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Catching up on my Ultimate Comics comics. Caught up to the beginning of Cataclysm in X-Men and Ultimates. X-men was pretty good but not revealing who fake Psylocke was kinda bugged me. Revealing it was her mind control that made half the initial group in Utopia side with a 14 year old girl as leader of all mutants over Kitty, who had stepped up and liberated mutants from the Nimrods and secured a sovereign homeland for them was nice though. Ultimates was a big bag of terrible. We can toss Joshua Hale Fialkov on the pile of crappy writers with Loeb and Slott. I mean seriously, the last time we see Ben Grimm its revealed his rock form was a cocoon. His new form he emits purple energy and is able to turn on and off similar to Johnny, Reed, and Sue, and has a few extra powers, such as being immune to Sue's force fields. Now Fialkov takes over and for some reason he is stuck in purple energy mode, but can switch between it and rock mode at will. WTF? Oh, and his rock form is easily dispatched by Quicksilver. Dan Ketch spits fire, Hercules speaks olde english, Hulk has the infinity guantlet, and Tony's brain tumor was an infinity gem. My god it was a train wreck.

It does look absolutely enthralling, I just wish it was mandatory for everyone to read the books. Then they would understand true entertainment But if everyone read the books they would know why Tyrion is in chains and we couldn't be all waiting for them to find out all excitedly.

He doesn't keep it. They just did it for people like me who were like "ITS WRONG! WATSON NEEDS A MOUSTACHE!" Speaking of which... ending of ep 3 equals thumbs up from me.

I just found out Marvel owns the TV rights to all their characters. So technically theycould have Spider-man and the X-Men on Agenta of SHIELD.

Well, I look forward to reading it eventually. Lots to read before that happens and I'm not particularly speedy

The first was like that too though. Started on my Complete Sherlock Holmes. I think I'm almost done a Study in Scarlet. Not bad so far. Have an urge to quit and read the next Barsoom book though

I think that's more trademark than copyright, which is a whole other monstrosity.

You really think we'd be better off with 99 crappy versions of Darth Vader being released? It would just become white noise eventually, I doubt we'd even notice if a good version came out. Isn't it better that people have to create their own content? If you are creative, why do you need to use Darth Vader to distinguish yourself? And if you do manage to create a popular character, do you really want every Tom, ****, and Harry swooping in to use that character in their projects? Well the way I see it if I create a popular character, I don't give a rats ass what people do with it after I'm dead. I don't see any reason copyright should remain after everyone the author knew is dead. If the author has 3 or 4 decades to reap the rewards of his creation, I don't see why some college kid shouldn't be able to try to publish something in that world without getting his ass sued. Lucas actually isn't really a great example here though, what with the Expanded Universe and not going out and trying to shut down fan-films and such, except now that Disney owns the rights, everything I've heard is they are quashing the whole EU and only properly licensed movie tie-ins are going to be allowed.

The idea that we would be better off with hundreds of Darth Vader spin offs by people that did not come up with the character is ridiculous. That whole video is like a protest against originality. Its not like the guy who came up with the character did such an awesome job with his Vader spinoff. If just one of those hundred was bonkers good, then yeah, we'd be better off.

doesn't his character die in pretty much every movie?

That was it. I enjoyed it quite a bit as a child. Too bad they removed it from Netflix. Its still on Canadian netflix if you have a way to access it

Was watching Ben 10 Ultimate Alien this morning. First 3 series of that (Ben 10, Ben10: Alien Force, and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien) were fantastic. Something about thenew one (Ben 10: Omniverse) keeps me feom enjoying it. @Nonek, I believe Netflix has the complete series of Silver Surfer, along with the 90s X-Men and Spider-Man...and Iron Man, but we best not mention that one.

