This is exactly the sort of reply I was hoping for. Thanks!

Those are the Stormwatch comics that lead directly to The Authority, yeah. It's one of those series that got started by an Image founder before being taken over by better creators, hence the numbering. See also: Prophet, Supreme, etc. I haven't read them yet, but going through the same process you're going through…

The events of Stormwatch lead to the creation of The Authority, if that's what you're asking. That and a WildCATs/Aliens crossover issue, which I'm kind of disappointed isn't in the big Stormwatch collections.

I'm planning to read Original WriterC.A.T.s first, since I hear that it sets things up for Point Blank and Sleeper. I am very excited for Sleeper though.

I've actually already read Ellis/Hitch and Millar/Quietely Authority, though it was long enough ago that I don't really remember all that much about it. Following creators is my normal strategy, but I'm also a huge nerd for shared universes.

Instocktrades recently had Alan Moore's run on WildC.A.T.s ridiculously cheap, so I decided to grab that and then dive into the Wildstorm universe as a whole. Right now I have that coming to me along with Point Blank and Sleeper, and also the first volume of Ellis' Stormwatch. Anyone have feelings about good…

Interestingly, I actually felt almost the exact opposite. Even before the title of the main mission changes to "Race Against Time," it felt like the first Mass Effect is constantly telling you that everything is urgent in main quest while the sidequests are all incredibly trivial. The dissonance between the…

I did a really similar thing in the original Deus Ex, especially since
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you end up fighting your own well-meaning ex-coworkers at one point. Turning the secret base full of bad guys into a charnel house and then leaving all my former coworkers completely unharmed made me feel like I'd really sent a message to…

Those two look so smug about how warm their arms are.

There's definitely something to be said for using big moves on special occasions. I recently listened to the episode of the Attitude Era podcast where they talked about the piledriver being used so much that it didn't feel particularly noteworthy. With the rareness of the piledriver in recent years, something like…

I get really sad when I think about the future that awaits the women on NXT unless Raw's treatment of its Divas Division improves dramatically in the near future. Since NXT is the only wrestling show that I really watch regularly, I just hope that the people I like who got called up are getting paid better now, and…

It seems like every time I hear praise of Japanese pro wrestling it mentions the stiffer style as a selling point, but the idea of pro wrestlers intentionally hurting each other just immediately turns me off. With all the beloved wrestlers constantly getting injured, it sounds like being a fan of Japanese wrestling…

The direction Mass Effect 3 went with the Renegade options was a bit jarring for me. RenShep was pretty much a Dirty Harry type, but ME3 RenShep was just a complete asshole.

That trailer had such great pacing on the reveal of the movie. First it looks like a generic military movie, then the majestic HALO jump makes it look like a really, really cool military movie, then there's a big "Oh shit" moment when you see that a major city is burning, followed by an even bigger "Oh shit" moment…

I think it works both ways. D- means that something is terrible in an unremarkable and uninteresting way; F means that it's terrible in a remarkable way. Either way the F is there to indicate that there's something special about it.

Same here, but only because I hate floppies.

One thing I appreciate about Bioware games is how the bad options let you roleplay as a person with utter contempt for the laziness of people who give sidequests. "Oh, you want me to deliver a letter to your spouse? I think instead I'll set you both on fire and steal all your money." This works especially well in…

I'm mostly pro-Claremont on this one. Dr. Doom not giving enough of a fuck about Arcade's respect to care makes him seem much more badass. Having Dr. Doom throw a tantrum because someone put a tiny scratch on one of his robots made him look incredibly whiny and pathetic.

Played on ugliest guitar.

I just got a new computer, so I now have literally hundreds of games from Humble Bundles and Steam sales over the past few years that I haven't had the ability to play until now. I played through Bioshock first, and now I'm alternating between Saints Row 2 and Transistor, because Bastion is one of my favorite games. …