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Mathan’s under the weather, and you know what that means!!!!

No? You don’t?

Oh…well, it means a feedback column. YEAH!!!!!!!!

Neil had thoughts on the 7/20 column

DC/Marvel fight I want to see? Captain Marvel vs. Firestorm (I’d love to see Rick Jones and Ronnie meet, especially if Ronnie calls upon the period where he and Mikhail served as the “advisors” to the new Firestorm personality that emerged in the late 80’s), followed by Captain Marvel vs. the Marvel Family (The scene where Captain Marvel, Jr. meets Captain Marvel writes itself, with CM3 exclaiming “You’re Captain Marvel? And becoming Freddy Freeman again.)

You almost had me interested. Then you mentioned CM3. Man, I thought we were friends, Neil. Why’d you go and do that?

Legion also has a fight he’d like to see;

As for which DC/Marvel fight I’d love to see… Namor/Black Adam. Can you just imagine the ego these two would bring? They’re both very powerful, self-righteous rulers of a country. Hell, it would write itself.

Imagine the ears!

Also, “it would write itself”? Isn’t that just a little too much pressure to put on an idea? The guy has it hard enough just existing and now you expect him to sit down and just right himself (or herself, I suppose)? You are a taskmaster.

Admiral Snackbar also shares his thoughts on the column (and we, wisely) completely ignore his question

I think the problem with For Tomorrow is reading it over the space of a year. I’ve sat down to read it all at once (more or less) and it’s a pretty decent story. And it never explicitly states that the people were gone for a full year, which makes the idea of the Vanishing easier to swallow.

But I totally agree with the messy execution. I still have no idea what the hell was going on with that Aquaman scene. He shows up in the arctic with an army of sea creatures, but then the next issue, in fact, the rest of the story, he doesn’t appear. Same with that Halycon woman. So there’s my question for the column. Explain her for me, if possible. (She was the woman with Wonder Woman, who summoned the elemental creatures and had that knife.)

Neil has some thoughts on 7/28 column

The Space Team: I think, storywise, the point was to distract Alex for a second, so that the Tower could be destroyed. But it was really unnecessary.

52: I’m really digging it, but I think part of it is because I only go to the comic shop on a bi-weekly (or longer) basis. The series reads better in large chunks, then week to week.

Batwoman: I think my main problem is that Kate is coming off as too similar to Batman. I don’t think her parents are dead, but other than that we’ve got the “comes from money” aspect and her whole demeanor is very similar to Bruce’s. I would have liked if she were portrayed as being different than Batman.

OYO: Bruce, Dick, and Tim kidnapped Suri Cruise. No lie. Bruce, and you wouldn’t know this by reading his comics, hates Scientology with a passion. I mean, he’s surrounded by aliens all the time, he’s not about to believe that they are responsible for all the evil in the world.

Anyway, they kidnapped Suri and, while the beginning of the year sounds more like Raising Arizona, what with the baby knapping, believe me, the majority of the year was all Three Men and a Baby.

When Suri peed after Dick took off her diaper to change her, hi-larious!

Wonder Woman, on the other hand, could not believe the news that Lance Bass is gay. She spent the first part of the year convinced that he wasn’t gay, he just needed “the right woman.”

After that failed, miserably, she decided to take on an easier task, brokering a peace agreement in the Middle East, where she met Steve Trevor and decided it wasn’t worth the headache, so she and Steve spent the last part of the year partying like it was 1999 (B.C., of course).

Clark took Jimmy to Africa and, little known fact, were the two who shot the first pictures of Shiloh Jolie Pitt.

After their return, Clark spent some time doing the whole “need to get my powers back” montage (see “Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite” and “Power Struggle” for past attempts).

He finally gave up and decided to live life like a regular, average guy, for once.

Justice League of America: I find it hard to believe that a Flash wouldn’t be on the League, but none of the shadows look like a Flash.

I personally don’t think there should be a League without a Flash or without J’onn, but I think J’onn is going to be off the team, at least until the resolution of his mini-series.

Plus, Bart, being a Titan, would qualify as graduating to the League. Which annoys me, because I really liked having Kid Flash in the Titans, but I can’t see Bart staying there.

DC One Million: I love this “event” so much. I thought it was intersting how, in that future, Billy had taken the mantle of Shazam, and well, here we are…

I had really hoped to see more of the Justice Legion A, but I think, really only Grant Morrison could write them.

