I was a kid who had read X-Men comics for years, but was also already getting into anime at the time this cartoon came out. As such, I thought the animation looked so terrible (even in the opening sequence) that I couldn't even watch it. I remember being flabbergasted that the Batman cartoon was so much better.

A Victorian geneticist transformed by Apocalypse is sort of interesting, yes. A Victorian geneticist who dresses up like a glam Dracula and calls himself Mister Sinister? I know these are superhero comics, but damn.

It was always voluntary. Pretty much nobody follows it anymore.

Lo, I am vindicated!

I thought Claremont said as much in an interview somewhere, but I might have confabulated it. I dunno.

They should totally do the ridiculous Goblin Queen/Inferno stuff just so we can see Daredevil get in a fight with a demon-possessed mailbox.

Force fields, too! Don't forget the force fields!

We've already had a little person as Bond movie. For Your Height Only, starring Weng Weng.

There's a lot of stuff like that in X-Men comics (hell, superhero comics in general), where the writer had a pretty good idea but editorial insisted they drag it out/change it/drag it out some more.

I haven't read all that much stuff with him in it, but in the old Official Handbooks of the Marvel Universe his power was that he had complete control of his own molecular structure. So he could turn into anything, basically. Seemed kind of vague but not that bad. I guess it got worse?

The "Avi" is kind of a giveaway.

That's part of the reason it's not happening. He's too involved in PR, and too much the "hero to children everywhere like Gamera" guy to turn heel.

NO

Let's hurl a brick-e-mart.

"The profile, along with both Tumblrs, are a reminder of the ever encroaching power of the next generation."

I think he meant "where exactly does Sheamus think [Sheamus] is from," since Sheamus is also not from the USA.

Orange is the New Black careened into self-parody halfway through the last season (or maybe even earlier). In the last episode of that season, I recall saying "well, that was good for a while, now shut it down".

The weird thing is that Cena himself has been pretty open about wanting — or even needing — a heel run at this point.

I missed almost all of Cena and Orton's big runs, and as a result I don't really hate either of them. I didn't get a chance to burn out on them. Orton, in particular, strikes me as somebody that does a fantastic job of physically playing a character in the ring.

It looks like a mobile game.