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To make things more amusing, Alec Holland is the ultimate savior, while the Dark Avatar is a corrupted Swamp Thing (infected by the Black Lantern and not having Holland's memories and consciousness driving it). It's taken awhile, but im really intrigued to see where this is going.

Now THAT is the Green Lantern movie i want to see! They frak this up, im gettin' me a lynch mob.

The bright side is that given the folks in charge of the reboot, they could cast almost anyone and id be interested in seeing it. So Adams could work out, but ill reserve judgement until i see some trailers and hope they arent influenced at all by Millar's movie concept.

Im interested. Marvel's been slacking lately with their animated movies.

20... years? No... it hasn't been... i mean.

*hides in the corner and pulls the blanket over my head, leaves Voltron to guard the entrance*

we can still use adamantium bullets and deadpool right? cause the kids love deadpool.

When i heard that Marvel was going to be doing relaunches of at least some of the CrossGen titles, i was both psyked and incredibly wary. Marvel does not have a great track record when it comes to taking someone else's ball and running with it, especially if they pretty much intend to bury it just out of spite. *cough* Ultraverse *cough*

That having been said, im still looking forward to both of these miniseries and hope it opens the door for future CrossGen come backs. The only big gripe i have thus far is that both of the books are taking place (at least as far as i can tell) on Earth and i think it loses a little bit of the flavor the original various series had because of it, but i can get by it if the reboots are interesting enough. In both cases im eyeing the two series pretty critically since both titles (Sigil & Ruse) were among my favorite of the old line.

so of course, ive picked them up.

Sigil #1; Haz already covered the basics, so i dont feel much need to retread old ground here. So ill just jump in and say it's nice to see some callbacks to the old series. For those folks who were familiar with CrossGen works, while the title said Sigil, i actually got more of a Meridian vibe from this comic. i hope they drop most of the school stuff quickly, since it's seems to be little more than filler to show the audience "oh look, the girl is strange! but she's got problems just like you!" Overall a pretty decent first issue though, set up the basic premise easily enough, gets you into the action, and i dont have any overwhelming desire to strangle the main character when she talks. good signs generally that this could be worth following around for another couple months. the story is okay, but to be honest im looking to see what else from the past stories get involved here, since it seems Sigil is going to be the title that reboots as much of the CrossGen universe as Marvel will be comfortable with.

Ruse #1, right. This was probably my favorite series aside from Negation. Holmes style detective on a world permanently settled into the Victorian era and riddled with steampunk, magic, and etc. with only a brief connection to the rest of the sigil bearers in 'emma'. This time around, we're on earth, and while there does seem to be some of the steam punk type gadgets around, this seems to be a more straight up Holmes' homage than the original. With Ruse coming across even more acerbic than the first time through. Though, it does set up the series nicely, intros the characters well and is familiar enough for an old fan to dig it and wonder where they're going, and for new folks to jump on without having ever picked it up before. The art is a little... off. i dont know what it is, but something about just doesnt look right. Like an expression will be drawn oddly or there's an angle choice im not happy with. little nitpicks that i can get over with because the story is alright, and it has been (ugh) almost ten years since Waid last wrote for the character.

Overall a good attempt from both titles, and i hope they do well enough to see more CrossGen titles get released from Marvel.

Im digging seeing another Daaredevil movie, but the first one was a pretty decent movie. the theatrical was alright, certainly not a great movie, and nowhere near as popular as the other comic films out at the time, but still a fun movie. the director's cut was far better though. when i hear people kvetch about the movie, the main reason is usually Ben Affleck. but i think he did alright. he worked in it about as well as Tobey did in spider-man.

If i had any confidence in hollywood to do it right, i would prefer to see a reboot of the series. One where there actually is a tangible benefit to the quickening. Not to mention something that erases the stain of the more horrible parts of the franchise. Now i dug the TV show, and was fond of the 1st movie, but looking back, the 1st movie wasn't even all that great. The story was alright and you cant beat the soundtrack (which of course, you NEED for a reboot ), but the parts of the story taking place in 'present day' was more crap than not. And Lambert was damn near blind back then, it'd be nice to get someone who could go through a nice swordfight and not make it look like the other guy was purposefully holding back because he knew his opponent couldnt see him.

Would also be nice to see stuff like the Watchers incorporated from the get go. But that's me.

JSA --- live action or a series of animated movies. superheroes stomping Nazis! how could this be anything but awesome?

Seconding a new Flash TV series. This one id like to see have all 4 generations of Flash. Jay, Barry, Wally, and Bart.

Magnus, Robot Fighter just... because.

frak, there are way too many great choices there for me to just go with one. wish theyd allow us to pick five. or in some cases list issue #s, because i recall a good number of those, but not all. and i wasnt paying attention to writer/artist teams until the '90s.

i liked Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and Untouchables.