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D-Man is propably the lamest mentioned so far.

Green Arrow spent the first half of his life as a Batman ripoff. Basically, Oliver Queen was a rich industrialite who was shipwrecked on an island where out of necessity he honed his archery skills (which he abandoned after being too petrified to shoot an elephant that wound up goreing his parents to death while they were on a safari). When he returned to Star City, he caught the super hero bug after stopping a pickpocket with a bow and arrow. Basically everything Batman did, he did. Arrowcave, arrowmobile, younger version in sidekick form. Fast foward to the mid/late 1970s, Arrow loses his fortune and business and becomes a hardcore liberal activist, going from city to city in stealth and fighting injustice and crime. He catches up with Green Lantern, whom he calls out as being out of touch with the world and the two go cross country fighting for the common man. These stories, by Denny ONeil and Art Adams are highly reccommended. All the while he's out helping people, he fails to help out his own former sidekick Speedy is now a heroin addict. Arrow and Lantern splits, and he spends the 80s - mid 90s as a vigilante, being chased by the government and others for becoming totally like Robin Hood, targeting corrupt businesses and government officials. Green Arrow winds up getting killed in an explosion in a plane over Metropolis. His son, Connor Hawke, assumes the mantle of the Green Arrow out of respect for the father he never knew. The original Green Arrow gets resurrected by Parallax (Hal Jordan) and fights to get his soul/memory back in the only good comic book project Kevin Smith has been involved with, Quiver. Green Arrow now spends his time continuing his fight against oppression, catching up with Speedy (who cleaned up and is now called Arsenal), getting to know his son Connor, and trying to fix all the things he did wrong in his life, like being a total womanizer. Green Arrow is basically a combination of Batman and Robin Hood. He's not a great A-list hero like Spider-Man and Batman, but anything but lame. I used to think Hawkman was lame, but the current series makes sense of hir origin in a cool way. Basically there was this Egyptian prince Khufu and his lover Chayra were killed and cursed by an evil priest that made them immortal via being in a cycle of being killed and reborn forever. The Hawk part comes from Thangarian Nth metal which can fly that the priest killed them over. As for a lame character, I'd have to say Aquaman.

Piper would be great as a Raw commentater. Have him and JR do the first hour, and then sub in the King. Actually, they'd be an entertaining three man combo.

I will defend the honor of Green Arrow and Hawkman. but after dinner. Very quickly, I'd just like to give a definition to the casual comic book reader that currently exists: • Don't necessarily care about back issues and purchasing everything. • Actively seek out Marvel's webcomics instead of getting a phyiscal copy. • More willing to pick up a trade at a bookstore or from the library. • Occasionaly pick up related merch. • Keep up to date with trends and such thanks to Wizard and the net.

Supes has a greast set of villains, but he usually gets stuck with crappy ones.

At Wizard World East, they said that they've been making plans for a new What-If series. Check out Spider-Man's Tangled Web if you like the What If ish style stories.

I totally agree with you. The only reason MJ was able to beat off Stock and Malone was because he was surrounded by better losers than they were. They got the worst of the worst.

DC started out in the late thirties, and was the first to publish super-hero comics: SUPERMAN in ACTION COMICS, THE BAT-MAN in DETECTIVE COMICS, and THE SANDMAN in ADVENTURE COMICS. But they weren't the only ones taking a shot at the Super Hero game. Captain Marvel, Plastic Man, Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, and quite a few others started out as characters from other companies, that were bought up by DC when the comics industry was getting lean. When these chaarcters were bought, to preserve continuity, they were just kept in their own little world. Also, comics writers came up with the concept of Earth 2 and other Earths to do "What If?" type stories, and someone decided that the DC Universe needed to be streamlined. Hence, CRISIS. Earth 2 was the home to the Justice Society of America and all the Golden Age versions characters like the Alan Scott Green Lantern. Their continuity problems were caused by continually having characters going back and forth.

I'd like an assessment as well.

This is a great list and I can't way to see it's conclusion. I do see a ridiculous amount of Black Sabbath love.

Actually, that's called Misfits 25 (its the ongoing anniversary tour lineup).

