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May 2, 2012 12:51 pm You forgot Blade, the movie that started the Marvel movie renaissance.

April 10, 2012 10:36 am I liked the premise of Wonder Woman #1 (2006). Wonder Woman once again has a secret identity that works for the government. Logically it was in the D.E.O. (DC's answer to SHIELD). Too bad Allan Heinberg was chronically late and misfired the execution of that concept. But it's the one that best echos the history of Wonder Woman while keeping it modern.

April 2, 2012 11:54 am Thanks Conor for making that position clear for this site. If The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes season 2 follows the pattern season 1 did, episodes (or a season pass) will be available on ITunes (for Apple) or Zune (for Xbox 360) within a week of the show's original airdate.

March 14, 2012 7:40 pm "Spectre’s unique power-set has made him hard to confine to a single series, and hard for readers to root for given his near omnipotence." The Spectre (1992) by John Ostrander managed to do this for over 60 issues. It helped that Ostrander, a former theology student, laid out well thought out rules for what the Spectre could and could not do. Something desperately needed for magic based characters. The series didn't end because of poor sales. Like Sandman, Ostrander had a clear definition of where the story was going and how Jim Corrigan's story would end. It was only in other hands, the Hal Jordan Spirit of Redemption (bleh) and the Day of Vengeance/Crispus Allen eras that the character became unrelateable again. With the DC reboot, I say give it to Ostrander again to see if he has a new take on the character that was best in his hands.

March 13, 2012 11:19 pm You beat me posting that excellent article. Disney has widely gotten thumbs down for the marketing of John Carter but the majority of those problems rested on director Andrew Stanton's shoulders.Read the article for the arrogant decisions he had final say on. Creators often dismiss studio marketing, sometimes rightly so, but many of them know what they're doing in selling a film.

March 10, 2012 2:57 pm Whoa. They adapted The Flash #1 (1987). Great obscure story.

February 20, 2012 1:12 pm Charles Xavier's dream of mutants and regular people living together equally was one of comics' highpoints, a sci-fi commentary on civil rights. Weak editorial oversight allowed writers to take the low road revealing one-right-after-another hidden secrets that've ruined the character. It's like the people who keep printing dirt about JFK or MLK decades after their deaths. This is why I stopped reading X-Men.

January 31, 2012 4:13 pm I know Gaiman is held in higher esteem than McFarlane but this lawsuit always seemed greedy and shady to me. McFarlane's mistake was that he had an oral contract instead of the industry-standard work-for-hire contract.

January 25, 2012 6:23 pm @Ryan Because he's Canadian, not a Ruskie. Culture plays a big part of your drink of choice. So it's beer. He's doing this so he can stand to be around a group of people. Imagine you sense of taste is so great, you kiss a bar floozie and know what she ate. Revolting. Logan is essentially slumming and needs beer goggles if he wants human contact. This makes sense when you think about Wolverine's love of samurai Japan. It was a culture obsessed with cleanliness. (James Clavell's "Shogun" does a great job illustrating how filthy westerners were versus Japanese.) You rarely saw him drunk on sakai in those flashbacks.

January 25, 2012 12:19 pm Exactly the opposite. Much like the explanation of why Wolverine smokes awful cigars (so he can bear the stink of regular people), Wolverine would just want something to dull his senses. With his healing factor, getting drunk is not impossible but it is difficult. So quantity over quality is what he's going for. That's why he's always shown drinking lots of working class beers. Logan will get whatever's cheapest: Bud, Miller, Coors, Pabst.