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Bagna the Irate Supervillain
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@Mighty_Ponygirl:disqus Sorry, I have knee-jerk spoiler reflexes when it comes to direct responses to Handlen.

Should that be spoilered?

Compared to DC, Marvel has been utterly dominated by big event books for the last decade or so, and they've almost universally been really bad.  Bringing up Flashpoint proves that point since Marvel has had at least three different big line-wide crossover event books since Flashpoint, whereas DC hasn't really had

She'd sacrifice her life for a purple Drazi, but not a green one.

I tend to think that Brian Bendis gets steadily worse the more main characters get added to his comics. 
His run on Daredevil is wonderful, and I really enjoyed Alias as well. 
It's unfortunate that Marvel keeps putting him in charge of massive
team books, because it's pretty much the thing he's absolutely the worst

He was also the voice of The Iron Giant, which wins him my undying affection.

Yeah, everybody knows that Brian Michael Bendis prefers to start his story arcs with an entire issue full of monkey sex.

That "betrayal" was so anticlimactic after the buildup it got in Day of the Dead that I just assumed when I finished season 5 that he had another, much bigger, betrayal later.  I guess that's probably inaccurate though.

The reference to Man Trap and "worth his salt" is my personal favorite line of the week.

It's pretty awesome how the key to Worf's final success over the lead Jem'hadar is his ability to get his ass kicked repeatedly without giving up.  It turns out that getting beaten up so many times in TNG was useful practice after all!

It sounds like the Glory revamp has reached a satisfying conclusion, and was really excellent from start to finish.  I'm looking forward to grabbing it in some form.

I'm a hungry little fly for Suicide Squad-esque comics.

I'm a bit torn about the price point too, but since I haven't actually purchased any comics in a long time, I figure this one seems like a good one to go for.  Also, this is definitely the sort of comic I'd like to see more of.

I'd certainly be in favor of that.  I got really dependent on Comics Alliance to keep me somewhat informed about what's happening in the world of superhero comics, so now I need to find a new website for that.  Since it closed down, I've been binging some on War Rocket Ajax episodes.

Given that the Centauri are an entire species of Napolean cosplayers, I always assumed that fancy sword fighting clubs were mandatory.  It would have been incredibly surprising to me if Londo wasn't in one.

It definitely isn't the sort of thing that I would expect to appeal to everyone, but I personally love it when fictional worlds continue to celebrate their goofiest elements even when they get more serious.

(SPOILERS AND SUCH) I think Zack's story arc in the next season or so is one of my favorite little arcs that B5 did.  The fact that Zack has been such an insignificant figure up to this point left me genuinely uncertain what was going to happen to him, and having a guy without much stake in the big events get involved

I think I should say here that a comic-creator named Michel Fiffe did a really neat fanmade Suicide Squad comic, and now he's making a series called Copra that's essentially just Suicide Squad with the serial numbers filed off.  I haven't gotten a chance to pick it up yet, but everything I've heard about it sounds

The Englehart story that introduced Deadshot's now-standard outfit and ended with Batman and Deadshot fighting on a giant typewriter was lots of fun, but you're right that the character didn't really get developed beyond being a generic villain until Suicide Squad.  Of course, the fact that a lot of the characters in

Ostrander's Suicide Squad really was brilliant in how it used Rick Flag as a sympathetic perspective while developing the less immediately sympathetic characters.  If this issue is focusing on Waller using James Gordon, then the lack of a sympathetic perspective might be even more pronounced than it was before.  That