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Just worked out a purchase/trade for some OA with Josh & he's gotta be one of the easiest guys here to work with. Great packing & super fast shipping. Just a good dude.

Added a little bit to the wall. 2 new shelves & a piece of Nextwave OA that I picked up from a fellow boardie. I think this wall is sufficiently packed at this point.

He was actually in love with Sunfire. Boom!

The only Bendis stuff I haven't liked has been his X-Men work. He just doesn't seem to grasp them.

Dude, that was House of Pain!

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Does Feige have his hand in this stuff too or is this a different department? I do have to agree, the show has been killer so far. As so many others have stated, they nailed the feel that DD needs. I hope the streak continues. Jeph Loeb is in charge of Marvel Television, but he & Feige work to keep the Marvel Studios & Marvel Television shared-universe moving together in virtually lock-step. Technically, Feige is slightly higher on the Marvel Totem Pole, but not by much. Essentially, they just work as a team with Jeph being far far far more hands-on.

Yeah. But they can always make them people that they come into contact in the present day, helping them adjust. Start the movie with them getting ready for the shuttle launch in the 60's & within 30 minutes of the start, they're crash-landing in the present day. Might be able to make the nuclear-family thing a little more realistic to modern viewers who wouldn't really understand a Sue that would stick with Reed through his dismissive & distant phases, would allow Johnny using the "I came from the past on a rocketship!" thing to gain celebrity (better than a stupid motorcross thing) and would make Ben's feelings of alienation even more pronounced. Again, just an idea.

Could always make them leave in the 1960's and kinda Planet of the Apes them into the future when they land again. Would make sense of the "amateur astronauts" thing that wouldn't really work so well today, but keep their origin cosmic instead of Negative Zone related. Just not sure how well that would work either.

He said the suit wasn't finished...the black would provide more protection, the red less, but that he didn't have time to complete it. Hmm, didn't notice that. Why would they do that? Is it so that the costume seems sort of in-progress much like the scarf he wore all season was? With the last episode being the big coming out of Daredevil, you'd think they'd unveil the polished real deal for that episode...seems difficult to believe they were still thinking of a work in progress. Easy out for producers to change it if necessary. Plus, in the real world & in the MCU, nothing is ever "finalized". Iron Man has always changed up his costume. Cap has worn 3 different costumes so far (5 if you count the USO costume & the slightly different version he wore when rescuing the Howling Commandos). Even Thor's armor has changed from movie to movie. They might get closer, but the first version of a major change in a costume is almost always a beta test. This was DD's beta-test costume. He went from no armor to armor that might or might not work as it was designed. Season 2 will probably show him going back to Potter to get it finished & upgraded where it was insufficient, and we'll get another change as a result.

That'd kinda be like Spider-Man getting beat by some F-listers like...oh, say Guardians of the Galaxy. Or TMNT getting beat by say... GotG?

Love it! That's pretty awesome. I'm digging it.

I'm not defending the douchy response, but I have received an outbid notice when using my phone to bid on items, even if I'm the sole bidder. I've had the same thing. But I've always had the philosophy of "well, sometimes technology bends me over & touches me badly. I'll suck it up & pay for it" as long as it's a reasonable price. If it was like a $100 or greater thing, thats different though.

Well, it doesn't look horrible. But it didn't exactly give me a happy feeling in my pants either. It probably can't be worse than the Tim Story movies though, right? Hopefully, we'll get Annihilus as the villain since they're doing the Ultimate FF & the Negative Zone... and if so, maybe Doom is a swerve & he's just kind of on the side-lines and cameo'ing? But somehow, I doubt it.

Just use the numbers on Wikipedia or one of the dozen entertainment sites. When they call it "final worldwide total", just live with it. They always do it eventually.

I love that cover. I wish I had about a kazillion or so dollars laying around here. +1 +2 I might have to actually keep an eye on this one & potentially dip into my "am I buying a Silver age key or another VW?" fund if it stays even close to $1k.

Wait a second... when did he actually try to be civil here? Did I miss that part? I'm pretty sure I caught this whole story & I don't remember that part. Dude. Calm down. Act like a rational human being. Nobody wants anyone to bow down or anything. But people don't exactly respond well to by someone coming in and making demands while hurling insults at those same people of whom you're making those demands.

