That's Bendis for you.  He just throws everything out without any explanation.
"They're Skrulls."
"But we couldn't detect them, even with our Skrull-detecting technology."
"These are special Skrulls."
"Also, why are they all suddenly religious fanatics?"
"Because their planet got blown up."
"But that happened thirty years…

A classic Defenders is what I want, but Namor and the Silver Surfer are probably tied in to Fox' FF license.  Damn it.

This!  Oh, how I LOATHE those qualities.  Every so often I give him another shot and pick up a random issue of something he's written and invariably it's replete with one or both of these things.

Yes, but the Ultimate Universe isn't the "real" world any more than any other comic universe is.  It's just a different world.

I'm sure he thought he was, yes.

I would recommend the WHAT IF issue that spins out of this, though, where Korvac annihilates the Avengers, then resurrects them as his soldiers and declares war on the universe.  Written by Mark Gruenwald.  Fantastic stuff.

@sconn, you should check the old UNCANNY X-MEN where Spidey got CRUCIFIED.  That was an awesome story.  (190-191 I believe.)

Not always.  But often.

And he mostly sucks in general.

I think it was Reagan who fired him.

St. God Yes, that was what they said.  It was an elaborate psychodrama wherein their spirits all mutually agreed (how?) to mindwipe each other (why?) so they could learn/remember how important each of them were to one another.  Which, you know, they weren't.  The EVENTS they all lived through were important.  But did,…

I second this notion just on the off-chance we get to see Anna Torv wearing Harbinger's costume.

I've never gotten over NBC cancelling MR. SMITH back in 1983.  Fuckers.

…it wasn't obvious I was trolling?  Sorry.  Wasn't even trying to hide that.

I'm still waiting for a good explanation as to how Desmond was able to project himself into the sideways world and come back.  It would be consistent if it were a parallel timeline.  If it's actually a spiritual psychodrama taking places decades in the future it doesn't make any fucking sense.

Wellllll…religion kinda IS bullshit, so…

That part wasn't very good either, though.  It was all way too predictable.  It seemed pretty obvious to me that dull and earnest Jack was going to succeed Jacob at first, and then sacrifice himself as he was wont to do, and then the curveball choice (Hurley) was going to succeed him.

Cowboys in Space:
Cool in 1973…maybe
Uncool by 2000 (Thank you, Clint)

The point is that we're all nerds.  Just our being here, reading an article about the renewal of FRINGE, makes us nerds.

STAR TREK was not gritty.  STAR TREK was not trying to be gritty.  So, it's kind of silly to call it out for it's appalling lack of grittiness, isn't it?