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there's a first time for everything.

no Fite n' Maad? this series has already failed!

M.Endowed: "i see you up there quaking with fear!"

Superboy:"this isn't fear, it's ANTICIPATION!"

truth, on both parts. of course, this may mean that we could have seen Patrick Stewart as Sydney?

yeah, the original Lex was petty stupid. mad scientist with enough money to make battlesuits, giant robots, chemical weapons, etc, etc, etc, and still fought Superman and tried to rob banks most of the time.

then comes the Post Crisis Lex and THAT S.O.B is evil. but hey, if you go by the movies and 40 year old comics, yea, he stinks.

as for craptacular villains? ill pick on some Star Wars stuff and go with General Grievous. evil cyborg who's badass because he coughs and OMG! 4 LIGHT@BR#S! DUUUUUDE!!!! yeah, frak that noise.

in comics, id have to dig up my old Wizard mags to remember all the old Mort's of the month. A lot of the gimmick villains were pretty bad. Ringer, Stilt Man, the Porcupine, just... just ow.

oh yes, because that's worked so well thus far for OMD/BND/OMiT. the entirety of the internet could actually return every issue of the Red Hulk/World War Hulks saga, torn and wrapped around copies of David's Planet Hulk to show Quesada what GOOD Hulk stories are like and still Quesada will not admit that a story is a bad idea, unless of course Loeb bad mouths him and calls Joey Q a pansy. at which point, the gloves are off and Joey Q will make his mission in life to retcon and destroy everything developed by Loeb since he first came to Marvel. Industry folks like to call this "the Grant Morrison treatment".


As a whole, no. But certain individual projects do reach an insane level of sucktitudinal horricrap that mystifies even fanboys. see the aforementioned spidey retcons, the Red Hulk storyline, and the recent Messiah whatever X-Trilogy.

that was one of the things i dug about the ultimate universe. that while spidey was married in the 616-verse, they could explore other relationships in the ultimate title. i dug it when pete was dating kitty pryde. it connected peter to the larger ultimate universe. but hey, let's continue to chip at the reasons folks read both titles and make them as similar as possible. frakking Quesada.

damn llama. keep that up and we feed you to a European.

with onions.

it was doing well up until they had did horribad crossover Ultimatum. That was just a bloody mess so bad the creators originally involved with the Ultimate universe came back and took up the reins again. That being said, im digging the Ultimate Spidey stuff, but i dropped Ultimates like a bad habit after 2 issues. i dont even want to look at ultimate x or the other ultimate avengers title.

llamas are not known for their insight.

i don't know, it's nice to get some more firefly/Serenity material, but i think they closed that particular loose end nicely in the movie.

Mal: "It's of interest to me how much you seem to know about that world."
Book: "I wasn't born a shephard, Mal."
Mal: "You have to tell me about it sometime."
Book: (pause) "No, i don't."

and the villains tend to end up being super-villains simply because they aren't restricted the way the PCs are, and aren't much different than a lot of the super-villains in comics anyway.

i've always thought of the higher end D&D characters being super-heroes anyway.

meh, can't blame the folks for wanting to jump on the d20 gravy train and trying to get folks to buy their product. now the ones who put out crap, them i could poke with a stick.

it's got a better rating on Rotten Tomatoes. neither site actually affects my opinion that Star Trek was big 'ol pile of meh with a great cast.

sounds about the Smallville speed.

apparently your definition of excellent and Oxford's differ greatly. i blame the English.

good, bad, this is the movie without Bruce Campbell.

the whole film should be Zach Quinto and Karl Urban arguing in character. that should make up for any gripes i had about the first movie. oh right, and no filming in the Enterprise's distillery. everytime they cut to engineering i was having Space Mutiny flashbacks.