The Marvel Universe - Take It Or Leave It
I can't recall my first comic book, but it was possibly "Justice League of America" or "Superman Family, but I do know I started picking up Spider-Man, Thor and the Hulk. To me, DC Comics was about creating characters that were larger than life, but Marvel was about creating stories about heroes in the real world. I loved Marvel Comics; I think my number of Marvel Comics more than trumps the number of DC Comics I own. Marvel has created some awesome story-lines from "Attack on the Avengers Mansion" to "Siege on Mount Olympus" and the "Iron Man Wars," but in the last few years, I think they're scraping the bottom of the toilet on ideas. Even ignoring this current "Secret Wars" farce (an incredibly waste of paper on a rip-off of the "Crisis …
Wikipedia as a Research Tool
To this day, I often find it incomprehensive that people think the research on the Wikipedia is infallible. I'm a big fan of mythology; I have fifty-five books on the subject, and every time I go to the used bookstore, I sometimes buy one or two more for my collection. These are books by scholars, professors, historians, experts who have done research in the field, and yet, it boggles the mind when people take research from the Wikipedia that was likely posted by college students picking and choosing what they thought was important to post to the Wikipedia. I find the material on the site often erroneous, frequently incomplete and often badly formatted, and I'm not the only one who feels this way. When I was doing research on the Civil War…
Gods in the MU
I take it this is sort of a open message post for everyone. Okay, in case some of you hadn't noticed, I was starting a lot of the bios for those gods to appear in the MU, bios I would finish later as I caught up, but two things have hampered that: one, several of those bios have been shrunk down, preventing updates, two: I've been told that real world mythology does not apply in the MU (and if you've seen the skewering and artistic license in the handbooks, you'll know what I mean). Therefore, I have no idea what applies and what doesn't apply anymore. If anyone wants to pick up where I left off by moving what probably works from my site to the database, go for it! Thor2000 17:39, 10 February 2009 (UTC)