> "rwa2play, The Northern Lariat" gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:48910ca3$0$7336$607ed4bc@cv.net...

>> Acolyte Of Glorious La Parka~ wrote:

>>> "rwa2play, The Northern Lariat" gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:488fcbb4$0$20901$607ed4bc@cv.net...

>>>> Becoming something you're not [was LH] wrote:

>>>>> In article<488fb4a2$0$20927$607ed4bc@cv.net>,
>>>>> "rwa2play, The Northern Lariat"gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>>> Becoming something you're not [was LH] wrote:
>>>>>>

>>>>>>> In article,
>>>>>>> "GregoryD"gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>> "David E. Powell"msn.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:def0c4f5-57c3-40a7-8a0f-b502b981de06@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>>>>>>>> On Jul 29, 12:41 pm, Anonymousremailer.paranoici.org>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>> Explain the appeal, fanboys.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> He wasn't from a far off planet, given some magic ring or zapped
>>>>>>>>> by
>>>>>>>>> radiation. He's just a guy with dark baggage fighting a lonely war
>>>>>>>>> against evil. His greatest powers are his brains and he's a
>>>>>>>>> determined
>>>>>>>>> human being at the core.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Similar appeal to Iron Man.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm not really into comic books and all but I get this.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>> He's not "just a guy."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He's a freaking billionaire who has the magical ability to make
>>>>>>>> groups of
>>>>>>>> people with machine guns to drop their weapons and try to fight him
>>>>>>>> hand to
>>>>>>>> hand one on one. If he were just a guy, the first movie would have
>>>>>>>> been
>>>>>>>> about 20 minutes long, because as soon as the Chinese police
>>>>>>>> arrested him,
>>>>>>>> that'd be all you ever heard about him.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> Yep. This is why I can't fucking stand the character. It's
>>>>>>> completely
>>>>>>> unbelievable even in a world where saying something backwards makes
>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>> happen. That and the whole there is nothing at all appealing about
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> character besides the fact that he always wins.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>

>>>>>> Ummm not to burst your bubble there, but it is based on a comic book.
>>>>>> To
>>>>>> try and even rationalize anything that happens in the movie...will
>>>>>> just
>>>>>> give you migraines.
>>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Wow.... I take it somebody hasn't actually read an issue of the
>>>>> comic
>>>>> in the past 20 years. Nor even heard of Zatanna/Zatarra.
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>
>>>> Nah, I just take it as entertainment. Entertain me and I'm happy.
>>>>
>>>> That's why I haven't read Marvel in over a year: They stopped being
>>>> entertaining.

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Umm, they stopped being entertaining a LONG TIME AGO.

>>
>> '85, you reckon?

>
>
>
> *PFFT* Hell, I had LONG stopped reading by '85 (I only came back in the
> early '90's with SILVER SURFER #48. It was during the 'Infinity Gauntlet'
> event). Before that the last time I'd read anything Marvel was FANTASIC
> FOUR #236 (or thereabouts; that's late '70's or early '80's. I wasn't
> going to pay 40 cents an issue for sucky stories).
>
> O.K., I WILL admit I marked for the "Age of Apocalypse" storyline (got all
> the issues). But immediately after that the X-Men went downhill fast.
> And it was reflected in the other titles. I held out hope that they'de
> get better, but they turn out such crap & dreck these days I've given up
> hope. I REALLY don't need or desire to see Wolverine guest-starring in 70%%
> of each monthly book. Nowadays I just buy the stuff because...Well,
> actually, I don't KNOW why I still buy the stuff.
>