The Ramblings of a Fool

 

Let the arguing begin anew… as far as these Ten Marvel Hero favorites of Tom’s… which is your favorite?

  

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  As always, there will be pissed off people wanting to know why other characters weren’t included. Marvel has thousands of characters, and these are ten of my favorites… classic enough to be known by many… had to sacrifice some newer cool folks, but thems are the breaks.—TF  

Let the arguing begin anew… as far as these Ten DC Hero favorites of Tom’s… which is your favorite?

Make sure to vote on all the polls.

 

Just like in the Marvel poll, there will be pissed off people wanting to know why other characters weren’t included. DC has tons of characters, and these are just ten of my favorites… classic enough to be known by many. I admittedly know little about the DC Universe and based my ten on a mix of a little comic book/graphic novel reading and a the rest on movies and TV shows/cartoons. Again, I’m sure I missed some newer, cooler cats, but that’s life.

—TF

I’ve made a new category in the blog called Fanboy, which includes Comics and Star Wars as sub-categories. The cat is officially out of the bag.

I’m sure to no one’s surprise, yours truly was a huge fanboy growing up. I started much later in the super-hero world than most fanboys and (mostly) gave it up later than most kids grow tired of it (but before reaching that fanboy point-of-no-return where you just say, “screw it… I’m an adult who loves me some funny books”).

Anyways, I just saw a featurette for the new Bryan Singer movie, Valkyrie and was reminded of the hollow experience that was X-Men: The Last Stand (a.k.a. X-Men 3… Bit o’ clarification: Bryan Singer had nothing to do with this flick, other than he was fired from it for agreeing to do Superman Returns). So seeing this got me all riled up (for the umpteenth time) and so I’ve decided to write about it.

What was:
The movie itself was not awful. It was good enough to get by and fine for a lot of the less discriminating types (kids, less-picky fanboys, effects-first fans), but to me (and many others), it felt like what I like to call a “First-draft Flick”.

The basic idea was there. The characters where there. The effects were there. What wasn’t there was what buddy of mine here at Continion calls the “spit and polish”. (more…)