ChrisMoses

What is this? I love it.

That guy needs to **** off. Insulting "movie audiences" is not the way to earn fans. Especially when he later says he had intended to see "Piranha 3D."

Similar... But not quite.

It's a good one. Make sure you get the deluxe version (May be only on iTunes). The Score is great as well.

One mission per evil ex (except the twins are together, naturally).

If you can adjust Scott, begin him as a Martial Arts Scrapper who turns into a Katana Scrapper when he earns "the Power of Love."

Please let me know when you've completed this! And you have to have like every enemy drop inspirations/enhancements to simulate the coin-drops.

I'm out on the Ultimate line. I haven't enjoyed them since the reboot. Ultimate Spider-Man is still the best, but I'd rather just preclude all involvement with the universe rather than just go for one book. Brubaker's Captain America has a history of excellence, but I just haven't liked it lately. And I don't like that I pay a buck extra for the Nomad back-up story I don't want. I mentioned Thor has seemed slow since Siege, but I'm behind on it. And Invincible Iron Man should have been in there... An oversight if I did miss it. I'm with that title for as long as Fraction is.

Use it to your advantage! "Hi, I'm Troy Hickman. You may remember me from such fine Top Cow comics as 'Witchblade' and 'The Darkness.' Perhaps you'd like to try Twilight Guardian? It has all of that stuff from the others. Trust me, I created them."

Sounds good. I'm still behind so I don't know how OMIT occurred and progressed, but this sounds good.

Carnage returning - Last seen ripped in half by the Sentry in space in a throwaway scene in New Avengers #1. I knew that wouldn't kill the symbiote (it's a space-faring alien), but I wonder if they'll try to keep Cletus Kasady alive through it.

The Amazing Spider-Man story is interesting simply because Dan Slott will be writing it all, he's great. And I like Clayton Crain returning to draw Spider-Man and Stefano Casseli should have a good take.

I'll also be sure to track the Avengers issues. The Walking Dead should be amping up in time for their TV debut. I really like Jonathan Hickman, but I can't get into his Fantastic Four (just not a fan of the team), though his Secret Warriors has been cool. Cosmic Marvel has been dull since Thanos Imperative began. I don't know if the issues have been slightly delayed, but it feels like it has been a long time since Thanos Imperative: Ignition kicked things off. I think I'm still going through withdrawals due to the Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova cancellations. And, it seems cool that Herc will be going semi-cosmic in his return. Bendis' Scarlet #1 was cool, so I'm in for some more. Invincible is always fun.

After a fairly dull fast few months or so, it's cool to see that Marvel may get more interesting again. Just when I was thinking about getting back out on comics, too.

One of the specific problems mentioned was that no one wanted Stalkers for SFs and late game content, so the -Regen would address that.

The set probably does still need something extra for less specialized PvE, but the -regen would address the end-game issues.

What if...

Assassin strike itself, in PvE, mind you, had a very small cone to it? Maybe slightly wider than Shadow Maul. But the hits on the primary target only get the secondary damage-type so it's weaker.

As far as, "Well it's still too annoying to get back into Hide!," I think that's just the limitation of the set and isn't anything new. And I don't think it can still fill the intended role if you make it easier to get back into hide or increase performance out of hide.

I do agree with the increased recharge of Placate though.

I think I had this happen long, LOOOONG ago. My first character was Energy/Ice. Then Energy/Energy a few years later, and I can't recall any complaints recently about them. Either I got better with KB- management or Infinity gave up complaining.

I think there are more new players in the Blaster AT, actually. Arcanaville recently reposted the numbers for created characters, and blasters were at the top of the list. I think that high damage attracts newer players used to perhaps some of the less dynamic MMOs.

I may have skipped Explosive Blast on my Energy/Energy. I can't recall, but I personally didn't like it, because I blap. If I opened with Energy Torrent followed by Explosive Blast, the enemies would be down the hall even if I had aimed the attacks into a wall, and my usual follow-up is Energy Punch/BoneSmasher/Total Focus if they have the audacity to still be alive. However, he also PvP'd a lot so there were reasons not to bother with Explosive Blast.

But I love the knockback. It's saved me more times than I can count. In fact, I think that my earliest blasting experience (well, that's not true, my very first was Ice/Fire) with Energy Torrent has sullied me against enjoying a lot of the other primaries that don't have any KB. It's one of the reasons I just can't get into Fire/ at all.

Is it now? I have read a couple of the Gillen books, but they just seemed so sporadic. Maybe I've just missed an issue here or there.

PRETENTIOUS!?

