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  1. Re:Venom by BrynM · · Score: 1 · on Spider-Man 3 Villains: Sandman & Venom
    since Venom started out as a spidey alternative
    Didn't Venom start as Spidey's costume he nabbed during the Secret Wars?
  2. Here are some pictures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Tech of Burning Man

    That burning man is quite famous these days

  3. Re:Good Investment by rayde · · Score: 1 · on Marvel Gets Cash to do 10 Films
    and according to this Ant-Man has previously teamed up with Spiderman. Oh I see the crossover possibilities already.

    perhaps all these movies are to serve as introductions, and the real blockbuster will be the huge every-marvel-superhero-we've-ever-mentioned vs. Apocalypse or something movie, which will no doubt come out in 15 years or so.

  4. Realism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen
    • "The Watchmen," created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbon and originally released in 1986 as a 12-issue comic book, is credited with redefining the superhero genre. It tells a crime-conspiracy story that provided the first realistic look at the behind-the-heroics lives of superhero archetypes.

    NTT, but didn't Amazing Fantasy #15 do that over 20 years earlier?

    Oops, I think I just started a DC-Marvel flame war. Better not click Submi...

  5. Re:There must be a major downside... by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 1 · on Mutation Creates SuperKid

    Think of it as being obese, but with muscle instead of fat. Why would that be an advantage?

    You'd be able to crush webheads without having any manipulator arms fused to your spine.

    Now if we could only get Steve Rogers to take the experimental myostatin antibody serum....

  6. The REAL king of Atlantis by Isaac-Lew · · Score: 1 · on On the Trail to Atlantis

    The Sub-Mariner would kick Aquaman's ass :P. (Note: Sub-Mariner is Marvel's oldest continuous character, having appeared in Marvel Comics #1 in 1939).

  7. Re:Spiderman and the Apprentice? by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 1, Informative · on Spiderman 2 Trailer

    Spider-Man actually had those four extra limbs for awhile in the comic book. Although, he grew extra arms, not legs.

  8. No, no, no kids.... by Himring · · Score: 2, Funny · on Forget Mars. Should We Go To The Moon?

    The Moon should be off limits. We all know that The Watcher lives there....

  9. Re:Poor review by Noren · · Score: 1 · on Stan Lee: The Rise and Fall of The American Comic Book
    Marvel Comics was the first of the mainstream comic labels to buck the Comics Code Authority.
    True. They did so in 1971 in Amazing Spider-Man 96-98, to tell a story which depicted drug use (explicitly forbidden by the Code) in order to show very negative consequences to the users. To go on-topic, Stan Lee was approached by the National Department of Health requesting that he write such a story. Everyone sane pretty much agreed that this was reasonable, and the whole thing actually led to revising the code. Amazing Spider-Man returned to being under code after that storyline ended. Shortly before that, DC comics had also done a drug use storyline in Green Lantern 85-86, but that had been edited and narrowly approved by the Code.

    The first mainstream company comic book to abandon the code indefinitely was Saga of the Swamp Thing starting with issue #29 back in 1984.

    I think the Nick Fury bit is a recent publicity stunt by Marvel, if there's an earlier example I'm not aware of let me know.

  10. With great power... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Romancing The Rosetta Stone

    Am I the only one who's glad Doc Och is working in the field of language and not robotics?

  11. Little Help for the Non DC/Marvel crowd by cornjones · · Score: 2, Informative · on Webcomics As Business Model

    For those of you who aren't comic geeks here is a translation of the big time books mentioned above:

    X-Men #94 - Introduction of the new team including Wolverine, Collosus, Storm, NightCrawler, etc...

    Amazing Fantasy #15 - here for more - First appearance of Spider Man.

    Detective Comics #27 - pic First appearance of Batman