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totally agree. if it would have lead to a slew of different teams, like JL: Dark, JL: Space, JL: Multiverse, then it would have made sense. But since that never happened, the name just sounds stupid. also, holy shit now i want a JL: Multiverse team that travels to different universes. Not unlike eXiles, now that i think about it. Sign me up!

i'll give it a shot. The way i read comics tends to focus more on either (A) short events/miniseries/crossovers or (B) just a boatload of comics in a row, with litle/no break in between, so unless something drastically stands out from the runs around it (ex: Morrison's Batman), then it's hard to pick out specific "runs". 10. Jonathan Hickman's X-Men 9. Jim Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 8. Ed Brubaker's Captain America 7. Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo 6. Marv Wolfman/George Perez' New Teen Titans 5. Chris Claremont/John Byrne's Uncanny X-Men 4. Kurt Busiek's Astro City 3. Grant Morrison's Batman 2. Jim Starlin's Thanos ("Infinity Gauntlet" and its surrounding minis and crossovers) 1. Alan Moore's Miracleman

#8 seems way too low for that run. i would easily have it in my top 5. could be higher, depending on what does/doesn't count.

FWIW, i thought the Superbad nickname predated the Sabian-Ford-Janela situation, but i could be mistaken. maybe it was just before i heard about it. Sabian is great in his role as valet for Ford. outside of that, he is as mediocre as it gets. His BTE skits are easily the worst of the bunch.

speaking of Kinnikuman, a couple years ago i found the first episode (and only the first ep) dubbed into English. now that i'm looking for it again, i'm striking out. anybody run across it recently?

Joey Janela is such a weird case. he's a guy that i really want to root for, but he doesn't look the part, doesn't wrestle the part, and only sometimes acts the part of his character. plus he's played no real meaningful role in AEW so far. at this point i don't really know what he offers besides taking ridiculous bumps, and he hasn't shown that in what feels like a year. Sonny Kiss is a channel changer for me, so i couldn't care less about their tag team. regardless of how this post sounds, i do like Janela. i just wish he/AEW gave me a reason to.

i agree, but with two caveats: 1) my recency bias is strong, and 2) i don't watch as many cards as i used to AND don't watch as closely. but yeah, this card rocked all the way through.

i wonder why the name change for Simone Sherie, as the commentators only refered to her by the name C.C. Chanel. took me out of the match, TBH. man, Kelly and Rosa really did beat the hell out of each other. definitely a match worth watching. i had Priscilla Kelly confused with Bea Priestley in my head, so when the match started i was quite confused for a second. Didn't take long before i realized that i'm just an idiot. But now i really want to see Thunder Rosa face Bea.

i agree with everything you posted. but it's easy to see that ONE is talking big but presenting no facts to back that up. They're not the first, they won't be the last. Maybe someday they'll blow up huge and accomplish all the things they're saying they've already done. Maybe someday they'll go out of business. Who knows? But right now, they're just blowing smoke.

i'm of the belief that Cody said that (and 'i want to get over just having one name') because he believed that, or wanted to believe that, or was trying to convince himself that it was true. Cody obviously has a ton of respect for everything his dad accomplished and loved being intertwined with him. there's little chance he would purposefully not use the Rhodes name.

holy shit is right. never seen the dude fight, didn't know he was signed with UFC either. i guess if you're gonna go down, you may as well make it an epic failure.

is a Curry Man cameo too much to ask for in AEW?

whoa! i've seen the thumbnails but i thought those were from the 2009 NWA Showcase. Excellent!! thanks @Web Conn!! also, i forgot about the Cornette bit. i guess that would explain some of it. still feels odd for an episodic series though.

why they never showed the triple threat match where James Storm became the #1 contender still baffles me. they referenced the match on-air and talked about it not airing. at least show highlights or something! once these tapings run out, i wish they'd offer up the 10-12 NWA Showcase episodes they aired in 2008. Marquez owns the footage. Put them out somewhere!

i bought it and beat it in November. great game. i don't know what kind of issues it had, but outside of once when the game crashed on me i didn't have any problems.

umm, yes please. this is a perfectly exploratory way to utilize MITB and, while it shouldn't be used every year, stuff like ANY of these suggestions should be used occasionally to add some drama. While sometimes the most logical outcome is the best, that doesn't mean that it's the only outcome (besides the completely opposite "swerve the fans" deal). a MITB ladder match has been a yearly staple for 15 years (FIFTEEN!). it's a decade past time to mix it up.

@The Naturalis one of my favorite posters. We share many of the same interests and outlooks. Cheers! changing the subject, recommend me some 80s or 90s battle royals to watch. no Royal Rumbles, please. good, bad, or indifferent. i've got a quiet weekend ahead of me.

when it comes to Andre, kayfabe is always alive!

Infinity Gauntlet and Age of Apocalypse are my top two. order depends on which day you ask me. worst? Secret Wars II (1985). what a mess. haven't read Civil War 2 but i also haven't heard from anyone who enjoyed it.

first Invicta, now Titan? PFL's gonna lose their breakout star.

then i rescind my statement. i've not followed X-comics of that era, but i don't see anything that i missed really being followed up on. no mention of the O5, Utopia, things like that. but from someone who did read those books, i'm glad that you don't see stuff dropped completely. thank you.

read this storyline during the Thanksgiving break. Thought it was excellent. Immediately upon finishing, i wondered if it was on your list. Cheers, @The Natural. I don't think i'll do this for each individual story but wanted to call out how right you were on this one.

i am now halfway through reading X of Swords (i waited until it finished being published before beginning a read) and i absolutely love it. the history of Apocalypse (and his Horsemen) is SO FUCKING GOOD! I think Hickman's run is brilliant, but i am curious how this will hold up over time. first, does everything revert when his stint as writer is over? how much credit does he receive/relinquish for creating an entirely new status quo that is crazy and imaginative but essentially ignoring so much that's happened to these characters the last 20 years? Like, in 2030, will Hickman's run be essential reading, or will it just be this weird aside that happened one time? i don't know what's happening in the current Cable (when did he get young?) or Excalibur (Psylocke = Captain Britain?) but i don't think it's affected the read much. I feel they've done a decent job of alluding to enough to connect the dots (at least for me: i read all the X-Men comics from the beginning until 2000 a couple years back, so a lot of that semi-obscure stuff is still fairly fresh).

wow, yeah. i never would've made that connection but it does seem obvious now. thanks!

thanks for this thread, @Goodear. Should spark some interesting convos. But first, missed opportunities! re: 5. i was hoping that he would wrestle with his luscious blond hair once, but unless i missed it, he never did. re: Allie. when she kinda sorta joined the Nightmare Family, they should have kept the Bunny with Butcher&Blade. Just never acknowledge that they are the same person. it surely would've been better than just dropping one angle for the other, and then doing it in reverse.