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You're not marvel and you don't have "mutants"... idiots

No.

Thor is technically superior on every level.

You are mistaking Good in technical sense and Good in the sense that it is entertaining.

The former often what makes the latter so, but the latter can override the former for people and most people go off their personal likes and dislikes rather than whether something is good or not.

in other words, just because something is good doesn't mean i'm going to like it and just because i like it doesn't mean it's good.

I actually am battling myself on which way is better...

I'd say for marketing purposes put the $300 one on the 1st book, but people might get a bad taste because they see the lower quality on the 2nd one and might not buy it because they don't want to risk you just cashing in on the success of the first

on the other hand if people perceive the front cover as ameteurish which it does to me you might not get the sale on book, but if they see the second book they may see that you're improving and thus give both books a try

You're taking risk with both ways and I don't know how well the art is perceived the art is in general. I think they're close enough that people won't pick up the quality differences of them that easy.

of course there is also what cover fits with either book... is one of the characters more prominently featured in one book or the other? if so you might go that route.

Yes, she arose from the Clone Saga as the only clone to survive as far as known and she was about to have her mind wiped by madam webb, but Carnage/Gwen II escaped which released all the clones... She at the end of the saga decided to live as "Jessica Drew"/Spider-Woman even though she has all the memories and such of being Peter Parker up to the around the Carnage incident. Assumedly the sample comes from before the Carnage incubation and as such comes from sometime between when Conners asks for samples from Peter and when Conners escapes. So everything before issue 62 or 63 she knows, everything after she may know about.

Or Ben Reily...

Dunno where she is at the moment but as of Ultimate Spider-man Requiem she, Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman, was indeed still alive... as is some version of Gwen Stacy... this is as of issue 133. I doubt any of them died in the last 4-6 Death of Spider-Man arc so... I doubt they killed either given that they usually write 4+ arcs before they revisit a character/story arc that isn't Spider-Man and that only 3 arcs in between relaunch and his death...

Ooooh now I remember I was confusing the two. They visit Miranoi in In Space too i believe

After in space they took a major budget hit...
Earlier seasons got martial artists who they had play the roles
Seasons after In Space they move to New Zealand and started hiring unknwown actors without a martial arts background.

You also had it so that the whole cast would get replaced every year so any progress made by the actors was lost.

So yeah, reduced budget + non martial artist actors + Actors being replaced every year + being bought by disney that tried to kill it = worse and worse seasons.

That's what they are and where they originated from. I also said that they can be used in other ways due to their origins but haven't been

i explained this...

GL was bland and boring. It didn't make mistakes because it didn't try to do anything great. It played it safe and as such came out being average and dull.

Based on straight technicals it was a 5/10
But because movies that do play it safe are so bland and dull they are uninteresting and tie that with the disappointment factor and the score gets lower.

Where as a movie like Transformers 2 which a lot of people feels is one of the worst, if not the worst big budget movies ever gets a higher rating... not cuz its better in terms of technical craft but because the wreck is interesting as are almost all wrecks

What?

All notions of good and bad are relative. The only way you can give something a fair criticism is by comparing it. We have standards. Those standards are set in place by the average quality or by the level of quality something should meet if one studied it. And further, standards are always going up due to technology and people competing with each other... or at least they should be.

The ones you have to be worried about is when someone says that you shouldn't compare. If something is good or right it should be able to stand up to scrutiny of any sort.

you mean Power Rangers in Space

And it's actually not the point

The problem comes from the fight before that

Hammond at Cadmus.. he's sedated
cut to Hal who is staring off into the sky
cut to Hammond going berserk and Hal coming in out of nowhere

Now first off, you could say that that little brightning at the end of that cut scene was the ring, but it's not shown as such, there is no sound, and when it happens later the body language and such is that of Hal seeing it for the first time.

Secondly, even if you accept that it was he ring in that scene Hal doesn't know where Cadmus is and the movie makes no mention nor does it illustrate that the ring can tell the GL where the danger is or in what direction or anything of that nature, just that there is danger around.

You have a 2 fold problem

And even if you figure out a solution to those 2 problems you are still left with the fact that Hal had still not decided to actually be a hero at this point saying that the ring made a mistake.

So now you have a 3 fold problem

Yes and he ignored it to fight Hammond. Hammond isn't a threat by any definition.

