drqshadow

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  1. 1986 + Miller + Batman = :wub:

    2006 + Miller + Batman = :fight:

    Exactly.

    This sounds like pure shit. I'll give it a chance, because Miller's produced some gems in the past, but on the surface it sounds really cheeseball and stupid.

  2. Late reply. :)

    I voted him a seven. He pretty much personified the line-heavy muscleman style of the mid 90s, but I'm starting to see some of the flaws in his work lately. He seems to not have the ability to draw a woman who isn't straight-up stacked, and his crazy detail-centric style can distract from the action going on in the foreground from time to time.

    He's still a superstar artist, and his partnership with Scott Williams is probably one of the best historical penciler / inker collaborations in the modern era, but I'm slowly losing my love for him as I'm becoming more critical of what I read. In the 90s, when he was on X-Men and later WildCATs, and I was a bit younger, I'd have ranked him a nine.

  3. Personally, I'd rate him a six. However, because he penned so many classic tales, created so many memorable characters and wrote X-Men #1 (the top-selling comic book of all-time), I'll gladly bump him up a notch.

    That sums it up for me, as well. He actually wasn't as wordy with his writing in the 80s, which was his prime, and seemed to try to make up for his fading abilities and ideas as a writer by filling the page with paragraph upon paragraph of wordsmithing. His work with John Byrne on the X-Men of the mid 80s is legendary freaking stuff and still a great read today, but he was definitely losing steam before he left Marvel in the 90s. Read X-Men #1, which he wrote with Jim Lee, for an example of some of the most needlessly lengthy dialogue ever. Ever.

  4. SPOILER!

    Anyone else find it odd that Jennifer asked Wolverine about his joints, and then he was torn apart?

    I think it was just a way of explaining the dismemberment, I don't think it'll come out that she was setting him up or anything.

    Even though I saw the first couple of pages earlier in the thread, I didn't feel like all that much had been spoiled. I really liked how they followed up the "he threw my legs four miles" with "he threw my legs four miles up." Awesome.

  5. Red / Blue Supermen. I actually enjoyed Knightfall and Death of Superman because they injected life and fresh storytelling into characters that had been dead in the water for years. Spider-Clone I think got a bad rap because Wizard had such a huge, huge hate hard-on for it. Emerald Twilight was fairly well-explained (Hal's hometown was wiped out and he just lost it because he couldn't stop it). The red / blue Supermen was just a blatant publicity ploy, and a dumb one at that.

  6. I've actually played ET through the use of an emulator. Autumn actually remembers playing it on her 2600, but I was not fortunate enough to have one when I was young. It's hilariously bad. I don't remember ET being able to levitate by straightening out his neck in the film version.

  7. ----THAR BE SPOILERS-----

    I'm thinking it's the Black Widow. Just a hunch.

    I'm not usually one to say I told you so, but... yeah. Four months ahead of time and I had this ish solved. I'm better than Batman.

  8. Ah! I always assumed everyone knew the image was the link. But I see what you mean.

    And it's actually "> 100 Words" (as in "less than"). That's not an html error.

    Yeah, it's fairly evident after you've been around the site for a couple of visits, but when it comes to usability you want to shoot for the lowest common denominator. :)

    Wouldn't "< 100 Words" be "less than 100 words"?