What the hell is that? Its like Hellboy dressed as Spider-Man

It isn't as good as the Mini, but it is much better than everything else DC has done post JLU, and Frank Quitely is a fantastic artist. Better than Batman: Under the Red Hood, Dark Knight Returns, Wonder Woman, Crisis on Two Earths, JL: Doom, Superman vs the Elite, GL: TAS, GL: First Flight, GL, Emerald Knights, or Young Justice? Agree to disagree I suppose. And ok, I judge FQ too harshly, its just that whenever I think of his art, I think of this: *shudders* @Ganrich: Transformers: Animated was also pretty dang good, don't remember if that one died due to toy sales or ratings. I know they didn't release season 2 on DVD which made me angry. Thundercats I think died due to toy sales, which is a shame because the toys were good, unlike the Young Justice ones. Avengers Assemble and Ultimate Spider-Man sadly just aren't even close to as good as Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes or Spectacular Spider-Man, and I can't look passed how two of the best Marvel series ever got canned for stupid reasons. (Spectacular SM due to rights issues, Avengers: EMH due to Jeph Loeb being an idiot in all things and thinking EMH was too complicated)

Are you talking about the 90's cartoon show?I have fond memories of watching that as a kid. Had a Jack Kirby vibe that meshes really well with cosmic stories. If you have Netflix, I suggest trying All-Star Superman. Really? All-Star Superman? That was the worst DC animated movie yet. Story was ass, combined with them trying to reproduce Frank Quitely's terrible art. It was just a big ball of terrible.

My kids tend to watch Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Doc McStuffins, Sophia the First, basically a bunch of stuff that doesn't even hold a candle to Ducktales, Tale Spin, Rescue Rangers, and the other disney stuff of the 80s and 90s. Uncle Grandpa is awful. I'm just happy DVD allows me to expose my kids to the stuff from my childhood. They love the aforementioned 90s disney stuff, GI Joe, Muppet Show, Teddy Ruxpin,etc.

I think onw thing that bugs me nowadays is a lot of animated series now are appealing to older fans, so they get good ratings, but don't translate to toy sales so they get cancelled. This happened with Young Justice, Green Lantern, Sym-Bionic Titan, the 2003 He-Man, etc. Young Justice was getting similar ratings to Adventure Time, But no one was buying the toys, so cancelled. This sucks because the generation raised in the 80s tends to be fans of animation, but there is very little that's either inclusive of an older audience, or flat out geared towards us. I wish GI Joe Renegades had gone another season. The first was so damned good.

I'm just wondering if Dwayne Johnson's charisma can overcome Brett Ratner's mediocrity. Bah, who am I kidding, if a Samoan guy can be believable as a Greek hero, he can do anything.

So WWE announced the WWE network starting up in February. 10 bucks a month gets you every pay-per-view (6 month commitment), which considering its around 50-60 bucks per PPV is a damned good deal, but it also gets you new original programming, as well as every past PPV from WWE, WCW, and ECW and old episodes of RAW and Smackdown. Essentially its WWE netflix. I don't know how many WWE fans are on here, but if I didn't have trouble finishing one 3 hour episode of RAW every week, I would be all over this.

Star Trek has had some good games, ST: Bridge Commander being the best, I really enjoyed the Elite Force games, the Armada games, 25th anniversary and Birth of the federation too. Hell I even gone enjoyment out of ST:Legacy. But then I'm a Trekker. I was a big fan of Final Unity. A p&c adventure/action hybrid fits the trek universe well.

Topic reminded me of this

To be fair, the 2nd episode is more a mishmash of "small cases", some of which are connected. It's a time jumpey one with lots of flashback sequences. I liked it, wife's response was essentially "if the season only has 3 episodes, why would they throw one away with a filler episode?"

At least Skye was useful in this one.

I was a really big fan of the mickey mouse short in front of frozen, as well as the new mickey shorts that I believe are shown on disney xd (saw them at the disney store) . I like that they have more of an updated version of classic mickey

I got into Avatar late and just haven't found the time to watch it. I'm only about halfway through season 1 but really enjoy it.