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partially, it also depends on how the character is written. a different person in the role doesn't radically change who the character is, just how the character is interpreted. it's no different than when another actor takes over one role from another actor. sure, Keaton, Bale and Conroy all played him differently, but he was still Batman. Also there weren't that many jarring changes of the voice cast from the movie back to the cartoon series.

wasn't there an article that came out a couple months ago claiming that by now, Bendis had written more Avengers comics than anyone else in the business. well i guess that makes him the definitive Avengers authority now.

*twitch*

wow... i think im starting to hate comics now.

did a double check using the wiki article, and it pointed me at the DC wiki, which confirmed some of these bits. seems Krypton was in the Milky Way Galaxy, only 50 light years from earth. It moved temporarily to the Andromeda Galaxy during Birthright (and i guess it was in another galaxy during the Silver Age, so for the movies it mightve been in another galaxy as well) and has since been put back in place, and is actually in space sector 2813 (the one right next to the sector including earth).

as for how advanced Kryptonian culture was, they were up there, but i dont think they were ever really considered among the most advanced. they were just among the most vicious since they learned early on that exposure to different suns had varying effects on their physiology.

well the movie was full of things that made folks go BWUH?, the poorly explained trip to what was Krypton was the OP's.

im a big fan of M&M. it's just that the generic-ness (frak it, im running with the term!) inherent to the system was one of my biggest gripes with it. the DM and players had to do just a bit too much work in order to make the characters with different powers actually feel any different from one another. i knew about DCAdventures, but i think the game designer logs mentioned there was going to be some other changes when M&M3rd hits, because some mechanics were kinda being field tested for the DCAdventures book.

Anywho, looking forward to laying hands on that when it comes out, and when ive got the cash for it.

As for Gamma World. Ill wait for my friends to pick it up and thumb through it. Ive no real interest in dumping anymore cash into 4E than what i absolutely need to play the game.

it's been a while since ive seen the movies. but do they actually say Krypton isn't in the Milk Way Galaxy? also, i'd always assumed some sort of warp travel was involved anyway. if you can accept being under a yellow sun gives a guy super powers, assuming the folks that sent him here had FTL tech isn't exactly a big leap.

yeah, not like he had a readily available database of the entirety of Kryptonian knowledge available to him to be able to make whatever changes were necessary so he could make the trek back to the ruins of his homeworld or anything.

this is New York, even now, how many folks actually look up? so yeah, you could be on fire and most of those folks aren't really gonna care. also in swings spider-man and out walks... some dude, in NYC. if it were somewhere else i might buy that somebody would pay attention, maybe.

but then again, i liked it when Parker revealed his identity to the world at large.



the only reason they don't work is because you don't want to accept the dozens of reasons writers have already given and used for why they work in a world of superbeings. do agree it's jarring when the street leveled monkeys are playing in the god end of the pool, but that doesnt mean they don't fit in with some of the other supers.

also, im not quite tracking how it would be easier to figure out who Bats is just because he doesn't kill anyone. not looking to sidetrack the thread, so shoot me a pm so we can properly gnash our teeth at one another.

as for the FrankenCastle thing, i havent read any of it because im not a big fan of Frank's. But the concept behind it is kinda amusing. It's not like he was going to stay dead anyway. They already tried that once and it didn't stick, so i don't see it sticking now. (oh look, it didn't!) To me it isn't whether or not they kill a character that would torque me off, because if a character dies, then at least someone cant screw them up. (generally)

same here, and then my head exploded at both how awesome and how totally wrong that would be.

i dig M&M, but the only problem is that i think the system tends towards being a bit TOO generic. once you figure out attack/defense bonuses, it's pretty much all just flavor from there. at least in 2nd edition, there is a 3rd coming out in a month or so.

WRONG!... THIS is the one, true Flash!



AH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! He's gonna save everyone one of us!

remember the days when it wasnt whether or not folks recognized a property to begin with that got them into the theater to see a movie, but whether or not the movie was interesting enough to go see it? pity.


...and there are those of us who consider them all to be the Flash. Doesnt mean a few of us don't want to see our favorite GL(Kyle or Alan for me!) on screen one day. but hoping for that is like hoping for Tim Drake to get some love in a Batman property. *sigh*

you know, i can grok that you didnt like the '86 film. but really, we're going to pick on the fact they actually had known actors doing the voices and DIDNT use them for the cartoon series afterwards? at the time, there was no way the series would have had the budget to keep those folks on payroll.

also lets be honest, the series was ALWAYS about giant robots fighting it out. that they 'transformed' wasn't so much an integral story point as it was the selling point for the toys they were pushing.

shocked. i say, shocked!

IIRC isn't First Class supposed to be a prequel to the franchise and take place during the 60's or 70's? might explain the outfit. the bright side is that it's a 50/50 shot at being either pretty good (like the first 2 Xmen movies) and piles of crap (like the other 2 x-movies). doesn't mean i want to shell out money to go see it, but hey, slap enough explosions and big effects on screen and most folks will line right up to see it.

creepy cool munchie thing?

mmm, Nightbane. wouldn't use that one though, definitely After the Bomb, but i think i'd also toss in Heroes Unlimited for the rest of the insanity.

i could debate you, point out where exactly you're wrong. but..

So's your face.