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Yes, despite the undercurrents of humor, there's nobody treating the Hulk as a joke. Of course, Hulk would never actually Ike Turner a woman lying on the floor like that. He's got a soft spot for the ladies. We'll just keep chalking that up to Loki's influence.

That's a good observation. Cap has a handful of blonde moments in the movie. I think for him to become the character he's meant to be, that's going to fall to the wayside by the time Avengers 2 comes out. Kind of concerned that the problem with the next movie will be that they've worked passed...

Whoops. Damn damn damn....

OK, I'm now reading the PDF. I am not far into it, but I can tell that this system is, by my way of thinking, on the right track. It doesn't use the traditional array of ability scores, for example. Those things are pretty meaningless to superheroes. I probably don't need to know how strong...

Shows they knew the axeman was drawing near. I wonder if they can evade the hooded one as long as "Chuck" did?

You know what? I just went back to Hulu and found the 8-bit episode that was being discussed here. And I laughed! So, I lose the points I accumulated for saying that the show was simply absurd and not funny. OTOH, it did end with a big hug coda.

You're not Chevy Chase incognito, are you? He says stuff like that in every interview now. He correctly points out that the show stopped being about the diverse groups of people who attend community college long, long ago. It's doing now what the Simpsons did after about ten years: stopped being...

Thanks for asking. Look at Stacie's post. She did more to sell a copy of the game to me than anything else I've read. Here are the main things the site should do to entice readers and potential customers: State the design goals. What makes this game special or different from other superhero...

Thanks for the post. You've convinced me. I just bought a copy off of Amazon. Hope it's everything it's been cracked up to be. I adored Mutants & Masterminds for a while, but it wound up falling into the same trap as the superhero games that came before it. It has a really great character...

Having to be online at all times to play a video game seems exquisitely. If either Blizzard or my ISP goes down, so much for my gaming plans for that night. Having said that, I'm curious about co-op. Is it drop-in, drop-out (i.e. the single-player campaign isn't separate from the multiplayer...

This is what I'd assumed out-of-hand (pun intended. Shouldn't we be seeing him already? I recall Harenhall changing hands a few times, but I don't recall Tywrin having a lengthy stay. Then again, my memories are fuzzy. I kind of powered through it on audiobook.

Look forward to hearing your opinions when you have a minute (guess that's what work is for). Particularly interested to know if it cloys after a week or so.

Well, he rampaged quite a bit. Led his forces against the surface. Teamed up with Dr. Doom and the Hulk. No blatant loss of life in the Comics Code days, but he probably doled out a few black eyes at the very least. Many heroes have gone through a dark phase or two. But the context of domestic...

Well, in The Ulimates, Mark Millar made pretty much all of the Avengers pretty vulgar. Captain America is a hyper-violent bone-breaker, the Wasp is this disgusting egg-laying bug-woman, and the Hulk eats people. That's Millar for ya. And fans can't get enough of'im. Funny thing about Pym is...

This is populism, a most appalling way of determining the quality of works of art or fiction (albeit a popular one). There seems to be a misconception, often touted in this very forum, that because personal preferences are simply a matter of opinion, they are thus completely arbitrary and...

I think yuo'd be surprised how little traction Hank Pym has these days. Series like the Ulimates line show that fans are okay with rewriting history. It's no less sever than, say, making Hawkeye a SHIELD assassin. If it makes sense, it works. Moreover, I don't think you'd be surprised at how...

True, Iron Man, Cap, and Thor showed up for the induction, but they were basically just guest stars in the Avengers at that time. Not really "on leave" as much as "on loan". Usually, they'd rotate them around a bit, Cap in one adventure and a few issues later Iron Man would pop in. There's...

The main reason it was Hank Pym who built Ultron and not Stark is that the latter wasn't on the team when Roy Thomas came up with the villain. Tony Stark is the engineer with a specialization in computers, robotics, and weapon systems. Up until the day he built Ultron, Hank Pym was a scientist...

I was thinking about this possibility as well. Coulson didn't really strike me as anything but an utterly disposable character, but he seems to have gained sufficient traction to perhaps warrant a return. The Vision serves well as that "outsider-looking-in" archetype that Whedon likes to...

Yeah, I read that. It's not a new sentiment. He said a long time ago that Titanic gave him a big ol' pile of "eff you" money. Well, at this point, Avengers is one of those movies you're either going to go see, or you're not. I don't think there are many fence-sitters left to be swayed by a...