Looks like an understated, culturally respectful, historically accurate period-piece if you ask me.

Gotta disagree about him being a "bit-player" in Avengers. He was a founding member, he has been a major part of several important iterations of the team, under various guises, and he is responsible for creating what Newsarama recently called the "Greatest Avengers Villain of All-Time." True, he has been mostly…

I certainly didn't intend my post to be construed as a political statement, just as a sort-of-snarky/sort-of-relevant response to your comment. For the record, I do not endorse the Expanding Earth Hypothesis. Carry on.

He collects a royalty on his creations, but Marvel can use them in whatever way they see fit.

This seems like as good a place as any to post my Bruce Wayne dream-casting.

All good points being made here. Now, for the democratic response, we turn to Jose Conseco: http://gawker.com/5985210/jose-c…

I'll just chime in here on the issue of the Captains Marvel.

You beat me to it.

Mainframe animation was pretty good for the time, and responsible for awesome shows like Beast Wars (or, as it was known here in Canada, Beasties), ReBoot, and Shadow Raiders. Can we not forgive its dated visuals for content which is leagues beyond that which is being produced nowadays?

I've had this conversation so many times, and my thesis on the subject is basically thus: Both Superman and Batman are concepts created to represent the triumph of good over evil (and once you take that away, you're no longer talking about Batman and Superman, just characters who look like them and possess their…

I disagree. The story built heavily to that moment, and her death had tremendous significance, not only to that particular story, but to just about every X-Men story since, given that it (and by extension the immediately following resurrection-death-resurrection-ascension combo) lead directly to Scott and Emma taking…

The Kevin Smith explanation addresses this, albeit briefly, dismissing it as being ridiculous to assume that Superman would waste his time zapping each follicle individually. Not that I agree with that (super-speed would certainly make it practical) but at least one of the entrants in this competition has…

I certainly hope they don't go this route in "Winter Soldier." The Ultimate version of Falcon is a scientist and created the suit himself, which would make for a great origin, or they could a minor cue from the 616 version and say that the suit is based on Wakandan technology as a sideways nod to Black Panther …

I can't get enough of this concept, even the crazy sci-fi stuff from "The Quickening," and given a long-form arc-based format on cable or online without network restrictions I think it could be truly fantastic.

Stormwatch needs to go away. The Warren Ellis Stormwatch (along with much of The Authority by Ellis and others) is a really great book and people really ought to track it down if they haven't read it, but it was that time and that place. The current New 52 version has drained it of everything that made it special or…

If only that question were addressed in the very first paragraph.

No Johnny Storm on the Avengers. The fella to the left of Thor is Sunspot, the guy to Cap's right is Cannonball.

Always existed in their own separate worlds... except for when Beast, Spider-Man, Wolverine and Storm joined the Avengers at various points. Or during the company wide crossovers that happen practically every summer. Or when Ms. Marvel served with the X-Men. Heck, since the 70s there has been a fairly regular…

There's a moment in "Superman: Birthright" where earth is invaded by "Kryptonians," but it is ultimately revealed as a Lex Luthor-engineered hoax. I'm holding out hope that this is some kind of similar situation. Maybe Zod et al make Kal-El think that Krypton is still around so that he'll question his loyalty to…

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