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As far as I can tell, they're all up there.

Vague terminology
I'm interested in exactly what the phrase "episodes of" means in this context. Everything? Selected seasons? A rolling selection like with Hulu?

Have Mercy
Is everyone out of jokes at this point?

Respect for Reitman
Potentially more accurate headline: "Ivan Reitman Polite, Avoids Hurting Ashton Kutcher's Feelings"

I was pretty unclear about it, but what I was (poorly) trying to say is that they're stacking the decks against themselves by trying to force this to be a tent-pole blockbuster. I'd never root against a movie to be good.

Doomed to fail
It's disappointing that these are the lengths a studio has to go to just to get an adaptation like this made. I'm not a fan of Luhrmann, so maybe I'm being unfair, but I don't really get the feeling that this is going to be a restrained, faithful adaptation of the original material.

As noted above, Dante/Iron Man/Ryu. I'd love to play as Spider-Man, but he sucks so much in these games. Or there's some trick to playing him that's eluding me.

Dante/Iron Man/Ryu gives me a nice combo of range, speed and balance, but I'm sure people could point out the technical inefficiencies of a team like this.

Telltale Games
I know a lot of people like the studio, but I've never really played a game from Telltale that kept my interest. I played the first episodes of the Monkey Island and Sam and Max series that they did, but both of them felt like kind of cookie-cutter adventure games.

Turning point
The moment when Mike coughs up the "blood" is the highlight of the show, as far as I'm concerned.

Turning point
The moment when Mike coughs up the "blood" is the highlight of the show, as far as I'm concerned.

It's also possible I've seen these and just forgotten about them.

I do, for five or six years now. I've managed to get through my time here without seeing one of those statues, though it was the first thing that sprang to mind when I thought of iconic Chicago fictional characters.

@GeoGreg: Siskel already has an entire center to himself.

Shit, I wasn't even close. See below.

CHICAGO KICKSTARTER THREAD
Ideas for Chicago statues:

When I was in high school, I almost got fired from Waldenbooks (a Borders subsidiary) for not selling enough of those goddamn discount cards. They really, really wanted us to push them on people.

Seeing as how Hulu Plus already carries basically all the shows I watch (minus sporting events), I'm kind of considering it.

They already have Opeth, what more could you want?

Great lineup
Can they just bring this exact same roster to Chicago for Lolla this year?