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    What's Worse: A Superhero Gone Bad, Or A Killer Robot Who Won't Kill?

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    Image of Zyg Zyg
    08/04/09

    In reply to What's Worse: A Superhero Gone Bad, Or A Killer Robot Who Won't Kill?
    I have to be honest. I think the superhero gone bad bit is past its prime. Too bad because I'm a Waid fan.
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    Image of PVIII PVIII
    08/05/09

    @Zyg: I would agree, but then I read the last issue, which was awesome beyond words.
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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    08/04/09

    In reply to What's Worse: A Superhero Gone Bad, Or A Killer Robot Who Won't Kill?
    Secret Six, can't wait! Just such a fun series to read.
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    Image of DocSeuss DocSeuss
    08/04/09

    In reply to What's Worse: A Superhero Gone Bad, Or A Killer Robot Who Won't Kill?
    Revelations was one of the worst of the Final Crisis tie-ins there was, though.
    Actually, the only good one I can think of is the one with the Flash rogues gallery.
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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    08/04/09

    @DocSeuss: I thought it was probably the best tie-in. Revelations, Rogues, and Last Will and Testament were must reads for me....more so than the actual crisis, really.
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    Image of PVIII PVIII
    08/04/09

    In reply to What's Worse: A Superhero Gone Bad, Or A Killer Robot Who Won't Kill?
    Oh, and I saw a poster at Midtown Comics promoting the final issue of Planetary due in October. All I can say is - THANK. YOU. LITTLE. BABY. JESUS.
    I've been waiting for that sucker for what feels like years (and what actually might be years...).
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    Image of SenorDoucheoisie SenorDoucheoisie
    08/04/09

    In reply to What's Worse: A Superhero Gone Bad, Or A Killer Robot Who Won't Kill?
    Absolutely no comic book fan should pass up on Doom Patrol. Giffen and DeMatteis + a bunch of loser heroes = epic win
    And no mention for Chew #3? It's a pretty fantastic series so far.
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    08/04/09

    @SenorDoucheoisie: Big fan of Chew so far. Funny, and loving the art.
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    Image of silentstriderm silentstriderm
    08/04/09

    In reply to What's Worse: A Superhero Gone Bad, Or A Killer Robot Who Won't Kill?
    Wait, so is this new Armor Wars a retelling of the original? Or is it a spin off of Fraction's awesome Invincble Iron Man?
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    08/04/09

    In reply to What's Worse: A Superhero Gone Bad, Or A Killer Robot Who Won't Kill?
    It's good to see Irredeemable get its just due here. Between this and Incognito, it's been a good year for stories about super-villainy.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    08/04/09

    In reply to What's Worse: A Superhero Gone Bad, Or A Killer Robot Who Won't Kill?
    It's a sad day for robotkind when a robot won't do what it's supposed to do!
    "Kill ALL HUMANS, baby!"
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    Image of Dead Air ummm Dead Air Dead Air ummm Dead Air
    08/04/09

    @ManchuCandidate: But if Asimov's laws dictate that robots can't harm humans, but are programmed to harm, but can't defy their programing, but can't break laws aws aws aws
    /robot brain 'splodes
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    08/04/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Did someone trip his preset kill limit?
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    08/04/09

    @Robotic Bilbo Bagins has no use for fleshy ones: The Killbots? A trifle! It was simply a matter of outsmarting them.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    08/04/09

    @ManchuCandidate: HK-47 approves of this, meatbag.
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    06/15/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    Not sure I'd want to see any of thexe folks on the big screen.


    Now Jamie Madrox, that's a character I'd like to see done right on film.

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    Image of thewriteguy thewriteguy
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    I would like to see Power Pack and Clock & Dagger.
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    06/14/09

    @thewriteguy:


    Cloak, not Clock, argh, typo.

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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    06/15/09

    @thewriteguy:


    Typo aside, Power Pack is a great idea for a summer blockbuster. Kids would love seeing someone like themselves with superpowers.


    Cloak and Dagger, though...it's a little too dark. And it feels dated to me.

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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    No X-Statix? Are you kidding me?
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    Image of kelz kelz
    06/14/09

    @DennyCrane: If we were still in the 90's, maybe.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    06/14/09

    @kelz: It can absolutely still work as a concept in 2009.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    Where is the Galactus rom/com?
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    Image of DoktorH DoktorH
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    what, no love for Nextwave? that has action-comedy written all over it. semi-dysfunctional superheroes-with-issues rebel against the Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort that employs them and actually start saving people and stuff! it has Machine Man for the trippy scifi bits, getting drunk. It has The Captain for the Captain Marvel style action bits, Elsa Bloodstone for the fantasy, Forbush Man for the comedy, and the secret agenda of H.A.T.E for the thriller elements (with MODOK!)
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    Image of WizarDru WizarDru
    06/15/09

    @DoktorH: NextWave is comedy for comic-book fans. If you're NOT a comic-book fan, it's really too self-referential and in-jokey to be amusing.


    Seriously, stuff like Irving Forbush or a bunch of two-page splash panels (with no story) are only funny to comics fans (and wouldn't translate at all to the movies). Likewise, half the characters would need explanation; a movie audience isn't going to know who Bloodstone is (hell, most comic readers didn't know) and isn't going to be happy with finding out one of the members is his daughter...and won't be happy with the two lines of exposition about it in the comic that passes for her back-story.


    Nextwave would make a TERRIBLE movie.

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    06/15/09

    @WizarDru: False. The elements that you describe are no different than those in Mystery Men--inside jokes for comic book fans, characters with obscure origins--and that was a great movie.


    It just couldn't rely on those elements.

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    Image of mikuras mikuras
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    No female superheroes except teenybopper Hellcat (gag) and minor roles in a few teams? She-Hulk, Spiderwoman, Ms. Marvel, Black Widow? Um... Dazzler?
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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    06/14/09

    @mikuras:


    Alas, after ELEKTRA, Marvel might think twice about going that route . . .

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    Image of Cicada Cicada
    06/14/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: I don't think the problem with Elektra was that the lead was female.
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    Also in the trippy sci-fi/fantasy mode, howzabout Shade, the Changing Man (the Milligan era)?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/14/09

    @Starwatcher: That was a DC title, right?
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