Northstar has been officially out of the closet for over twenty years now, so it probably doesn't quite count as very recent.

The first few story arcs of Skullkickers are available in webcomic form right now if you want to check it out for free. They're releasing it at a significant delay from the printed and comiXology releases, but there's enough of it to get a pretty good idea of what it's like: http://skullkickers.keenspo…

Nightcrawler seems to be a really controversial topic on Disqus. My comment about him was flagged for moderation as well.

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

One good argument for putting Wolverine in the Kitty Pryde role (aside from his massive popularity) is that he's the only character played by the same actor in both time periods, which might make having him switch back and forth work better. It does kinda suck how nearly every X-Men movie has been all Wolverine all…

Don't forget the right to never, ever fulfill any sort of schedule or deadlines. I've been getting into the Valiant stuff lately, and reading stories of how badly Image screwed Valiant over during the production of Deathmate is really funny, especially the story of Layton personally flying to Rob Liefeld's home and…

Nightcrawler's big fight scene was terrific, but I really wish that movie had more of the awesome swashbuckling Nightcrawler and less of the self-hating Nightcrawler. I'm happy that both of those sides of him were represented, but the whole penance-tattoos thing shifted it waaay too far towards the latter.

Hawkeye really needs a movie that gives him an actual personality, because the generic commando with a bow doesn't really resemble the ex-carny from the comics.

That sounds awesome. I hope Batroc jumps out at completely unexpected times like Cato in the Pink Panther movies in order to fight Captain America.

I assume it refers to their ability to move on you with the speed of a centipede and injure any motherfucking contender. If the whole evil organization in this show turns into an extended Five Deadly Venoms reference, then I will be completely okay with it.

The Moore comics are getting reprinted but it sounds like the marketing people aren't actually allowed to say his name, which made it really confusing and ambiguous for a while. I thought it was annoying how the Neil Gaiman run got cut off right as he was going from world-building to actual story developments, so the…

If you haven't seen them yet, Undisputed 2 and 3 are my favorite Scott Adkins films, simply because Yuri Boyka is a really fun character, and it has some other awesome guys like Michael Jai White and Marko Zaror (star of Mirageman). I'm a bit surprised that Michael Jai White didn't get more love in this article. …

He must be the Littlefinger of the group.

Michael Jai White as the Bronze Tiger is some potentially awesome casting, and I really hope the show doesn't end up completely wasting him. I'd say more, but every time I mention him I just want to quote Black Dynamite all day. Your knowledge of biological scientific transmogrification is only surpassed by your…

It would have massive crossover potential when the villains who get trained in the Taskmaster show get killed by the heroes of all the other shows.

I'm still hoping that against all odds there will be a Marvel's Agents of S.W.O.R.D. complete with cheesy alien costumes to come out of this. It already has that apparently elusive female lead character built in!

I think this movie is using Scott Lang (second Ant-Man and star of the current FF book) rather than Pym, presumably because he's a bit more of a blank slate and doesn't have all the baggage that would come with a Hank Pym Ant-Man movie

I visited the library this week, so I grabbed Avengers: Kree-Skrull War and Paul Cornell's Knight and Squire miniseries.

Scott Adkins is terrific at movie martial arts stuff and he's a fairly okay (or at least fun) actor.

I don't think I'm really any more or less hyped about it than I am about most other Valiant comics, but the Valiant relaunch has had really consistently excellent pairings of creator to title, and Matt Kindt seems pretty awesome, so I'm excited to read it.  I will say that putting the entire Valiant line on sale for a…