Ms. Mesmer

More like Walt Simonson Day. I support any and all uses of his Thor stories for Marvel adaptations. Best version of Thor and Asgard ever.

Young Justice: I saw that golem heading toward the nuclear plant and thought we were going to get YJ Brimstone for a bit.

They have 1 reason to stop showing King of the Hill: To please you and what appears to be a minority of their viewers, based on ratings.

They have 259 reasons to keep running it: The size of the catalog of episodes to run. King of the Hill is the show with the least amount of rerun burnout from the 2 episodes per weeknight format that they've been using for the last 2 years. Robot Chicken and Aqua Teen have grown so stale from repeated reruns in that format, while King of the Hill has run through all of their episodes maybe 4 times.

To sum up: Get over it or watch something else for that hour, because King of the Hill isn't going anywhere.

It's certainly possible, but I'd put my money elsewhere.

My personal suspicion is that what we've heard of in bits is all connected. Ocean Master goes down in disgrace in an operation that gets Tula killed (poor girl is doomed in every continuity) which Black Manta then uses as a means to flip his son by playing it as the League and the team being responsible, building on his suspicion of them by revealing their own relationship, and then using the whole scenario to take Ocean Master's place with the Light. I guess that Black Manta is the one playing the long con in this scenario.

I'd bet that Aqualad flips back before the season ends.

I think they powered her up a bit, really. Able to stand and fight Hulk? As Binary, perhaps, but traditional Ms. Marvel strength is more in the Spider-Man range or so.

Yeah, that's my fault for not watching through the crunched credits last week to see the "This Week..." preview that's actually talking about next week.

Also, you can see the real difference in focus on female form between different animators ostensibly targeting the same age group here. Green Lantern has CGI rendering of some fairly skimpy female costumes, and we get some posterior shots, but they're nowhere near the *ahem* loving detail that has been used for Black Widow's (for example) backside over in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Of all of these, my only complaints are that Animal Man and Plastic Man might be a bit too similar, Superman of Tokyo hasn't really popped, and the Wallace and Gromit-style ones with the British kids' voices could just stop already, since it's dull and lacks any real charm.

Edit: Added a little commentary on art style and the female form.

The stamp in the corner said Dakota City, so I assume that was Rocket, who was Icon's sidekick in that Milestone comic.

High School German class paid off. The assembled mystics said, "We are the pipers of Hamelin." at the beginning of the episode. Appropriate.

I hate to be the harbinger of doom, but did you notice that they held out the last 8 episodes of season 1 of YJ to premiere alongside GL? My pattern-recognition sense tells me that GL gets an 8 episode run, then a hiatus of some amount before new episodes.

It looks like they've put it on another hiatus. Nebulous airdates of 2012 for the remaining eight episodes, which Weisman confirms are done and ready to air. Not such a bad move, really. Thanksgiving through New Years is a hectic time for most, and premieres in that period are likely wasted, not getting the viewers they could at pretty much any other time of the year.

Apparently, this was it for season one, but the series has been picked up for another. Who knows when that will debut. They're starting over from episode one tonight, so it's a good time to catch up for those that have missed it. It's better than the original in every way, in my opinion.

Brittany Murphy wasn't a main voice actor, and Luanne wasn't a main character, at least not in the latter half of the series. You can tell this because, unlike anyone in the main cast, her character was allowed to have actual changes in her status quo after season six. That was around the time that Mike Judge stopped being the main story guy, and the showrunners after him effectively halted all progression on the main cast. They even did mostly without her for a couple of seasons when she was the "it girl" of Hollywood.

I'd say that King of the Hill would be last on the list of properties that Mike Judge would want to revive because of the way that Fox pushed him out of the creative lead on the series. I have doubts that he would even want to write for the stuck-in-limbo characters that he had created and developed over the first few seasons now.

It probably would in the sense that any reorganization does. It would make us have to rebuild all of our current costumes in order to make even the slightest changes, since everything would be in a different place. It might even be a bit worse than that, assuming that everything new would require a rebuild to put it in its proper order, and thus forcing us to do the same with every new addition. That being said, it's become a rather regular occurrence to have to rebuild all of our costumes as it is, so what would the real difference be?

They changed the level range for masks a while back. They go up to at least 29 in world spawns now.

DC's use of Apokolips as the name of Darkseid's world predates Marvel's villain Apocalypse by about 15 years. I don't know for certain why Kirby chose the deliberate misspelling, but I assume that it just looked cooler to him.

Only if we can get a two-fingered salute emote to use against the Longbow. A bit of irony there, I know.

If a Vig is on the team and Ouros out, make sure they know to hit FF from Ouro. That puts them right across from the Vanguard DPO in FF, so they can get back to Grandville fairly quickly.

Unless they're changed to zero Emp merits, they'll remain too high. We got 12 new Lore trees for free, why should these new trees be any different?

They aren't really more powerful. The Interfaces follow the Reactive formula, some minor effect plus a DoT component, but with damage types other than fire. The problem is that the psi and toxic DoTs are about half as strong, even though mobs in the level range where you can use them are at best neutral to those types of damage, with many being robots that have a very high resist to either. The Judgement one is thematically very cool for the Natural types, but doesn't seem to be any more powerful than the current ones. The Destiny one is highly gimmicky. The Alphas are more marginal in benefit than the current ones, pretty much across the board.

Even if you already have each slot unlocked, you have to pay 15 Emp merits for each of these trees. They're basically making you pay to fit your concept better, if these trees do that for you.

Edit: The unlock of these new trees is on top of unlocking the slot through iXP, which is still required for each slot as a whole.

Further Edit: Upon further review, most things are neutral to toxic, with only a few AVs having resists. It's zombie types that resist both psi and toxic heavily, not robots. It still doesn't change the fact that 1/2 strength for toxic DoT is unnecessary when the fire, energy and negative energy all are higher and are barely resisted by mobs, too.

Oh, it's pretty easy to fail the It's Alive badge. Just have some combination of low DPS or low mitigation. You can come by these by having a lack of support ATs, a bunch of characters with Psi or Negative damage, which I'm pretty certain the Abomination resists pretty well, or a good number of characters at the low end of the level range with few slots and DO strength enhancement or thereabouts.

What you suspect is exactly how it works, but was also how it worked last year.

Heroes and Vigilantes can only Earn Trusting. Villains and Rogues can only earn Arriviste. When you switch, the badge itself doesn't change, but, if you make the switch to the other side while the tip is still dropping, you can get the one for the other side and earn the other badge, replacing the one that you earned on the other side.

Nothing has changed about these, and Going Rogue and the alignment system couldn't have changed them since those were both released before the Halloween event last year. Here's a thread from last year's Halloween Event where we discussed this.