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ultimatehoratio

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The final chapter of Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s Planetary brings to mind the days when Wildstorm ruled the comics…

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Moon Knight is in the middle of an identity crisis and Marvel doesn’t know quite what to do about it. …

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I’ll cut this series some slack because this isn’t really meant to be ingested in seven slices.  The whole pie…

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ultimatehoratio's Recent Comments
August 6, 2013 3:00 pm @IthoSapien - Wally was Flash for 25 years. My campaign slogan is, "stop cramming Barry Allen down our throats. I remember the guy from my childhood and he was boring. Long live Wally West." Never compromise. Not even in the face of armaggedon.
August 5, 2013 7:44 pm Jimski really twisted some nerd nipples with this one! Keep up the good work.
August 5, 2013 5:26 pm @IthoSapien - Bringing Barry back isn't "something new." It follows DC's pattern of being overly reverent of their Silver Age heroes and then beating us over the head with how awesome and cool they are. Johns is the worst offender, even though it did work with Hal (before DC diluted the brand to near-unreadability). They were killed off for a reason: they were booooring. If you want to put a new guy in the costume, then put a NEW guy in there. Do what Marvel did with Ultimate Spider Man and Nova. Don't try to cram this Silver Age nostalgia down my throat. And, hell, if you don't want Wally as Flash anymore, let him go out with a bang! That's just basic good mythology building. These All My Children sci-fi plotlines where people who have been dead for 20 years come back are just tired. I've read those stories many times over. Take me somewhere new!
August 5, 2013 4:19 pm The ironic part is that when I saw the words "Rom, Spaceknight" I got a semi.
August 5, 2013 2:47 pm When Chris said, "[Geoff Johns, stop trying to tell us that Barry Allen is the most important character in the DC universe and that we should care about Cyborg]," I did a little nerd-cheer. I feel very close to you right now, Mr. Christopher Neseman. Free Wally West.
July 28, 2013 8:06 pm Yeah, it was rather dour. Follows the Nolan model for sure. I guess Warner looked at the math and saw that: Dark Knight + not funny = $$$$ while Green Lantern + funny = $. Still, one joke, Man of Steel? One joke? And at the very end, too. Delivered by Carol Ferris, ironically. You think Batman 4 (aka Man of Steel 2) can use either Braniac or Darkseid now that Marvel is using Thanos and Ultron? My vote for the Batman 4 villain would be the angry spirit of Kevin Costner, now known to the world as Pa Kentornado. Just an idea.
July 28, 2013 7:04 pm I should have qualified my earlier statement by saying I haven't seen Pacific Rim yet. I would imagine that the tones are so different it would be hard to compare. Interesting that The Wolverine and Pacific Rim seem to be suffering from blockbuster fatigue in the US but oversees they're doing pretty well. Good job by the underdogs.
July 28, 2013 3:54 pm The Wolverine did underperform a bit at the US box office, but overseas it's killing. It made about $86 million in foreign box office, giving it $141 million in its first weekend. Not bad on a $120 million budget (not including marketing costs). In foreign markets it's outperforming any of the other X films, and it's not even close. Apparently, US moviegoers are experiencing super hero fatigue but outside the US the public haven't grown tired of these kinds of movies yet. Emphasis on yet. I urge people everyone on iFanboy to see it. It's much more satisfying than Man of Steel or Star Trek 2. I'd put it just ahead of Iron Man 3 for the summer's best blockbuster.
July 27, 2013 11:55 am Wolverine is a PG-13 character made for a PG-13 audience. Complaining about the lack of gore in a summer super hero movie like The Wolverine is like complaining about the lack of graphic sex in a romantic comedy. "Man, Knocked Up was such a cop out. They didn't even show Kathryn Heigl get penetrated."