The Unholy Dragon
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It was. Mostly because he wanted a hook so people would give a shit about a SHIELD show otherwise starring exactly zero film characters. But Marvel then said "Uh Joss...we want you doing Age of Ultron, not this show" and he passed it off. Then working on Age of Ultron he realized that resurrecting Coulson undermined his sacrifice (debateable given it was already established Fury embellished for effect, but his feeling) which in turn led to him deciding to ignore everything in AoS within the MU proper.
Honestly it increasingly feels like Agents of SHIELD is the show no one really wanted or knew what to do with but got big enough that they had to keep doing it. It's definitely the bastard child of the MU regardless.
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The 89 Batmobile racetracks are the only races I've actually had fun with in the game.
Then again, I've enjoyed the Batmobile more since it stopped being mandatory. Also having one that doesn't look like total shit helps.
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Really, I don't think Joss has had much to do with the show since the first couple episodes. It's Jed and Mo.
*pilot
Joss has even gone on record saying it was a terrible idea to bring Coulson back and trying to declare the series non-canon. It seems pretty clear he wants his name to disappear from any association with it.
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I'm waiting for big screen Imperiex.
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August DLC drops today for Season Pass holders.
Some clarification: You CAN use the io Batmobile in the main game but only once you've finiahed all the drones and Cobra tanks. Because there's no combat mode.
In addition to challenge maps for Batman, Catwoman, Nightwing, and Robin the September DLC will include the Tumbler from The Dark Knight as a skin and a Nightwing story mission set after the main game.
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I mean, the joke works at least twice as well because of Bojack apparently being the only one to see through it.
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Bojack Season 2 made me go from hating...fucking HATING Mr. Peanut Butter to liking and empathizing with him a lot.
Season 2 also had the killer Cosby episode with Hank Hippopopolis.
Fun fact: My wife and I have a ball python named after Vincent Adultman. Partly because that jome is the best.
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They're definitely trying to kill the licenses drawing power plus
Isn't the rumor that the end of the Secret Wars will feature the deaths of Reed and Sue since they are nowhere to be found post-Secret Wars
Nope.
The rumour is that they kill Franklin and Valeria.
Also I can't help but wonder if Galactus or Annihilus couldn't be used for GotG by way of the Quicksilver precedent. Annihilus would be the safer bet since he hasn't appeared in a movie in any fashion yet.
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Mostly what they're trying to do is kill the licenses. The FF are being shuffled around into Marvel controlled books. The X titles are reduced, but half the Avengers titles could have been X books around the premise. Hell, one is about Sunspot and Cannonball while the other is a mutant-human PR team. And the first run of Uncanny Avengers had sequels to AvX, Uncanny X-Force, and Onslaught.
They're trying to kill the brands by moving the meaningful parts elsewhere. Cake and eat it too. But I expect a lot of that comes from the reduction orders coming down from on high and no one terribly liking them.
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Eckhart's kind of bland, isn't he?
I would never think of 'bland' for him. If anything he's super charismatic within a limited range of roles. Ala John Cusack, Sam Jackson, Johnny Depp, or RDJ. You know what you're getting with any of them but it'll never be boring.
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It's not like he's not working, but how the fuck did Aaron Eckhart fail to translate The Dark Knight into a leading man career?
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Comic books have definitely become kind of a niche in their own right, despite the comic movie takeover. Which is interesting.
But the bottom line is, if the Fantastic Four could be counted on to sell 100,000 or so copies every month like the Spider-Man or X-Men lines, THEY WOULDN'T BE CANCELLED. Period. Studio politics be damned, because they would represent too big of a slice of their publishing pie to lose.
As it is, the Fantastic Four are a niche of a niche.
Spider-man and X-Men don't regularly sell 100k either outside crossovers and stunts. The only superhero comic that's sold 100k regularly in the last few years is Batman.
The highest selling X-Men title in March sold about 56k. Spider-man sold 92k but it's also doing much better than it trended before about 2-3 years ago due to a couple of successful stunts.
There are series that have lived between 20k and 30k for years, being considered reliable successes. Fantastic Four was still selling fine, nothing about its performance inspired the cancellation. Also they keep pretending it wasn't cancelled cancelled and is just pending a reboot like everything else around Secret Wars. If you believe the word, it'll be back after the film Blu Ray release period is done.
Where you're not entirely wrong is that if it were a better seller then it would be too costly to do this out of spite. Ala X-Men.
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Hey now. The recent restructuring of the line has put out a ton of great books. Very much a 'something for everyone' deal in tone and diversity. Beats the hell out of this time last year.
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Just started The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker. Only through the prologue so far but it's definitely been set up as an epic and fucked up ride.
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Oh hell yeah for the respect for Fantasy by DYE. Three minute music video that KOs a ton of horror in quality.
Seen a couple of those otherwise. Lights Out is great. I'll need to run throuh the rest.
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I think they saw what happened with Daredevil. Marvel got him back and cleaned up on Netflix with a critically acclaimed, super successful take on the character. Then used the recently returned Punisher to hype Season 2.
Honestly? I think it's worth $200 mil/decade for them just to play keep away. At least in their minds.
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God. Why do people keep linking villain OTPs to origins? It ruined Joker in Batman 89, Luthor in the comics, and fucking Doom twice in films. Just have him be an egomaniac with a power suit who can't stand Reed being smarter than him.
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I've been saying for years that the worst thing about Green Lantern is that it's neither good nor bad, it just simply IS.
I maintain that if you just watched the space and action scenes it's pretty good. It's only 40 minutes long, but pretty good.
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Unpopular opinion time: The Schumacher Bat-films smoke the shitty Burton ones. By virtue of the Burton ones being just as ridiculous and nonsensical while taking themselves hyper seriously while the Schumacher films are content to be insane sendups to Batman 66.
Also Batman 89 is boring and terrible and Jack Nicholson's Joker fucking sucks.
COME AT ME!
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So given they came out inside a month of each other I actually preferred Incredible Hulk to Iron Man for about a year. I was super burned out on origins and enjoyed them skipping that bit while also being glad to get a super fun Hulk/Abomination fight. Once we got more movies that hit the ground running the flaws started setting in.
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Red Hood story pack also hit for non-Gamestop PS4 Season Pass users.
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Depending on how long it was it may have just refreshed it. Try dumping it out again.
Also mind that the landing site makes no actual sense relative to where the airships are. I thought I lost it until I dumped in the water and happened to come up right beside it.
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I mean, Batgirl is out, skins pack is soon, Harley/Red Hood exclusivity apparently ends in September, and Challenge Pack 1 was confirmed with the latest update, with 1 implying more in the future. There's a lot confirmed with at least three months of additional content to come.
For $30 after the credit? I'd do it. But then I got the Season Pass when I bought the game so I'm probably on the Kool Aid.
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I'm jazzed for Season of Infamy and more short story missions. Getting actual challenge mode packs starting in September is good but it's annoying they didn't just port the challenge mode from City/Origins.
Definitely looks like $40 well spent though. That's almost a full game's worth of DLC.
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I dug that they were the opener. And that was basically the ideal Batman 66 style Bane and the only time I'm down with him being turned into a burly Luchador.
Darkseid War is maybe the best Geoff Johns epic since Blackest Night. It's been heating up nicely and stuff stepped up this issue. Feels like it should be longer than what's currently planned honestly.