Legion feels the need to attack Hal Jordan;

Regarding Jordan’s killing spree. I will always be of the mind that Jordan DID kill all those GLs. I honestly don’t care how they retcon it, he did it in my mind. Like Tim said, some of those there were clearly dead besides Sinestro and Kilowog. And I just flipped through the Guy Gardner arc Emerald Fallout, which dealt with heroes finding out what happened on Oa. It clearly shows dead GLs floating in space one panel. Did they ever go to explain those, or was it just swept under the rug like all the rest of the GLs Jordan killed? (btw, Jordan was always my favorite GL until Rebirth. I don’t know why, but ever since then Hal has been nothing but annoying to me.)

You know I’m with you Legion.

Kyle Litke didn’t dig something in our 8/3 column;

The only one I disagree with on that top 5 worst decisions list is the Jason Todd one. Insanely stupid? Absolutely, but it was something that lasted all of, like, 5 pages, and now is done. They say straight out it wears off or something like that. So yeah, it’s dumb, but I have a really hard time putting that up there with the other things when it was a dumb thing that was gone in a couple pages.

Please, Kyle, forgive me for applying my tongue to my cheek. I had no idea it would be so very upsetting to you.

Neil has some thoughts on the 8/18 column;

Flash: I keep saying this, but I really think Mark Waid and Geoff Johns runs (pun, as always, intended) on the book really said all that needs to be said about Wally. While they both had different takes, they definitely let Wally go out on a high note after 10+ years of great stories (I dropped the last title after “Rogue’s War” and like to ignore that other issues came out, since #225 really would have been a great end to the series), not to mention the work done by Willaim Messner-Loebs and Mike Baron.

The problem being, it doesn’t leave many established heirs. I love Jay Garrick, but he’s JSA and the idea of de-aging him to fit in better with the younger heroes, well, let’s just say what happened to Alan Scott in the early to mid-90’s is good evidence of why it wouldn’t be a bad idea.

I really liked Bart as Kid Flash and I think the DCU needs a Kid Flash.

Jesse lost her powers and, except for being tapped during “Terminal Velocity” to try to try to get Bart to “wake up,” there’s no real connection between her and the mantle of the Flash.

Barry, well, any use of him would either negate his sacrifice or use Wolfman’s “man living on borrowed time” escape clause. I’d rather read about a character I believed would last for a long time, then one who obstensibly had to go back to a pre-established death at some point.

So, I guess I would have chosen Bart, with maybe one of the West twins being a Kid Flash.

The Metal Men: Their last appearance, pre-52 was in the Teen Titans Annual. They were seen helping out in Bludhaven with the rescue operations there. Tin is reported unaccounted for, after having gone into a burning building. Gold and Mercury said they were going to go after him when they were done with the rescue they were working on.

Wonder Twins:

Sadly those days are over. Now we’ve got to accept that the Wonder Twins are in fact in canon and part of “our” culture. We can no longer deny them and try to cast them out; we’ve got no choice.
Three words: Superboy Prime Punch. Two more: New Earth.

I can deny them all I want.

Primates: Per Secret Origins #40: in the 1950’s and 60’s, DC thought they had the answer to what sold comics: gorillas on the covers. Mark Waid estimates at least 200 covers with gorillas.

Incidentally, they also surmised that dinosaurs, motorcyles, fires, the color purple (meaning the actual cover, not the book or movie), covers with questions on them, and per Carmine Infantino the hero crying were all things that, when put on a cover, would sell comics.

Incidentally, this issue of Secret Origins has all of these things on the cover…Five Primates, three dinosaurs (including a pre-Barney purple dinosaur), purple smoke (one can only imagine coming from a purple fire), a book of matches–with a lit match hanging in the air, the question “Why is this chimp crying?,” which incidentally refers to Detective Chimp, who, to complete the list, is actually crying.

So there you have it, primates, according to 1950’s and 60’s DC sell comics.
But, really, are they so wrong?

In the 11/24 column I asked about favorite holiday themed comics to which Owen responded

My favourite holiday comic is Starman (I believe it’s) number 27. A heartwarming story that delved deeply into the characters, fleshing them out. Furthering Matt O’Dare’s redemption, Jack Knight’s original superhero style and The Shade’s fondness for the people of Opal City (among other things) it helped the supporting cast grow more as characters and still tell a good Jack Knight story. I love this issue.

