Browsing: Major Spoilers

When I was a kid, I was totally into cars, especially the weird concept cars of Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth, and spent a great deal of time reading about and identifying vehicles of all stripes and origins.  Now that I’ve grown up to become the world’s biggest comic nerd (by volume), I tend to do the same thing with superheroes, but that doesn’t mean that the earlier knowledge has just gone away…  Welcome to Ten Things!

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As vehicles go, the van kind of gets a bad rap.  The full-size edition is mostly used for punchlines about hippies and/or criminals, while the mini-version is maligned as the purview of suburban ladies in mom jeans.  It’s a sad Catch-22, given the sheer cool cats and ladies who have vans of their own in fiction.  Would you tell Fred Jones his van is uncool?  Or B.A. Baracus?  Or Inspector Gadget?  Okay, really only one of those guys is in any way intimidating, but the other two are still pretty cool, and even if Greg Universe’s ride doubles as his…

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Recently, I made an offhand complaint to a friend that ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ was ticking me off with the difficulty of a particular video game mission, only to get an astonished response of “I didn’t know you were a gamer!”  She’s now campaigning for me to buy an X-Bone so we can cause mayhem together (I’m seriously considering it, to be honest), but I’m not certain where I would even keep such a thing.  With the Wii U and the Playstation 3 on our main HD TV, my N64 hooked up in the bedroom, and a perfectly functional Atari…

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One of the biggest issues of being a comics fan is the embarrassment factor.  Not my person embarrassment, I got past that in about the 10th grade, but the embarrassment of the creators and adaptors of the work I love.  For instance, when Paul Levitz took over the retro-booted Legion a few years ago, his first order of business was shuffling Matter-Eater Lad, Bouncing Boy and others (whose renaissance was part of the reason that the new Legion was interesting in the first place, BTW) off-screen so he could rehash the same three romances and feature a sociopathic killer as…

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Top Five Wasted Twitter Handles Top Five is a show where the hosts categorize, rank, compare, and stratify everything… from cars to gadgets to people and movies. From stuff that is hot, and things that are not nearly as interesting – it’s Top Five. Think you have a great Twitter handle? Guess again as Bruce gives you the rundown on the top five wasted Twitter handles in this week’s Top Five Express.

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