So the exploiters simply move from one character to the next instead of just using a single character?

Oops, loophole. Sorry. (See, this is why trying to program against exploiters is generally fruitless.)

Of that there's no doubt, but lines like, "I know, right?!" have nothing to do with marketing and everything to do with a bad writing-directing-acting combo platter. Reynolds is a good actor who can do serious roles as well as dial in any level of comedy, but it looks like he has no real idea how to get a handle on this role.

This is what I've been saying for years: Smallville's writers watch a movie and then write an episode based on it. Remember how Lana got all wuxia after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon came out? And the Saw episode? And last season's Twelve Monkeys rip? Sometimes they mix it up and steal from TV, like when Ultimate Fighting started on Spike and then Smallville had themselves a cage match episode.

When it comes to DC on TV and film, I think it's safe to say that Timm and Nolan are the premiere practitioners.

Since Iron Man was released a full two-and-a-half months before The Dark Knight, I don't think it was a question of competition. For superhero fans, it was more like a continuum of awesome. It was Hellboy II that got stomped by Batman. If they had released Hellboy the same weekend as Dark Knight instead of the week before, it likely wouldn't have made very much money at all.

For me, both Dark Knight and Iron Man are excellent movies, but Iron Man is easily the winner in my book. I own both and when I watch them today I watch all of Iron Man but I fast-forward through Dark Knight to get to the scenes with the Joker.

Based on the trailers alone, Thor easily trumps Green Lantern. GL has a Green Hornet feel to it: campy and cheesy, when what i want is an epic story that has ample humor within but takes itself and its world seriously.

I disagree. I think the problem with Wonder Woman's adaptation in the modern world is simply a failure of imagination. One of the things people forget about Diana and her co-Amazons is that they are immortal as long as they stay on their island. I don't recall if the comics ever say whether they permanently break the magic by leaving or if it re-engages when they return, but were I doing this show, I would go the second route.

This allows us to eat our cake and have it, too. Wonder Woman's origin story is intact as a heroine of WWII. Then, when the job is done, she returns to the island and goes back to not aging. Now trouble brews again and she returns to the outside world to kick some bad guy butt. Since her roots are in myth, just make the Big Bad one of the Greek gods stirring up trouble.

You can actually have all the real-world references to Wonder Woman remain, such as being on the cover of the first issue of Ms. Magazine and becoming a symbol of the feminist movement as the original "strong woman". Just flip it from her being a fictional character to being a real one in this TV universe. Add in a female grad student character who was inspired by WW doing research and uncovering the location of Themyscira so she can engage her help in defeating the evil dude.

Update the costume to something more modern (but not as '80s-simple as the current retarded one), but going back to the have-it-and-eat-it version of the cake, make sure the new costume gets trashed during some dust-up so she has to don the classic one. Win-win. With an extra helping of win on top.

I can fix Superman, too.

Just to keep up my Grammar Pedant Quota for the month, the two versions of this word are as follows:

it's -- contraction of "it is".
its -- used for everything else, like possessives and stuff.

Just remember the contraction version and use the other one in every other instance.

Twice.