Glen D. responded to our resurrection list in the 11/30 column

I’m terrible about predicting resurrections, but Booster Gold and Super Chief are pretty good bets.

You forgot two deaths on your list:

Judomaster I, back broken by Bane.
.01% resurrection. Already has a legacy

Neptune Perkins, eaten by King Shark.
2% because someone will forget he’s dead.

Still no sign of Super Chief, so, hopefully, with any luck, you’ll be wrong on that one.

Dhaise also has thoughts on resurrections

* Every Green Lantern killed/MIA since Emerald Twilight- Pretty much already done.

* Vulko- He’s died about 3 times at the least. Creative teams in the new Silver Age will do exactly what they did in the old one- ressurect him when they want to play with him.

*Booster Gold- While I’d be content to let him rot, 52 has already dropped the hint that ‘Rip Hunter is an alias’. Hi Booster.

*Ra’s Ah Ghul- Pretty much counting the minutes on this one.

*Superboy- Cmon, the company that stripmined ‘A Death in the Family’ is going to leave Connor in the ground after the lawsuit gets untangled OR superman hits public domain status? riiiiight. Shoo in.

*Professor Zoom. The first one will be back, in order to better tie Bart into Barry’s past without using the existing rogues since ‘they just did that angle with Wally (20 years ago)’.

* Technocrat, Breach and Looker all get free passes out of heaven. In the year of grisly, on panel dismemberments and shock deaths for the kiddies, none of these characters got an on panel corpse? Seems odd to exclude them unless something was afoot, right?

*The Question- Sure, the brain trust in 52 have been setting him up to be replaced for about 25 weeks now, but all it will ever take is the next generation of fanboy turned writer to bring him back a la johns/ross/winick. Montoya won’t last 2 years as his successor.

*Ronnie Raymond- This will happen. His ‘death’ pretty much turned him into an energy being which is currently dissapted, he’s already been seen his death anyways. Im guessing Stein and Jason set him up with a new body.
See: The Question.

*Sue Dibny- If they were going to kill Ralph, they probably would have given us a 5 page reveal spread out across 4 issues of 52 of his corpse decomposing in real time if they were going to actually do it, and there has been a glaring lack of romantic subplots to fill the void for Mr. Dibny. Sue’s coming back eventually.

Resurrection Man- Because he has to become the greatest tactical mind ever to join the Justice League.

Gunfire 1,000,000- to show adrian how it’s done.

GUNFIRE!!!!

Sorry, I know you said other stuff, but you ended your letter with a Gunfire mention and now I’ve completed forgotten everything else you were saying.

Glen D. had some feedback for the 12/7 column

Gotta tell ya buddy, I’m a little disappointed in your response to the Juan Santiago question. Usually you and Tim are deep thinkers, but on this one, all you had to offer was the usual conventional wisdom.

I think the problem is that DC wants to give its customers what they want, and for whatever reason, they think their customers want women in refrigerators. I’ve heard they have sales figures to back them up.

On the other hand, I’m not sure that DC puts women characters in jeopardy any more than the Lifetime channel does. No one complains about this because it is a network run by and for women, but that does that make it right? Shouldn’t people be up in arms about all that programming? I’m fairly sure a lot more people watch Lifetime than read DC comics. Why the double standard?

I’m not sure that drafting a contingent of woman writers would change things either. Many many people thought Devon Grayson was a man, so apparently, they didn’t see any difference in writing. Besides, a large minority of writers of romance novels are men, and no one knows they are men until they are told. Didn’t Simon and Kirby invent romance comics, an entire genre of comics marketed towards girls?

Perhaps, but the Lifetime is terrible, terrible tripe. Let’s aim higher, eh?

Besides, more oft than not, these Lifetime tales end with women triumphing over bad, bad men. Not to say that don’t suffer horribly to get to that point, but it is usually their victory, not some male sweeping in to save them.

And yes, women writers, in and of themselves, are not a solution. But in a male dominated industry, it cannot hurt to have a few more ladies in the room, can it?

The 12/11 column asked was future projects folks were looking forward to, Glen D. offered the following

Looking forward to The Monster Society, The next Sam Noir mini, and the Spider Anthology, and that’s about all right now.

