I don’t know about you, but I haven’t had the time to get into MMORPG’s. I’m pretty sure that’s what DC Universe Online is; it looks like that City of Heroes game, but with actual DC characters in it, which, apparently, you can play ALONGSIDE, but not be able to play AS. Harumph.

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It looks pretty cool, I don’t know. I think it has lots of potential to be fun, at least. However I think it would have been best if they showed more of what you’d ACTUALLY be doing–customizing and leveling up a superhero of your own design within the DC Universe–rather than all the ‘Look at all the heroes you won’t be able to play as’ shenanigans. I’m also not impressed by the Jim Lee mention, because I haven’t been particularly impressed with him since the heady days of the early 90’s and “X-Men 1″ with the wraparound cover.

What say you?

Y’know, I’m going to get to it one of these days soon, but it’s occurred to me that the currently-airing Spider-Man cartoon, “The Spectacular Spider-Man”, is quite possibly the best rendition of Spider-Man onscreen to date. Certainly the best cartoon, and possibly–possibly–better than the movies. It hits all the right notes, gets right to the core of what makes Spidey work, and is incredible fun. But I digress.

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It seems they’ve gone and made an Iron Man cartoon, for some reason. It couldn’t possibly be to captitalize on the movie’s immense popularity. No. No, it must be because they want to better-explore the artistic and emotional underpinnings of this character. That HAS to be it.

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Now, then. I didn’t read the Orson Scott Card-written Ultimate Iron Man, and I know that he was a teenager in that, but this looks to be a faaaar cry from that. At first glance it appears that there is SOME skill involved, but c’mon, a teenage Rhodey, too? What’s the point of this? To make it more appealing to kids, right? I seem to remember a day and age where it didn’t fucking matter if every property aimed at kids had a kid character in it or not. What is it lately? Spider-Man as a kid makes sense. Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor simply cannot work as teenagers. Am I crazy? What up people?

Oh, and ARMORED ADVENTURES?!! Really?

SO, the NY Times is reporting on Robert Kirkman’s next online adventure–MTV is apparently airing webisodes of the Invincible comics!

“They animated Invincible?”, you are no doubt wondering, “Why wasn’t I notified?!!”

To which I reply: “Not exactly”. Apparently, they’ve taken the actual comics themselves and basically moved the (virtual) camera around the comics pages, adding music and sound effects, and gave voice to the characters while also showing you the text balloons.

Personally I think it’s an exciting new addition to online comics, and a half-step towards animation that really works; we’re seeing the ORIGINAL comic art, which I feel is a big coup for comics artists, and it’s in a format that might bring a whole new audience to comics in general…

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