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In honor of the news today about Disney's pending four billion dollar acquisition of Marvel Entertainment, we bring you the following "What If?" style Poll Position question:
I've left it open for you to submit your own answers, so keep it clean. And funny!
I think we can dispense with the usual chin-scratching and blow-by-blow analysis on this one and just enjoy the fun of it, so have at it in the comments!
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Our Poll Position for the week involves Best Super Friends Forever:
Discussion after the jump.
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At first I was going to ask "Let's say Clark Kent has to die, what secret identity would you want to see Superman take on?" but then I ended up going more general instead:
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Enough with all this high-brow stuff that makes you think, says I, because you should never have to think! Instead we're going to keep it real simple this week folks:
Mockery and snide derision with a side of snark after the jump. It's probably going to be petty and immature, too, so scram if you don't want to put on your kindergarten Underoos and join in the fun.
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Our poll position question for this week dumps all that touchy-feely chick-flick nonsense and gets down to discussing what really matters to guys in super-hero movies -- fisticuffs!
Discussion after the jump. And many thanks to good buddy John for coming up with the question when I was out of ideas. You rule!
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Apologies for the slow posting, the site's been at a crawl all day and I got distracted drawing. The "Sky" set has morphed into general backgrounds and buildings, because once you get past clouds and stars and the sun, you're pretty much done as far as skies go. Who knew?
Anyway, our Poll Position this week puts you in the position of super-hero-in-training, as you get the chance to apprentice with one currently side-kickless character:
Discussion to follow!
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Our Poll Position question this week has to do with the difficulties of translating material from one medium -- in this case, comic books -- to the movie screen:
Discussion after the jump.
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This week's Poll Position is an unabashed dive head-first into giddy, gibbering fan-boi fantasy:
Discussion after the jump!
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I've long wondered what exactly it is that made Superman the mega-star he is when so many other characters from the Thirties long since faded away into utter obscurity (many of them found right here on these pages being made fun of, and what kind of life is that for a guy in tights?). Sure, he has lots of powers, but so did those other guys. And yes, he had a flashy costume, but so did a lot of the other crusaders running around the funny pages. Is it as simple as he was first, so he had dibs on the popular imagination?
Beyond that, though, the character has been through more re-imaginings and ret-cons and re-definitions than I can count, and yet his core still remains unquestionably "Superman". So what is it that makes him who he is, with a seeming death-grip on the American public consciousness as "the" super-hero? So here's the question I came up with to try and grapple with that issue:
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From Superman to The Flash to Green Lantern to, most recently, Captain America, killing off a main character and replacing him with someone else to wear their costume is a time-honored convention of the genre. So which of these long-established but rarely-killed-off characters would you like to see get that treatment?
Discussion after the jump.
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Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
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