Dhaise answered the 12/22 query about the best issue of the year

Manhunter 24. Kate puts the fear of god into someone who doesn’t mind eating Grundy chili or mouthing off to Vandal Savage. For two years in the DCU, nobody has managed to take that sawed off midget off his game one time- except Manhunter.

That was a great issue, wasn’t it? When’s the book coming back again? July 2007?! Huh…must have missed it.

Dhaise also shared his thoughts on the worst thing related to comics (from the 1/4/07 column)

52. For such an ambitious book to fall so short on a repeated basis disheartens me. I wanted to be all over this book, and instead it’s become the poster child for everything wrong with comic books (to me) except shipping delays. Decompressed stories, nonsensical cast rotation, forced legacies, shock deaths, nonsensical heel turns, and wasted recap pages, the big three (which are really the big two and ‘sort of important’ wonder woman) being forced into a book supposedly about what happens to the world when they go ‘missing’, and the return of old characters just to bump them off…..so much for the ‘brightening of the DCU’.

You and I tend to agree on a lot of things in comics, Dhaise, but I can’t follow you on this one. I had my disappointments on 52, to be sure, but overall, I did enjoy it. Your criticisms aren’t wrong per se (especially ones like wasted recaps) but they didn’t bring me down nearly as much as they did you.

Neil had some thoughts on the same column;

Nightwing: I’ve never been a fan of Dick. I was too young to have read stories about him being Robin, and when I first started reading comics, I wasn’t big into Batman or Titans. That being said, I think the “Dick’s Tour of the DCU” would have been an interesting angle. It doesn’t have to be about soul searching, but, rather, a recognition that he’s been many places as a Titan, and that maybe Gotham or “Gotham’s sister city” isn’t where he really belonged.

But, I don’t see him in Opal or Keystone either. Maybe San Francisco, which would add the bonus storyline of him being close to the Teen Titans, but not wanting to become too involved with them, out of respect for Tim. Besides, other than being based in San Fran, and helping out with Alcatraz, it’s not like the Titans really have much to do with the city itself.

Superman Writers:

Waid immediately popped into my head. Like Tim said, he can be hit or miss, but, usually, starting out on a book, he fires on all cylinders. I think his biggest problem is not knowing when to move on (see Flash, which was in a slump for a while, revitalized by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar for a year, then “Chain Lightning” and Wallace West…the storylines that turned me off the title for a while).

Though I don’t agree with a lot of the changes brought on by Birthright, I do have to say, Waid had a great grip on the characters. And his four part story (I believe aided by Tom Peyer) in the mid-90’s, involving Brainiac taking over Superman’s body was one of my favorite Superman stories from the mid-90’s.

I loved Stuart Moore’s run on Firestorm as he plotted, planned, and researched the character to make a tight run, where things that he put into his first issues paid off later on. I think Mr. Moore is on the verge of breaking into the “big time” up there with the caliber of Waid, Johns, Morrison, Millar, Bendis, etc. Superman could be the book that would propel him to that status.

With both of the above gentlemen, you’d also get the bonus of two current comic writers who seem capable of putting some of the sci-fi elements back into comics. This current trend of honoring the Silver Age harkens back to days when comics were very heavily sci-fi inspired. But, at the same time, both are grounded enough (Stuart’s father was a nuclear physicist for crying out loud) to not make it as silly as the Silver Age tended to get.

Is it cheating to say Grant Morrison on an in-continuity Superman book? Surely All-Star Superman and JLA show he can handle the character. What about Mark Millar then?

What was the worst comic related thing about 2006? DC-wise at least, not living up to the full potential of OYL. Several books benefitted from the jump, others could have, if they only could reference events in 52, still others just stunk. Most notably, they dropped the ball on Flash, replacing a consistent title, with a mediocre, at best one. Hopefully the new writer will turn things around.

But they also stumbled with JSA. I re-read the arc recently, and while it’s better than I remembered, it was still a poor, poor ending to a title that shouldn’t have ended (alas, no JSA #100). DC redeemed themselves with a kick-ass new title, but imagine if March gave us Justice Society of America #1…

I’m sure there are other examples, but there was so much potential, which even on the better OYL titles is fading fast.

Here’s Glen D’s feedback from the 1/18 column

The project I’ve been waiting for forever is Firestorm: Dark Corona.

Other pointless death include Judomaster (you probably knew I’d say that) and Neptune Perkins.

