Just finished this last night. I wasn't happy with it at first — it seemed morose and draggy. Which of course is perfectly apt, but it made it difficult for me to get through. But once I did... yeah. The last few chapters were sold ass-kickery, and in a weird way, it was made more awesome by the fact it was…

Also, take it from the top. The publisher stopped putting numbers on the books for some reason so that might be a little extra work to find out the sequence — but as the novels do build one upon the other, it's best to read them in order. They COULD stand alone, I guess, but it wouldn't be the same.

I don't agree that superhero/science-fantasy flicks is exhausted. I think it's just that not everyone does it right. I do agree that part of the problem is the formulaic approach many of these are taking. There DO need to be new ways to present superheroes. Those aren't even hard to come up with (I can think of…

Batman beating the shit out of Bane is a spoiler? Seriously? I thought it was a given. #semisnark

I noticed that too! I thought that was hilarious!

You're welcome.

You haven't seen Super 8 yet? Holy crap, go see it!

I enjoyed the film.

It's...similar. I don't know about "ripped off". But similar. And honestly, I didn't even think about that while watching the film.

Power Dude, is my guess.

I also agree that the gender-flipped JLA (and villains) was genius and so epically made of win.

It's a character from Umbrella Academy.

That is awesome.

Clearly Sohmer has PSYCHIC POWERS.

Of all the retarded retcons, this is the redardedest.* Moreso than Spider-Man's Brand New Day, because while it's basically the same thing, DC has to have seen how much the fans "loved" BND.

Really? Cyberdyne has a HAL? Talk about an SF double-whammy!

I enjoyed Thor. It wasn't the best thing ever to hit my eyes, but as a comic fan who isn't specifically a Thor fan, I found it a nice change of pace from the "superhero movie" formula. True, the love angle and the redemption felt rushed, but I've gotta say it worked in most other respects. One thing in particular I…

I had the same exact thought. But I'm guessing the reason is because they didn't want it to go up against Transformers 3. That's just asking to fail — in Hollywood terms, anyway, where first-weekend box office is the first metric of success.

"Warrioress" is a word? REALLY? Not according to my dictionary.

Thank you, I had not seen that other article. With your additional info, I am satisfied. :)