Marvel-ous

So, Nightwing is in Lego Batman 8) His hair is very Goku-esque, but I'm just glad he's in it!

Was playing WoW after I got home, but lost interest after the first couple of battlegrounds. Went to quest, but I was pretty much the only person on (no Marc, Sean, or John...), and it was pretty dull...

SO, decided to watch Fantastic Four (animated series, thank you, not that horrific movie) and turn on Aim. Not chatting, but you never know, might get a message if I leave it on long enough 8O

Anyway, about F4... First off, Chris Yost is involved. 8| ... That scares me.

For those not in the know, Yost-san has a habit of killing characters. At this very moment, he's working on the Young Avengers crossover with Runaways.... And the entire fandom is scared that he's gonna kill one of the Young Avengers. The creator of Runaways have already killed their own people, so that's not as much of a worry. But if they kill Billy... Tommy... Teddy... Hell, if they kill ANY of the Young Avengers (Cassie doesn't count at the moment because she's part of the Initiative, not the YAs), I will be just as upset as everyone else...

Secondly, the art is a little... weird. The characters all have arched down eyebrows, so they always look angry, or smirky. It's kinda hard to get used to... If I watch enough episodes, though, I think I'll get used to it.

However! They have the ever-present bickering between Johnny and Ben. There's a lot of UST between the characters anyway... Sure Johnny is a known 'player' but... those are always the types of characters that are covering something up >_> ANYHOO, during Civil War, Johnny was attacked and put in the hospital (cause he wouldn't fight back against normal people). Ben got upset and ran away... But came back because he felt bad about abandoning Johnny 8| ... Not that he wanted to rejoin the team, but because he left Johnny. ... My brain may be wired in a weird way, but that's as obvious as Tony Stark and Steve Rogers LIVING TOGETHER FOR YEARS. HELLO.

In honor of Teddy, I skipped the first couple of episodes, and went right to My Neighbor Is a Skrull. Lol, exciting 8)

EDIT: Lol, as much as Billy hates Skrull, I think even he would get a kick out of the skrull in this. "Oh, that Benjamin Grimm. He's such a nice young man - by the way, could you tell me exactly what his skin density is, and what his upper body strength limits are? ^o^" .... LOL SO SUBTLE IN THEIR INFO GATHERING

EDIT 2: ... Maybe I'm outta the loop, but... I don't recognize the blind chick Alisha 8| And, uhm, how can she sculpt Ben if she's blind?? While maybe vaguely plausible, it's extraordinarily unlikely, right? RIGHT?

... In better news, Johnny's all "My powers are the best thing that happened to me; but Ben..." then he hesitates, and almost as an after thought to save face, says "....he got real ugly. So if Reed did this on purpose, how can we trust him" ... I'm sure you can tell what I was thinking~

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Even though I was off today, went in to pick up my copy of Warriors Orochi 2. Simply put, so far, I'm happy with it!

It's essentially a direct sequel to the first one, and this time, people actually seem to realize that they're not all from the same place. In the previous game, the only people I saw question anything were Jiang Wei and Sun Ce. ... And everyone else just went on their merry way, lol.

In this one, though, there's more than just the story modes and free play (still no Japanese track... maybe I'll start flooding Koei with 'put Japanese track in' opinion cards. Honestly, they can do like the Naruto game did, and offer a download off of Xbox Live...). One such mode is called Tag Team survival mode, and it's essentially a fighter (a la Soul Calibur and Virtua Fighter). It's pretty fun cause you can pick all the characters you want once they're unlocked, and I have so many favorites to choose from 8)

The graphics are pretty, but I'm having a bit of an issue with the camera... It stays stuck above their heads, about 7 feet back, looking down at an angle at the character you're playing. I feel like I'm about to dive into the ground.

In other news, my Nightwing comics came in 8| Nightwing: The Lost Year, and Nightwing: Renegade. ... I'm a LITTLE confused because The Lost Year has Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson ... in a couple? Firstly, Barbara Gordon is a lesbian. I'm serious - that's not just me preferring Dick with... well, Bruce, Tim, or Roy... Anyone remember that show on the WB about the girl superhero team named after birds? Birds of Prey I think? She was the woman in the wheelchair... the entire team was lesbians, and some even hated men 8|; Secondly, even if she wasn't a lesbian, Dick was only attracted to her because she was a red-head (why, when he can have Roy instead!)... She shot him down cold 8|

I seem to recall when she tried to blackmail Batman and (the first) Robin into letting her be her own vigilante, threatening to reveal their identities to the world. While Robin was all Ohnoes!, Batman simply said "You're Barbara Gordon" ... haha, way to even the odds, Bruce. In any case, that scenario in and of itself would turn someone as much like Bruce as Dick is...

The art in both are not bad... Too bad none of the artists make Dick as handsome/cute as he's supposed to be. 8| But that's just a personal complaint...

Onto WoW