As kind of bad as it was, it's this reason that I've seen The Wolverine three times: I'll happily support it just in the hopes of getting more movies with a mostly Asian cast. It annoys me that it's not so much the audience that tends to fear a movie where a majority of the cast are non-white, but the studios.

I'd argue that those two are probably bad examples as they're ethnicity/nationality are very much a factor in how those characters act. You can, and they have, done stories about those characters outside of their original backgrounds, and in some cases they've quite good, but they're often entirely based around that…

Well... that certainly explains many things I've suspected about Newt over the years....

Agreed. Personally, I know my problems with Man of Steel are entirely with the writing choices, and not so much with what Superman actually does in the movie. I like Man of Steel for what it is, and like that version of Kal-El within the context of it's story, but I cannot help but feel that it could have been…

Have you ever read the Star Wars: Legacy comics? I really like how they portray the seductive aspects of the Dark Side there, and how hard it can be to not use it when it's sitting right there and would be so helpful. You only have to use a little, it's not wrong and doing it will save people. It's always been…

That Dale Keown art was pretty amazing. His version of the Hulk is pretty much my benchmark because I love it so much, but it's always impressed me just how great he was with guest stars and other characters as well. I just barely managed to find my old copies of Hulk 395/396 a few weeks back where Punisher had a…

I fall somewhere in the middle: I can usually overlook the art if the story's cool enough, but if it's truly terrible, or the story just isn't that great, then I'm out. I skipped out on Wolverine and the X-Men for a while because I greatly disliked the art style they started with. I definitely agree about…

The same can be said in the other direction about the buildings that were destroyed: we aren't explicitly told that they're empty. It's alright for people on both sides of the argument to be a little critical, but that criticism should be of the writer, not the story. Superman punches people through buildings all…

Well, Silver Age Batman was definitely impacted by all those things, but even his later 70s through early 80s adventures tended to be more fun. Batman's early detective stuff as well: he was still very much the noir/pulp detective, but he remained a fairly light character.

Good call. While it's not Macross, I also would have gone with Khyron from Robotech. He gets the extra nod from me for being so batshit insane that just doesn't care... and having one hell of a last battle moment.

Hell yes. Kato's such an amazingly brutal and nasty villain, very much a product of those old school anime. Good choice!

This is my biggest problem as well. These Klingons, and actually the Gorn from the STID tie-in video game, were cool designs for aliens. Okay, well, maybe the Klingons in some cases might be looking a bit too ENEMY MINE for me, but I digress. They're interesting looks and all, but...

This guy, right here. Remember when he wasn't an angry, brooding totem pole for all things grim n' gritty in comics?

I think Cyclops' shift annoys me more than Wolverine's. For Wolverine, it's felt like the kind of thing I could imagine an older war veteran doing: he's seen so much needless bloodshed that he's decided he'd rather teach a younger generation to break the cycle of violence. I always felt that it was like he finally…

Extra points from me for using an excellent picture!

Whenever I get in the mood to break out the older comics, I start with ROM. Or anything else that's got the similar requirements: long enough to be a nice, fulfilling stroll down memory lane, but with a nicely self contained story. Nothing worse than breaking out an older run and realizing that there's a damned…

Scrolled down to see if anyone tossed up Babylon 5 and I am quite pleased. Mostly because it's such a great picture!

Interestingly enough, I'm the exact opposite. I found the Hulk family stuff amazingly tedious and repetitive from overuse of "Hulks", but really like the idea of Banner getting sick of being known only for his green alter-ego. The implementation of that has been very hit or miss, but I still like the initial concept…

Same. I feel Tennant's version of the Doctor, while good, gets placed up higher because of the whole Rose love interest story arc and the fact that he remained in the role for a long enough time to become established as the modern face of the Doctor. I find Smith's version to be much closer to earlier incarnations,…

Yep, totally agree. Lucas actually, IMO, had done a good job of foreshadowing the darker aspects of Anakin's personality, and I believe had done a good enough job of building up the things that would eventually lead to Anakin's fall to the Dark Side. Then they throw that all away and rush it in a total span of maybe…