KomicKev

Personally, I enjoy futuristic stories along with alternate universe stories or imaginary "what if?" kinds of stories. And I think DC does them a LOT better than Marvel for the most part (Age of Ultron anybody?). As a LONG time comic book reader, I can easily get bored with the same old standard fare, so I don't get all bothered about what seemingly bothers a lot of fans. Look people, you don't like the idea, the concept? Fine, don't buy the book. My guess is that a lot of people will pick it up (at least initially) just to see what it is all about. Maybe the doubters will change their mind or maybe the comic will suck. Regardless, I'll give it a try myself.

@mynamewasdeleted: I would be OK with them doing a 'who shot JR' dream thing to make all the "badstuffs" go away

No, no - - JR getting shot wasn't a dream. Bobby dying was a dream and then it was all okay when Pam woke up and found him standing in the shower.

Let's see - - would this work or not? I say . . . NOT! Johnny and Sue Storm are biological siblings established many decades ago. Both are blond hair and blue eyed. Even in the Ultimate universe, they were originally portrayed thus (how they are currently, I have no idea as I don't follow the Ultimate universe any longer - - didn't some of the F4 die or something?).

Now if they want to make this dude the original android Human Torch and eventually turn him into the Vision, then I would have no problem with that. What if they proposed a white Luke Cage or *gasp!* "White" Panther? Let the uproar begin!

Let's face it: NOBODY is going to make a superhero movie (or ANY movie for that matter) that is going to please everyone. It is never going to happen. Even "The Avengers" movie still ticked off some diehard, comic-book-reading movie goers ("Where was Ant Man and the Wasp? waaahhhhh!").

Yes, I absolutely did not like The Mandarin scenario but that didn't hurt my overall enjoyment of the movie. I didn't read the Extremis story line in the Iron Man comics so I didn't know what to expect and so I liked the story a lot. Everyone has a right to their opinions on any movie they see and those that didn't like it (yet rushed to see the first midnight showing of it instead of waiting for reviews) -- that's fine. As I said, not everyone has to like the same movies.

Well Lord knows we don't have enough X-Men books out there! LOL!

I think this could've worked better as a mini-series but I understand the marketing ploy of trying to bring in more female readers. With The Defenders title and this one, it's not too long I'd imagine before an all-female Avengers title comes along.

Well, I really enjoyed the movie . . . most of it. I really, REALLY didn't like what they did with the Mandarin and I'll leave it at that so I don't spoil it for others.

I liked his interaction with the kid. It seemed like they got familiar with each other very quickly in the way they conversed but I think that's more of a necessity due to time limitations so I accepted that. I liked the big ending and I sorta-kinda liked what they did with Pepper at that time as well. Better than a damsel-in-distress scenario.

Unfortunately, I saw this here in China and all of the Chinese parts were not subtitled in English (although all the English parts were subtitled in Chinese!), so I missed some of what was going on. Although I do know some of the language, when it's being spoken that fast, it loses me.

I'll definitely watch it again on DVD (so I can get what I missed) and am sure to enjoy it the second time around as well. Question - - they cut it off here but was there a special end-of-credits scene this time around?

You know what I like about the X-Men from that era? There weren't so damn many of them!!!! I like how they used previously established X-Men characters (Cyclops, Banshee, Jean Grey), and just had a few more new ones (Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Kitty, Nightcrawler, a couple others), and then special guest spots or cameos by someone like Havok or Sunfire, etc. Now I need a scorecard to tell me who's who - - and I really don't even know all the mutants running around these days!

Anytime I see "future" versions of current characters come back, some of them are old and gnarled and gray and whatever - - just days away from their death beds. However, we never see the current day characters actually age very much. The original X-Men are nearly 50 years old now. Why aren't they now their future selves?

Also, wouldn't this new crossover event have been a good time to reintroduce X-Men 2099 (akin to the rumor that Spider-Man 2099 is going to appear over in Superior Spider-Man)? I don't know how beloved that series was, but there was a handful of characters that at least had potential.

"Often WHEN we read superhero stories, we fail to . . . ", yes?

Daredevil had a history with the Black Widow, so that could be an easy team-up sort of movie if they wanted and a perfect connection to the Avengers universe.

Personally, I really enjoyed the Daredevil movie. I may have to dig it out and watch it again soon.

Daredevil also had a connection with the Defenders in the early days. It's beyond me why nobody considers a Defenders movie: Doctor Strange, Hulk, Daredevil, and introduce a couple other characters such as Hellcat or Valkyrie or Nightwing (sadly, the Silver Surfer can't make it due to the F4 being over at Fox still) - - Sub-Mariner?