My criticism is leveled at DC being dark across the line. Some characters should absolutely be dark. Some characters shouldn't. DD? Dark. Batman? Dark. Cap? Optimistic. Thor? Light. Avengers? Light. Guardians? Ridiculous. Superman? Hopeful & light. Superman should outshine even the brightest world he's in. But DC seems to want to make everything dark. Not even just serious. Serious is fine. But to make Superman into a dour dark movie is a mistake. Especially after the whole "S means Hope" thing from MoS. Even if you want to portray the world as dark, Superman himself should be a shining light in that darkness. He should contrast to a dark world. It's kind of like watching episodes of the different CSI shows. The regular one is Marvel. Some dark. Some light. But mostly kinda balanced. But DC seems like they decided to steal the cameras from CSI NY, which would work great for Batman, but not so much for Superman. To continue the (admittedly weak) analogy a little further, Superman should be shot with the CSI Miami cameras. But they only have the CSI NY cameras. I understand what you are saying - but I don't think taking a different spin on a character is a bad thing. As a huge Superman fan I actually really like a different take like this - plus there have been dark Superman stories - which have been great. I am ok with a movie and director putting a different spin on a character - I do not need them to be wedded to the source material. But I understand that some people are outraged when a movie deviates from the comics - so to each their own. I'm not outraged, as much as disinterested as a result of deviating from the core of the character so much. It's why I'm pleased with the Marvel approach. Even deviating from the source material, they don't necessarily deviate from the core of the character too far. But it seems like DC/WB (and to a degree, FOX, Sony & the other companies that had licensed properties) have done this with a lot more regularity & been left scratching their heads at the less-than-Marvel results. I have no doubt this will be a good Batman movie. But I have my doubts that it will be any better of a Superman movie than MoS was (which was a good movie, but a bad Superman movie)

My criticism is leveled at DC being dark across the line. Some characters should absolutely be dark. Some characters shouldn't. DD? Dark. Batman? Dark. Cap? Optimistic. Thor? Light. Avengers? Light. Guardians? Ridiculous. Superman? Hopeful & light. Superman should outshine even the brightest world he's in. But DC seems to want to make everything dark. Not even just serious. Serious is fine. But to make Superman into a dour dark movie is a mistake. Especially after the whole "S means Hope" thing from MoS. Even if you want to portray the world as dark, Superman himself should be a shining light in that darkness. He should contrast to a dark world. It's kind of like watching episodes of the different CSI shows. The regular one is Marvel. Some dark. Some light. But mostly kinda balanced. But DC seems like they decided to steal the cameras from CSI NY, which would work great for Batman, but not so much for Superman. To continue the (admittedly weak) analogy a little further, Superman should be shot with the CSI Miami cameras. But they only have the CSI NY cameras.

It`s probably going to look better when we get the HD official version in a few days. Hard to tell everything with this leaked version. Well, considering that MoS was shot in a very similar way (and I was trying to take into consideration that it was a camera phone video in my criticism), I don't expect it to be any significantly brighter or less dreary. Especially judging by the promo art they've already released (a sense of impending doom is the only thing that these pieces have given me)

It still looks like it was shot with a blue filter almost entirely at night. Can we please get a legitimately bright scene once in a Superman movie made after the 1980's? Even the bright sunny scenes had some blue filter slapped over them in MoS & Superman Returns to make them muted & flat.

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Truth. These books shaped the 21st century superhero genre from the Big 2. When Marvel was dying in the early 00's & needed a creative infusion, they found Bendis doing crime comics at Image & they saw what the Wildstorm creators were doing over there & grabbed up as many of them as they could. Millar, Ellis, Quitely, Hitch, Raney, Brubaker, Philips, Casey and others. Every time they had a formerly-middling title that needed a launch team, a Wildstorm creator was on it. 3 of the 4 tentpole Ultimate titles were Ellis or Millar with Hitch involved. X-books need a revamp? Quitely & Casey each on one of the titles. Want to make Captain America into a top-20 book? Brubaker. And Ellis was the granddaddy of them all by starting that swing with Wildstorm changing from (sometimes) pretty looking books with junk writing into a book that pushed the envelope & redefined superhero comics for the 21st century.

Transmet is wonderful. Hunter S Thompson circa Fear & Loathing, in the future, running around with a bowel disruptor gun. Pretty much a journalist's fever dream fantasy. And oh so very very funny.

I know this sounds crazy, but Deadpool is too niche'. The vast majority of people outside of comics have never even heard of him.. I suspect it'll be lucky to do GoG levels of success. GotG was the highest grossing domestic movie of 2014. Fox fall over themselves to make a sequel within 2 years if it does GotG money.