... I can see it. I think you're supposed to think that about some of the characters, which it makes it enjoyable when things go wrong for them.

I've only read the set-up with the vampire story (Jubilation is infected), so I really haven't seen enough to judge it. Just, after Necrosha, I'm wary of this path.

One More Day and One Moment in Time defy logic because Joey Q has an obviously personal stake in the matter. Logic dare not penetrate those walls.

I really liked the Messiah stuff... Does it have that reputation? I haven't heard that opinion on it.

I'm not the biggest Hulk fan to begin with, though I followed Incredible Hulk leading up to the Hercules hostile takeover of the title, and found myself enjoying Hercules more than I ever did the Hulkster.

Prince of Power is just a 4-issue mini-series, right? If it becomes a monthly I would definitely add it.

I find most of the animal-themed villains to be sort of lame.

The exception is the Lizard. Dr. Curt Connors had great motivations from the very beginning, and a lot of hubris in his origin.

My point was that even Spider-Man's villains, who are considered to be pretty great, were originally lame-looking guys in rubber suits. It's only been through 50+ years of story development that they've become pinnacles.

For instance, originally Green Goblin was just a mobster in the comics. Only after many fights and many years did Norman Osborn become an interesting antagonist. I don't believe he originally had the Goblin Serum as well.

Rhino is a big dumb guy put into a suit. For years he was just a guy to show up for an issue or two and smash some things and then be taken down unceremoniously. However, there were two issues within the last year written by Joe Kelly that gave some huge development to Aleksei.

As for who I think has the best rogue's gallery, the X-Men's, particularly Magneto, the Sentinels and Mr. Sinister are pretty impressive.

My criteria is mostly based on the motivations. Because of that, I think it's hard to build tough villains early in a hero's origin. The hero needs time to establish himself and allow the villains to develop some personal reason against the hero to become a villain, or have a good cause (Magento) to begin with.

You're welcome, glad you liked it.

He lets a lot of that side of his writing show in his Silver Surfer books, if you were so inclined to pick up a Masterworks or something.

MARVEL FANBOY SAYS!!!!!!!!







Yes, kind of.

I read Amazing Spider-Man, BUT I DON'T RECOMMEND IT. I love the character, so I'm bound to his fortunes.

The X-Men books since Hope Summers showed up have been a lot of fun... But it looks like they're getting away from that with Vampire'ing. X-Factor seems excluded from that, so it will still be fun.

Punisher is Frankencastle. You know what that means.

I enjoyed the Avengers-centric Dark Reign, Siege and the current Age of Heroes. They're definitely Marvel's flagship titles and are being cared for. Thunderbolts is included in this because it's a lot of the same characters involved. So that's Avengers Prime, New Avengers, Avengers, Avengers: Children's Crusade (Young Avengers), Secret Avengers, T-Bolts, Avengers Academy (the spiritual successor to Avengers: The Initiative)

The Ultimate books are entirely skippable.

Deadpool is good for a laugh but is becoming oversaturated. Over the past few months you could have read Deadpool, Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth, Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War, Deadpool Team-Up, or Deadpool Corps. Yes, there is such a thing as too much Deadpool: Five books will do it.

Thor is off-schedule and kind of hard to gauge at the moment.

Wolverine: Weapon X has been really cool, and I'm not a Wolverine fan at all. I think Jason Aaron writes it, and outside of the first arc (which I skipped because it seemed ridiculous) everything since then has been Hardcover-purchase-worthy.

Greg Pak, who I think is back on the Hulk nonsense, is mostly enjoyable with Amadeus Cho's happenings and writing Hercules when he's around.

Matt Fraction's Invincible Iron Man is still enjoyable and the title just won an Eisner.

Bendis' Powers (Marvel's ICON imprint) is great but only bi-monthly. On the same imprint is Bendis and Maleev's current book, Scarlet, which had a promising beginning.

Ed Brubaker's Captain America seems to be floundering, which is definitely uncharacteristic of the Bru-ster. His Steve Rogers: Super Soldier is still too early to tell about.

The Shadowland story coming out of Daredevil is really cool.

As mentioned, the cosmic stories are awesome, but Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy are both on a hiatus while the Thanos Imperative is happening, so there is only one dose of cosmic a month.

All told, if I have to build a solely Marvel pull list right now, these are the only titles that would be on it:

Powers
Scarlet
Amazing Spider-Man
Thunderbolts
Secret Avengers
New Avengers
Avengers Prime
X-Factor
Thanos Imperative (pending Nova/GotG return)
Wolverine: Weapon X (as long as Jason Aaron is still there)