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No Man's Land It was the heart of the saga of the destruction of Gotham City and it chronicled a little over a year of their time. First was the Contagion that weakened Gotham, then was the Cataclysm that destroyed Gotham and then came the worst of the worst--No Man's Land. Gotham is cut off from the outside world. Food and resources are scarce at best. Villains run amok and take advantage of anyone they can so they can manipulate them into mere tools to keep themselves alive longer. This long saga also sees the death of Sarah Gordon and the rise of the new badass Batgirl. Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne begin their feud here, too. If you never read any Batman story again, read NML. It's a LONG series, but it's well, well worth it.

Battle of the Flaming Skulls!!! Who would win--Ghost Rider or Scorpion from Mortal Kombat? Place: Fiery pit in Hell Conditions: No other beings in the dark pit can interfere. Other than that, no holds barred. (Come on, they're in Hell for chrissakes.) Ghost Rider has his motorcycle and his chains and Scorpion has his swords and his spear.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein--I was in a clan. They've probably booted me out for not contacting them for months. But I love the game. Can't explain why I like it more than others, but I just do. Unreal Tournament--I've played this game for countless hours online at like 3:00am blowing people up with nuclear weapons.

Title: Batman: The Long Halloween graphic novel Cover Dates: 1996-1997 (graphic novel, 1998) Issues: Batman: The Long Halloween 1-13 Publisher: DC Comics Writers: Jeph Loeb Artist: Tim Sale Price: $19.95 After reading this 380-page mammoth of a book in one day, I knew I had spent that 20 dollars well. Batman: The Long Halloween chronicles every single event leading up to the infamous trial where Harvey Dent was scarred by acid thrown on his face, which of course was the direct cause of him becoming Two-Face. It begins with Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent having a drink in a dark office. They are good friends with each other and with Jim Gordon. Dent is still a normal man, and is a strict believer in the law. The underlying story in all of this is the "Holiday Killer" who murders someone on every major holiday of each month. Starting with Halloween and going through the calendar year. Every issue (13 total) chronicles one month in the story. All the usual suspects make appearances--Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, Scarecrow, Riddler, Poison Ivy, Mad Hatter. But the Holiday Killer seems to be focusing on killing members of the two major crime families in Gotham--the Romans and the Falcones. So, you have all of the rogues gallery, the crime families, and Harvey Dent, Commissioner Gordon and Batman in the middle of it all trying to find out who is murdering mob members every month. Anyone who is a fan of Batman NEEDS to read this. Two-Face's story was always mysterious because the DC writers never really delved deeply into the story until they wrote this. You get all the answers you ever wanted to know about Harvey Dent and then some. It's violent, dark, tragic and mystifiying--all the things that make Batman great. BUY THIS BOOK. Grade: 92/100

Fair enough, but every major US city has its own branch of the FBI who would be at Luthor's disposal. Exactly. He can take as many as he wants as long as they are already in the local branch.

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"Bury My Shell at Wounded Knee"

I'm not voting yet. I think it could go either way, personally. Plus, Yoda, you must remember, he can only summon those CIA and FBI agents already in whatever city he's in. It's like there's a giant force field around the city and no one can get in or out...it's...No Man's Land II. Also, Kingpin has his fair share of villains who will protect him, you know.

Battle of the Bald!!! Place: A randomly chosen large metropolitan area other than Metropolis and New York. (Possibly Los Angeles or Chicago.) Conditions: --Either man may use as many goons and ANY other resources as he can contact/summon within the city. (This means if, for example, Fisk for some reason has Spider Slayer robots stationed in the city in which their syndicates are fighting, he can contact someone to send them out to annihilate Luthor's thugs.) --To contact henchmen and obtain armaments, they each have at their disposal ONE CELLULAR PHONE (same make/model) with a single fully charged battery that CANNOT be recharged once used up. This way, they must conserve their only means of communication wisely. --They can only obtain resources from the city in which they are battling--nowhere else. (You can't tell me these guy's syndicates are only limited to their respective mother cities.) --They are allowed to do anything they want (keeping within the aforementioned restrictions) to win this battle. They can blow up buildings, rip apart streets, you name it. There are no time restrictions. It's basically whoever's resources outlast the others or whoever forces the other to surrender due to a massive beatdown. Whose resources (and cunning use of said resources) outlast the other's?

Super f'n Smash Brothers Melee and it isn't even close for me.

I could never get past anywhere with tha Turtle van on TMNT 1, so Manhattan Project it is. My brother and I would scream our lungs out at that game when the Foot Soldiers gangbanged our turtles all over the place.

Silver Surfer would own Batman...much as it pains me to admit that.

I liked the LXG movie... Seriously though, the graphic novels are brilliant.

Batman He is the peak of human conditioning with no powers. He is the world's greatest fighter (save maybe Lady Shiva), he is the world's greatest detective and he has an arsenal of the most advanced weapons around. Cappy has a shield that's unbreakable. Fine, but Bats has a helluva lot more stuff than that.

Anyone who has ever played Final Fantasy or any D&D-type RPGs MUST read this comic strip series. Home of 8-Bit Theatre I'll post a couple of them as soon as I can switch their file types.

Wait, this is only Marvel Comics trivia?

Normal Superman by the largest margin imaginable.

Definitely Spiderman 2. I will definitely see Punisher, but I'm not exactly expecting it to be great or anything...

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We had this duel in Marvel VS. DC, but it never showed who won because I don't think there was a clear cut winner. Both are incredibly strong, have numerous powers at their disposal and want nothing but death. Conditions: --Thanos does NOT have the Infinity Gauntlet (because that would be stupidly unfair.) --They are not on Darkseid's planet or any area of space under his direct control. --Mistress Death is not around to influence (or distract) Thanos. --They are on a barren, long-dead planet with nothing but desolate wasteland. Who would win? The Lord of Apokolips or the Demi-God of Death? EDIT: Shit, I meant to make this a poll. Yoda, could you fix this?

I think they could cut his skin, actually. I think if Darkseid can make him bleed, Wolverine's claws can. Adamantium is unbreakable. Superman isn't the strongest person in the universe, so I don't see the claws breaking simply by hitting Supes with them.

I reluctantly have to give this one to the Man of Steel. Wolvie has the healing factor, yes, but it doesn't mean he can't get knocked unconscious by a punch to the head from Supes. I don't see Wolverine being able to overcome Superman, honestly, which sucks because Wolverine is my second favorite comic book character ever.

Homepage for 8-Bit Theatre It's a twice-a-week Internet comic strip and it uses characters from Final Fantasy's early days. Except here, they are all either insanely stupid, extremely sarcastic, psychotic, or a combination of all three. Truly hilarious. Anyone who has ever played a Final Fantasy game needs to read these.

8-Bit Theatre!!! B) (8BT does count here, right?)

I am almost done collecting all the 10 original graphic novels of the 75 comic books in this astoundingly great series. I just need Volumes V, VII and X. Preludes and Nocturnes alone should have a shrine of gold made for it, not to mention the other volumes. Actually, Neil Gaiman should have two for himself alone for creating this godly series. I wish it hadn't ended... So what's your favorite Sandman issue/novel/character, etc.?