Good luck to Brock. I wonder how well he'll do...

Nothign says "Peace, love and togetherness" like my Saviour of Metal and yours, Devin Townsend belting out "Oh My Fucking God", "Rape Song", and "Far Beyond Metal." Still, I'd pay to see it. Not only for evy Devy, but to see all the kids looking around wondering who this balding mad genius is. I could just imagine seeing him screaming and being brutal to a totally unaware crowd being led to Devy's powerful words like a moth to a flame. Oh yeah, he'd convert hundreds of thousands of the kids over to the darkside, and metal would rule all once again with an iron fist. All thanks to Hevy Devy. I think I should redo myschedule to have SYL start promptly at 10am. It would be amazing to hear Devy screaming "wakeup you dirty motherfuckers!" and start belting out "Detox".

Maybe he'll be Eugene's new mentor.

Nothign says "Peace, love and togetherness" like my Saviour of Metal and yours, Devin Townsend belting out "Oh My Fucking God", "Rape Song", and "Far Beyond Metal." Still, I'd pay to see it. Not only for evy Devy, but to see all the kids looking around wondering who this balding mad genius is. I could just imagine seeing him screaming and being brutal to a totally unaware crowd being led to Devy's powerful words like a moth to a flame.

I would love an assesment.

This is still a REALLY good list. The only thing I complain about is the two Dimmu albums being included. I'm waiting to see the top 100.

You also have to be careful because if you are not a student you'll propably get kicked off your parents' health insurance policy and thats $400 a month. If your not sure, go to a community/junior college. If you find a job that you are gaga about that is local, try your fist semester as a part time student.

I'd just do one stage for everyone. Here's my line up where each band gets 90 mins. The bands on Fri/Sat at midnight are more along the lines of DJ's spinning stuff.: Day 1 10 am: Apocalyptica 12 pm: Misfits-25th Anniversary (Jerry/Dez/Marky) 2 pm: KMFDM 4 pm: The Cure 6 pm: Snoop Dogg 8 pm: The Dead 10 pm: Jane's Addiction 12 pm: Chemical Brothers Day 2 10 am: Duran Duran 12 pm: Strapping Young Lad 2 pm: Old Dirty Bastard and friends... 4 pm: Andrew W.K. 6 pm: Bjork 8 pm: Outkast 10 pm: Pearl Jam 12 pm: Fatboy Slim Day 3 10 am: Candiria 12 pm: Jurassic 5 2 pm: Rollins Band 4 pm: Primus with Buckethead 6 pm: George Clinton & the P Funk All Stars 8 pm: The Roots 10 pm: Beastie Boys

Kraven is pretty freaking deep as well. Born to a former aristocratic family he escaped the USSR to become one of the best big game hunters in the world. Eventually he became so consumed with proving to the world that he was THE greatest that he set his sites on Spider-Man. Read Kraven's Last Hunt...it is amazing. Basically Kraven finally beats Spidey, buries him allive and than takes the identity of Spidey to prove that he was/is better and is able to stop the one villain Spidey couldn't (up to that time) Vermin. Spidey gets out of his tomb and takes out Kraven, and then goes on to capture Vermin all by himself. Kraven couldn't live knowing that Spidey was still better than him and killed himself. Kraven's son Vladimir later on went after Spidey, and died trying (great concept, but poor execution due to happening during the Clone Saga). His other bastard son Aloysha was also obsessed with hunting Spidey, but more so because he felt it would be a way to connect to his father. He succeeded in hunting Spidey as well, but decided to let him go because killing him would be something that his father wanted. Green Goblin is also an amazing villailn, as well.

I think part of that goes more along the lines of the "with great power..." mantra of Spidey. He is just as powerful as them and could be using his abilities to further his own interests.

I do have to say that your criticism is more entertaining.

Some very nice choices that I wouldn't have thought of. I was suprised to see that you didn't have Kiss on the line up! I'll do mine later.

I would also like to find out what I am imagined to look like.

Also it's more natural for the evil guys to want revenge. The good guys just want to avenge. Return was also better suited for VI, as Vader thought Luke was dead/left him for dead.