I suddenly flashed on all the really earnest, but really bad vids (most likely to sarah mclachlan) that will be made if that's in the movie.
Hauser: You really think you can solve the problem? Come into Wolfram & Hart and make everything right? Turn night into glorious day? You pathetic little fairy. Angel: I'm not little.
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askye - Jul 05, 2005 9:27:38 am PDT #5221 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
DavidS - Jul 05, 2005 9:28:41 am PDT #5222 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fantastic Four launched Marvel as a superhero company. (Kirby and Lee had already been working together on monster comics.) They're definitely in the pantheon of Major Heroes, and the first 100 issues are all essential for creating the Marvelverse. Mas importante (in the comics world anyway).
Tom Scola - Jul 05, 2005 9:29:11 am PDT #5223 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I don't know how true it is. At least the new HL movie can't be worse than Endgame. right?
They said the same thing about Highlander II: The Quickening
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2005 9:29:47 am PDT #5224 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's amazing how little perspective I have on who knows what about comics without being a reader. I figured that everyone knew Batman's parents had been killed, for instance.
Polter-Cow - Jul 05, 2005 9:34:27 am PDT #5225 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Fantastic Four may well have been the very first comic book characters I discovered. When I was really really young, I read some sort of a children's book about them. You know, with very little text and lots of colorful pictures. I may have crushed on the Invisible Woman.
Melpomene - Jul 05, 2005 9:34:28 am PDT #5226 of 10002
Ever fired your gun in the air and yelled, 'Aaaaaaah?'
I've never read a Batman comic and I knew his parents have been killed. I don't know where I picked that up, though.
erikaj - Jul 05, 2005 9:38:46 am PDT #5227 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I used to read the FF comic a lot, when I read comics.
askye - Jul 05, 2005 9:40:55 am PDT #5228 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I'm pretty sure in the first Batman movie they showed his parents dying.
Jessica - Jul 05, 2005 9:42:29 am PDT #5229 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I figured that everyone knew Batman's parents had been killed, for instance.
Is it really possible to have heard of Batman and not know this?
Fay - Jul 05, 2005 9:45:05 am PDT #5230 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
From my medium-interest-in-comics viewpoint, that seems really unlikely. The Fantastic 4 were a group that got their powers at the same time in the same accident. Sue, her husband, her brother, and their friend. They may work with other people, but the four? Just them.
But Spidey did knock about with them quite a lot, whether formally or informally. Took on Doctor Doom together, that kind of thing. Also, they play poker with him. And Angel from X Men, and a couple of other guys. I think I know about The Fantastic Four from a mixture of cartoons on the telly and, quite possibly, because they were in one of the Spidey comics that I used to read when I was wee. I remember a really really depressing plotline in which Mr Fantastic and the Invisible Girl lost their child - can't remember if it died, or what, and it all happened on some other planet/some other dimension. But it was serious marriage breakdown worthy stuff. And I was only wee, and thought at the time "blimey, comics are a lot less cheerful than grown ups would have us believe. Huh."
Spider man and his Amazing Friends (Iceman and Firestar)
Ooh! I remember them!