It's always really interesting when people take those really wide-open games and skip through them as fast as possible. My favorite one is a Morrowind speedrun that took about seven minutes by just flying straight to the final boss and picking up just enough potions on the way to be able to beat him. I think that…

Alternatively, DC needs to start following Marvel more closely. Imitating Marvel of the last couple years would be far preferable to their current imitation of 90s Marvel.

Storm was totally great during the Claremont/Smith era, and I won't listen to anyone who says different.

From an in-universe standpoint I can understand why the death of Uatu would be a big deal, but do any readers actually care about the Watcher? It seems like from a reader standpoint his death is slightly less meaningful than the death of, say, Speedball would be. It seems like kind of a silly thing to base a…

I think the general rule is that characters stay dead unless they're more interesting alive than they are dead. For example, Zatara has stayed dead since Alan Moore's Swamp Thing because he's more interesting as a piece of Zatanna's character development than he is as a character. The same was true of Bucky for…

Given the whole thing where Wolverine has been set up as the counterpoint to Cyclops in the whole post-Schism, post-AvX X-verse, I think there are some interesting possibilities to seeing what would happen to that dynamic when Wolverine dies. Whether or not he comes back (he will) really isn't as important as whether…

Shit; is he alive again already? I was hoping he'd stay drowned for a while.

Unless there was another explanation for it that I missed, it felt like the Angelmaker and his ability to perceive killers went into the territory of full-on magic powers. Personally I generally see this show as having roughly the same relationship to the supernatural as something like Twin Peaks.

I started the first volume of Peter David's X-Factor Complete Collection, which started with the Madrox miniseries and continued with the X-Factor Investigations stuff. The Madrox miniseries was a fun bit of self-aware noir, and the X-Factor series looks to be fun. I've never really had an interest in Madrox before,…

I haven't read enough Power Man and Iron Fist to know how it's handled, but it always felt especially odd to me that the guy with more money than he knows what to do with is always paired with the guy willing to attack all of Latveria over a couple hundred dollars.

I wonder if it'll be about her struggles to become manly enough to eat bacon cheeseburgers.

Oddly enough, the last issue of Brotherhood was included in the X-Statix Omnibus, which is the only way I know about it. It was kind of odd getting the end of a story without knowing who any of the characters were and just seeing them all get killed by X-Force. I feel like they probably would have been better off…

My favorite is Boo!, where Satan shows up at a Halloween party with a jack-o'-lantern head and murders everyone there with a chainsaw. It's amazing.

Unless I'm remembering wrong, the bits of back story we got for Robert Redford indicated that he was as REAL AMERICAN as anyone could be. Presumably the original Nazis are long-since gone (except the one who could upload himself onto an old Cray-precursor), and Hydra has been pretty much all American government since…

I assume that their supposedly brilliant profiling system didn't actually do anything except go through the phone book and target everyone with alliterative names.

He looks like a jack-o'-lantern that's been left on the porch for a year.

It kind of made sense to have a more down-to-earth antagonist in the same vein as Aleksander Lukin actually pulling the Winter Soldier's strings. That said, I was half expecting Robert Redford to pull his face off and reveal that he'd been the Red Skull the whole time.

Ah. That would have been my guess, but I wasn't completely sure.

Which show is the buffet and which one is the dessert? I don't think you actually specified in there.

Actually, looking at it again I think the Ultron Quicksilver is uglier. That facial hair really isn't doing it for me.