I would think that the
6 minute intro full of backstory that is messed around with and wrong according to actual DC canon
10 minutes talking about the Sabers that don't matter
33 minutes dealing with a badly done characters that isn't the focus of the movie
15 minutes of "romance" that didn't need to be there
11 minutes of Sinestro acting not in accordance with DC canon nor like the character should

8 minutes of what everyone want to the damn movie to see

and 20-40 minutes of a less than adequate to spot on performance of Hal Jordan by Ryan Reynolds... most of it being the less than adequate side. And this is because there is a comedy routine that takes 2-3 times as long as the part where he nails it right before or right after which really makes the bad stand out.

Every time you laughed while watching the movie you should mentally note that as NOT being Green Lantern. I'm not saying that there can't be any comedy in it, but rather that GL's comedy must come from a different place than stupid little comedy skits.



oh also... you guys said that the ring "warned" Hal about danger at Cadmus. It didn't. The ring blinking is used in 2 places, at the beginning to warn Abin of Parallax and on Hal's return home to warn him of Parallax...which he more or less ignored...and that happened AFTER the Cadmus fight.

The problem with Superman and Wonder Woman is they aren't relevant... or at least they aren't perceived to be because they aren't talking about any issues that are relevant to the real world...

Superman is a power fantasy
Wonder Woman is a Women's Lib/Sexual Lib movement character

In a world where everything is a grey there is nothing you can just say go beat up that guy and things will be solved for Superman to be involved in.

In a world where Women's Lib and Sexual liberation are perceived to as done and over with there isn't much room for Wonder Woman.


We also have uncreative writers that are apparently to chicken to take on the issues of the day. Superman is technically is a result of gene therapy and cloning that possess powers that can be mistaken for a god while Wonder Woman is from a world that is all about Women's rights and is the daughter of a "god" and in some rights a "god" herself.

We could deal with theism/atheism, prochoice/prolife, gene-therapy, stem cell research and a number of other issues but they aren't doing that...


I think that if that is how they are going to use them...or not use them as it were, they should not be considered "the trinity" and you want a "trinity" I'd propose that Batman, Oracle, and Green Lantern are far more suited to that role.

Actually no it's not, it's the opposite.

Sinestro as presented in the movie has no reason to take on the Yellow Ring

He knows the yellow energy can corrupt you
He knows the yellow energy is weaker than the green
He is not only faithful to the GLC he believes what they stand for
Oh and not to mention in the movie Sinestro doesn't question the Guardians' decisions at all and when he argues his point he gets his way

So in effect he took on a weaker power that is likely to corrupt him for no apparent reason, at all.

The budget "cuts" isn't the problem. It the administration that take too large a chunk of the budget that it

Yes if that were the case...

Year 1 he didn't have the batmobile
End of Year 3 he did, but didn't always use it
Between year 3 and 13 he set up at least 1 "extra" bat-cave now known as the bat-bunker
As of at least 94ish which is around year 13 he had the bat train thingy
After year 16(NML) he set up multiple bat caves, fully decked out

So we can assume that that pre-Year 16 the journalist didn't take it seriously enough to find it or report it (with the cover it's just the police trying to scare crooks) and after that point it would have been too hard to find it.

and then there are people like me who actually read everything and we essentially get shafted...

but then im far from normal and i would say that what i did/still doing is pointless as there are only a few really good books/stories over the course of years that are worthwhile and a lot of the rest is just fluff that can be read or not.

like if you took batman and read it all from the beginning with a mind to read only important events... you could cut out about half the reading or more before or after the mid 90s because after/before that point all the major events take place over a month or two, and you just need to buy several titles...

id recommend only reading a select few concentrated arcs and forgetting the rest as it is just too time consuming and not worth it for the overall addition to the mythos... once you read those arcs you pretty much have a good idea of the era and can decide to read from there or not.


but then again Batman is a far more daunting task than just about any other character just because to figure out his universe or rather the gotham universe you have to read several titles that range from crime drama, to charlies angels, to action adventure, to comedy, to mystery... its not a bad thing that it's like that... its a bad thing that they aren't kept relevant or have too much history to jump into without research...

I understand the need for a relaunch but i think it'd be better if they created a line of books that gave a compressed history lesson for each character that a reader could go pick up. That could get a person caught up and use it as a guide to direct new people as to what they should be reading... as well as you could retell stories in a way that compresses and explains them so you get the full story in a more easily understood way... like NML or the Knightfall Saga or The Reign of the Supermen... those are all pretty confusing if you don't read everything and even if you do you can still get lost...

it would also allow for DCU to put out a more or less official canon with corrections and explanations so that things like Tim Drake's origin makes sense and Barbara's story of why she stopped being batgirl is clarified... or clarify PowertGirl...