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Tony Starks the Ironman
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FEED ME A STRAY CAT


FEED ME A STRAY CAT

EDIT: And once people my age are considered "old farts" in the industry, I'm sure Kyle will be once again relegated to the dustbin.

No, I just think it's fairly useless to complain. I'm not looking at the trend as industry-wide. It IS industry wide, but it only seems to affect characters at different times. While some characters are decidedly grim-and-gritty-and-"edgy" (Punisher, Lobo), it seems like DC and Marvel always spend some amount of time

@Hunter Gathers

Not to say that it's a bad thing to whine, but I still don't get how comics fans get angry about their favorite heroes being made grim-and-gritty. It's a serialized medium. This approach to Barry will be popular for a few years, and then some new hot writer will come along and abandon the "grim-and-gritty" formula.

Now, if the above post had occurred in IDENTITY CRISIS, THEN I might have hated it.

Allow me to translate
"WHINE WHINE WHINE! THINGS ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE WAY THEY WERE WHEN I READ COMICS IN MY YOUTH!"

@SPICOLI

@meat in spector

CLASSIC COMEBACK!

THOSE GIRLS PRETEND LIKE THEY'RE NOT WOMEN, BUT THEY ARE!

@Yeeshey

Well THIS conversation is dead on arrival.

Hair gel and what it makes me remember
In college, I used to live with a guido. He had a collection of 5 different types of hair gel, each of a different type of consistency. He went to the gym and drank three protein shakes daily. His side of the room had the most amazing wall decorations known to man: a giant

I'm with Clueless Neophyte. I was expecting crank material.

WINNER:

I second the love of Whiskeytown's cover of "A Song For You." Being a Ryan Adams fan, I'm biased, but that really was a kick-ass rendition. If you search through enough of his live recordings, you can actually find covers of "Ooh Las Vegas" and (I think) "Return of the Grievous Angel."


My grandmother thinks he's an attractive man.

@Cmndr_x