I liked the first Amalgam fifth week event, but the only one in the second wave worth reading was Iron Lantern. I also liked Silver Age more than you, I guess. The best event was The Justice Society Returns. I didn’t get the JL? because the Leagues I wanted to read about, Flash’s Justice League of Adventure and Green Lantern’s League whose name I forgot didn’t get books. You forgot JLApe.

If only I could, Glen, if only.

Also…what the heck is Dark Corona?

Adam also had something to add from after reading the same column

Ironically enough, I read this edition of Who’s Who the day after I re-read issue 13 of J’onn’s solo title. In it, J’onn is asked by some princess of Saturn if he ever got intimate with a human, in an effort to hit on him (and she was supposed to be engaged to Jemm, Son of Saturn at the time!). J’onn basically brushed her off, and in doing so said there was no way he could ever be as close to a human as he could to a Martian, so it was basically a waste of his time. I don’t know how much of the Ostrander/Mandrake series is still canonical, but if any of it is, I guess there’s your answer to J’onn’s sexuality right there.
Hope that answers the question.

And David P. pointed out an error on my part

Just wanted to point out an error in your excellent Who’s who in the DCU regarding the Clock King.

Clock King – I always tease JLI fans for their whining, but now I’m getting into my whining mode. I loved the Justice League of Antarctica. It was hilarious. I also loved Clock King’s appearance in Chase. Yet the man was devoured by ants in the most recent Suicide Squad title. He deserved better than that.

He didn’t die by death by ants Bolt and a few new characters did (Bolt got better though)

Clock King and the rest of JLAnt (except for Major Disaster and Cluemaster though he did look very dead in the issue) died in issue 1 blown to bits by exploding cloned babies (yes exploding cloned babies)

And Neil had some thoughts as well

Fifth Week Events:

I was actually disappointed with Girlfrenzy: The Mist, it was sub-par, in my opinion.

New Year’s Evil: Gog and Prometheus: Actually related to their respective titles in a meaningful way. Prometheus introduced the aforementioned character, who then went on to test the newly reformed Post-“Rock of Ages” JLA. Gog set up The Kingdom and bridged the gap between Kingdom Come and The Kingdom.

Unlike Tim, I liked Amalgam. Spider-boy was awesome.

Sins of Youth was great, classic Peter David humor and the other writers really seemed (for the most part) to have fun with the concept. Funny to look back on the one with Bart being the older, more responsible Flash and Wally reverting to Kid Flash.

True story: I ordered The Last Will and Testament of Hal Jordan from Amazon a few years ago. They sent me Circle of Fire. I took advantage of that gaffe and read the book. Despite the Firestorm story, which is why I was interested in the event in the first case, I thought it was pretty boring overall, so I returned it and got The Last Will and Testament of Hal Jordan and everything was right with the universe.

Power Surge was great. Tim, I suggest you read it and Power Company. Both Busiek and Grummet were on the top of their game with that series.

J’onn G’ay?

I don’t claim to be an expert on the guy, but has he ever had a series romantic relationship? He still seems to be carrying a torch (bad pun, I know) for his wife. I’d think that he’d first have to get over that before he thought about being in a relationship, regardless of the gender of the other person.

Projects that haven’t come out yet

Well, Jeff Smith’s Shazam series is solicited and advertised for next month. I’ve been waiting for close to four years for this one!

Spider boy was a lot of things. Awesome was not one of them.

Derek K felt I left something out of the 1/24 column

First, there’s what I would call the “Access” crossovers. I believe there were three of these mini-series, and they crossed over the DCU and MU. These were related to the DC vs. Marvel mini- that led to the Amalgam books, and were linked in their own continuity by a character named Access that could travel between both universes. If I’m remembering my comics right (I’d have to get to digging through my back issues to be sure), there was a Green Lantern/Silver Surfer one-shot that hit first that, as a one- or two-page throwaway somehow alluded to the DC vs. Marvel comics and the Access character. Each following mini-series referenced the previous installments, which led to these crossovers having their own unqiue continuities, which technically bled into the DCU because Access as a character did appear in an issue of Green Lantern at one point. Again, I’m relying on memory here, but I remember Access showing up in Kyle’s apartment to ask for his help. When Jade turns him away because Kyle was elsewhere, Access mutters something about getting “the silver guy with the surfboard” and disappears. (Maybe Superboy’s punch erased Access from the DCU . . . )

