It can be the prequel to the Space Trilogy.

Good one! That was totally acceptable, as it's clearly a sendup of the trope and played as much for laughs as for badassery - heck, every single scene of Robo out on patrol is a complete parody of platitudinous lawmen.

My only gripe - I don't even mind the over-the-top, Wire-biting, ridiculous king's crown bit, it's totally comic booky and I love it - is that I hate whenever do-gooders break up a shakedown, they inevitably trash the poor shopkeeper's place nearly as bad as the thugs would've. Glass is expensive, yall!

For real.

Why in the Devil's name is this not live? That would've been perfect.

But Danielle Cage will only be nine in 2025! She needs a few more years on her own show before she's ready for the shield.

Wow, throw in Hawkeye, Vision and SW and you pretty much have the West Coast Avengers right there.

*sigh*…in most cases that someone comes up with a goofy comic book joke, I take glee in them being informed that "the comics really did that." It is with great chagrin that I point you to to the supervillain that literally has babies for hands…Master Pandemonium.

Oy vey. I had completely forgotten about that one. That version is indeed totally not good.

Love Cosmic Odyssey. Jim Starlin, the man who pretty much built Cosmic Marvel, finally getting his mitts on cosmic DC and going for broke. And Mignola's artwork matches the crazy epicness note for note.

I also dig that archetype - I think most people do - yet I hate Gambit.

I think I remember you talking about this haul. Any interesting surprise discoveries as you've been going through it?

I like the slight southern lilt he gives Floyd - it's almost a riverboat gambler version of Deadshot, and it feels right.

Waid's Flash is a truly great run, I'll grant you.

The "Smile" word balloon aims that gun directly at TKJ. Awesome.

Faiza Hussain is awesome - she's in some ways a predecessor to Kamala, in that she's a superhero fangirl of Pakistani descent, and a potential legacy character. It was pretty clear she was being lined up to be the new Captain Britain, if not the new Black Knight (she is the current wielder of Excalibur) but I suppose…

Love Perez' Wondy - definitely one of the best postCrisis reboots (I even prefer it to Byrne's Man of Steel), and probably the most important of her runs after the Golden Age.

"Wonder" is at least three dots in Auspex.

To me, she's one of the most important figures in the history of the medium. In a just world, there would be at least one "Jenette Kahn was awesome" for every five "Dan DiDio sucks".

I'm compelled to reinforce @ponsonbybritt:disqus's three points above - they are all exactly right. I'm gonna be less nice and diplomatic than PB and say that you're letting your nostalgia get in the way of seeing what's actually there.