Andrew Cermak

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever Considering your response to the Spider-Man/Thor scans, I don't really think you want to pursue this argument. After all, Eric/Thor said he was being worn down, and you wanted to argue that he wasn't.

Re: Best SuperHero Fights ever Thanos vs. Earth's surviving heroes in Infinity Gauntlet #4. Batman vs. Superman in TDKR.

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever Except the part about the Avengers, which is what I meant to address. The Avengers did have a larger role in the storyline than that of Spidey's cheerleading squad, as you put it. They had an issue centered on it.

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever That's not exactly true. I haven't read it, but Avengers #258 has the aftermath of the Spidey/Firelord fight. The Avengers took him into custody.

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever Yeah...but before he got really, really overexposed, Badass Sabretooth was an effective, scary villain. A powerup that improves a character's readability can't be too bad.

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever said the pot to the soap bar. Or have we forgotten your creative interpretation of the Spiderfan review? I didn't expressly say it, no, but I implied it when I said he ended the fight thereby. If she'd already been unconscious, the fight would have been over already. A building on a cliff, yes. And I didn't restate it because that had been established in a previous post and didn't need correction. Combined with the preamble, I do. If he can collapse a building on Firelord to soften him up, he can throw Titania out of a building to finish her off. Do you think Titania would have been KO'd if he'd just walked up behind her and pushed her off a ledge the same height? I don't. I don't think so. He mocked her the entire time and was never pressured or endangered.

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Re: Worst comic book superfight ever

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever It's not listed in his power suite, but there are a multitude of examples. It's possibly explained by Spidey's tendency to hold back from his full strength in most situations.

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever That would be interesting, if the review actually said that. Looks like a draw.

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Re: Worst comic book superfight ever They've fought more times than these.

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever Spidey didn't KO him. They ended up teaming up to chase down Absorbing Man and Titania. The point is that he *hurt* him and wore him down, with an onslaught nearly identical to the one that took down Firelord. The difference being that Spidey was enraged when he attacked Firelord (and Spidey gets stronger when he's angry), and had spent a lot of time wearing Firelord down beforehand. If he can hurt a Thor stand-in with a spontaneous assault, the idea that he could briefly take down one of the weaker Heralds after a protracted running battle doesn't seem so far above his abilities.

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Re: Worst comic book superfight ever A couple scans that may be of interest for the Spidey vs. Firelord discussion.

Re: Gravitar vs Graviton? Spidey didn't get the Uni-Power until after he first fought Graviton. He also fought Graviton shortly after he lost the Uni-Power, along with several other Acts of Vengeance villains.

Re: The New Avengers - Good Or Bad, Threat Or Menace? There are few villain teams out there that vary as much from showing to showing as the Wrecking Crew. That's on the editors' shoulders.

Re: The New Avengers - Good Or Bad, Threat Or Menace? It happened because Fabian Nicieza wrote it that way. He wanted the Thunderbolts to look good and the Avengers to look like chumps, so that's how he wrote it. It was rather silly.

Re: The New Avengers - Good Or Bad, Threat Or Menace?

Re: The New Avengers - Good Or Bad, Threat Or Menace? Many, many mooks in his own series. Few people in team books, and those often mercy killings, or villains who later turned up not dead.

Re: Artwork in the Predators book I have Normals Unbound. The art never bothered me, because I could show a player a picture of someone and not fear that they wouldn't take the character seriously. If I show a player the picture of Buckshot striking a pose, or SNAFU on his knees for some inexplicable reason, I will have completely defanged the character and made them an object of derision rather than fear. That's a very basic failure on the part of the artist that goes beyond inexperience and into incompetence.

Re: Artwork in the Predators book I found most of Champions Worldwide's art to be quite respectable. I didn't care for the pieces by that pseudo-manga artist who keeps turning up, but the rest of the art was decent to good.

Re: Artwork in the Predators book The artist that apparently thought men's fashion catalogs would be a good place to find visual inspiration for drawings of terrorists, mercenaries, and killers really shouldn't work in this industry again.

Re: Which villain needs an overhaul? White Rhino got a write-up in The Ultimate Brick, Al the Alligator-man is in Vibora Bay, and I believe the Saurian and El Tiburon are written up in Champions Worldwide.

Re: Which villain needs an overhaul? Reread the descriptions. Nowhere does it say that those comprised the entirety of her invasion force. It implies the opposite, in fact. So, we still don't know what she came with or how she came with it. Just that her grunts are built on as many points as a Heroic character, which puts them well ahead of any Earth military's grunts.