James696

January 24, 2012 12:13 pm He's supposedly one of the more powerful Avengers, but I can't think of a single truly notable thing he's done on the team other than branching off to found the WCA.

January 24, 2012 12:10 pm I agree that Mantis deserves a spot on this list. She is to the Avengers what Faith or "the Fat Lady" was to Joe Kelly's JLA run; ramming down the character's throat that a character is "amazing" or "inspiring" doesn't make it so. For those not aware, Faith's power is that she can "inspire confidence in other people". If this sounds like a cheap and convenient Maguffin employed by Kelly to explain why his new pet character deserves a spot on the JLA, that's because it is.

January 24, 2012 11:55 am What makes Hank Pym such a great character is what makes him such a terrible Avenger. He's easily the most flawed character on the team and despite his best intentions, he's almost always showed his true colors as a "bad person" whenever things have gotten rough, but the fact that he has always picked himself back up and confronted his mistakes head-on has made him into a really inspiring character over the years. I had forgotten about Living Lightning completely. An academic with electrical powers, now who does that remind you of? Dann and Roy Thomas might as well have called him 'Totally Not Black Lightning'.

January 5, 2012 1:26 pm I don't have a problem with this. Unlike Superman, Batman's origin hasn't be rebooted over and over again, it's more that new writers add bits and pieces to the existing origin or write bits and pieces out. We haven't really seen a major reboot of Batman's full origin story since the days of Year One and that's why I was always going to be more excited for this book than Superman: Earth One. Sidenote: Plastic Man doesn't need rebooting again, he just needs Kyle Baker back on his side.

December 22, 2011 12:37 pm No Sandman?

December 22, 2011 12:32 pm He probably made that DVD with an illegal torrent, too. What an asshole.

December 22, 2011 9:50 am The Man of Steel quietly browsing through used DVDs at a Barnes and Noble is a pretty surreal mental image.

November 30, 2011 11:12 am I always saw Doom's Castle as more of a Laser Tag venue, and by 'Laser' I mean 'Blinding Atomic Death Ray'.

November 30, 2011 11:08 am *vivid colors, intricate panel layouts

November 30, 2011 11:07 am These books were great, and to my surprise they hold up fine today. Anyone who's reading the current Daredevil book and likes its more bombastic flavor (intricate vivid colors, panel layouts, old-school sound effects etc.) really ought to check out the 'Batman Adventures' and 'Batman and Robin Adventures' back issues.