The second crossover that did have a lasting impact (pretty much) on one of the universes was the Devil’s Reign crossover between Marvel and Top Cow. In it, Mephisto discovers the Top Cow universe and a few select heroes from both Top Cow and Marvel (Ballistic, Psylocke, Ghost Rider, Wolverine, etc.) team up to stop him. Over the course of the story, Mephisto (again, relying on memory) seduces Cyberforce’s Heatwave and turns him to the side of evil, but at the end of the story, Heatwave turns on Mephisto, sacrificing himself for the greater good. Heatwave’s death was permanent and was reflected in the Cyberforce book throughout the rest of its run as an on-going book. (Heatwave’s silly resurrection and return are a completely different story, although Ron Marz was the writer behind the most recent Cyberforce mini which featured the return of Heatwave and he was the writer of the Silver Surfer/Green Lantern comic I mentioned earlier . . . )

Glen D has some comments about the 2/1 column;

I’ve no idea what the most evil act in the DCU would be. There’s a lot to choose from. The rain of super heroes in 52 is the most recent that comes to mind.

As to rogue’s galleries, Nightwing’s rogues keep being killed off for very little reason. You’d have to be a CPA to keep up with the death rate. Hawkman really needs one, but Hath Set is pretty much a gallery unto himself. DC hasn’t used older Green Arrow villains like Red Dart and Bullseye in years, but Ollie’s greatest enemy is himself. Elongated Man, Plastic Man and the Atom aren’t overly encumbered with rogues either.

Dhaise has some more evil acts;

Emerald Twilight – Irredeemable evil. The grave was too good for Jordan. Spirit of Redemption my #$%$#@#.

Stephanie Brown’s torture- There were a million different ways to sideline Steph without dragging her torture via power drill on for 10 issues.

Stephanie Browns murder- The Leslie Thompkins reveal pretty much destroyed the only paragon of virtue in the Batverse for an empty gesture she knew wouldn’t work.

Eclipso’s Siege- #13 was a blood bath which laid waste to ‘not tier 1’ characters just to illustrate how badass and unstoppable Eclipso was. Then the Spectre one shots him in 5 issues, leading me to wonder when Vince McMahon started booking in the DCU.

Superboy Prime kicking Krypto- you have to be a real asshole to kick a kid’s dog.

The Order of St Dumas conditions Azrael- Speaking of which, an entire religious order brainwashes a kid from birth to assassinate any members of their own church who fall out of favor- and they’ve been doing it for centuries. Nice.

The enhanced charisma program- REBELS. Nothing like some brainwashing and propaganda from a newborn infant to further a space-reich.

Nalydpsycho gave his two cents on things of an evil nature;

Tim, you forgot Captain America’s greatest enemy, Baron Zemo.

Blockbuster’s destruction of Nightwing’s life was pretty freaking evil.

Lex killing a man to frame Clark Kent to get him to spy on Superman (Unauthorized Bio…) was nasty.

Blackfire selling her entire species out to alien walords to get back at her sister.

While maybe not purely evil, Riddler turning the “Who is Batman?” riddle back at Batman with “Who is Hush?” was freaking bad ass.

Not DCU, but, Lono just needs to be mentioned.

And, in my head, Scarecrow exploiting Batman’s fear of love, Lex Luthor forcing Superman’s retirement, The Rogues denying The Flash of his humanity and The Philospher Crook turning the Suicide Squad against Plastic Man are all downright nasty evil.

But none will happen unless I’m given free reign by DC editors.

Mathan and I are on the case. We’ll see what we can do about that free reign thing.

Jeb thinks that we neglected some rogues in the same column

I think you guys definitely overlooked Daredevil’s gallery of rogues. Consider that it includes not only Kingpin and Bullseye, but also (at various points) three of the deadliest women in the Marvel U–Elektra, Typhoid Mary, and Echo. Add stone killers like Mister Hyde, Mr. Fear, Gladiator, and the Owl and one of the most visually distinct jobber villains ever conceived in Stiltman and it’s a pretty well-rounded and unique list of enemies.

And if they were generally used well, I’d totally agree. But…not so much.

Alright, that’s what you had to say (with a little of me, for good measure). Come back next for what we’ve got to say. It’ll be fun… I promise.