Honestly though, the only time my stomach can handle Land’s artwork is when he draws monsters. His Colossus is really good, as is his Hulk. He even drew a decent (if very very very very sexxxxy) Ruby Summers during Secret Wars.

Well Ego IS a planet-sized head. Kurt Russell is Ego. You do the math!

Starfox was 1000% the right choice for movie-Quill’s dad, especially because that opens us up for him to kiss Gamora only to find out she’s his half sister! And if you add the connections with Mentor and Phyla-Vell and Moondragon and Drax, the Guardians become a really interesting family.

MtG was the first instance I remember of feeling like I was aging out of something. It happened with 8th edition, when the card borders went from that old scroll-looking weathered page from a spellbook aesthetic, to the new much easier to read look. For some reason that completely shattered my suspension of disbelief;…

My point exactly. Instead of a lady scientist in street clothes, let’s make toys out of Guy Pierce in a suit. Boys will be buying those off the shelves like they’re going out of style!

FWIW, they never did make decent toys out of Killian. I was working in a comic shop when IM3 came out and the few toys that movie did…

And what an exciting action figure they made out of the movie’s villain

I’d love to hear more if you wanted to PM me (somehow, don’t really know the intricacies of Kinja as a platform). I also homebrewed up a set of rules, leaning pretty heavily on Deadlands (the pre-Savage Worlds versions) and Unknown Armies. It wasn’t setting specific.

Yeah 100% agree.

True to my username, let me give you a longer and more involved answer (though I agree with all the fine folks of the io9 comments). I’m not going to spoil anything explicit from the plot, but I may allude to the kinds of things you could see in headlines in articles such as this.

When DC/WB gives me a movie about Sumo wrestlers teaming up with CIA superspies to battle Soviet werewolves on the moon, I’ll go see one of their movies.

I’ve had a steadily growing file on an external hard drive of my custom setting.

I’ve been DMing on and off since about 1995. I heartily endorse all the 5th edition stuff. It’s objectively the most playable the rules have ever been with lots of great attention paid to the sorts of details players and DMs appreciate. It may take a little studying up, but I find the new adventure books to be…

I’ve been slowly growing my custom setting since undergrad. My most inspired move is every time I want to incorporate ideas from other sourcebooks, I make it another continent or nation or island or faction or whatever.

Best part:

Ha! I remember switching over to Valiant for a bit, which was a big deal because teenage me had intense feelings of comic brand loyalty.

Traditionally, Luke is a bit of a grump who makes a big deal about getting paid but who always gives the money back. A lot of the old Luke Cage 70s comics ended with him being unable to accept cash from someone who needed it more than him.

All appropriate nitpicks. I admit that Deadpool exists in a weird space for me. The Clone Saga and Onslaught sort of drove me away from comics in the 90s. Though I’m certain I must have read issues with Deadpool back in the day (I was a 90s kid, I was hella reading X-Force) I remember playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance…

That’s... a fabulous take on Liefeld, one I’ve never heard before.

I’m having trouble accessing it for some reason but Comic Book Resources hosts a column called “Comic Book Legends Revealed” and the 562nd entry is about this very question. Check it out sometime!

I’m confident that most, if not all of DC’s creative teams have exciting and passionate creative goals. When I personify DC as a monolithic entity (which I really shouldn’t, after all corporations are not people) I’m referring to the attitudes and policies of a core group of executives. The big offenders are Dan…