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Thanos, after beating everyone abandoned his body and the gauntlet and replaced Eternity as the embodiment of the Universe. A horribly burned and supposedly mindless but in reality not mindless Nebula snatched the Gauntlet from Thanos's grasp and used it to not only restore her body but undo the carnage Thanos inflicted upon the universe. Adam Warlock then went into the soul gem and merged with the power of the gauntlet and teleported it off of Nebula's hand and onto his own. Thanos then tried to blow himself up but was saved by Warlock and sent to an uninhabited world to live out his remaining life.

HHH going to SD might happen, especially if they do the big Face Turn. If he returns as a face on Raw, he will bomb horribly as the fans will reject him and cheer his opponents. If he goes to SD, he can get his bitch to put in cheers for him in post-editting.

As the capacity of the Internet increased, so did Keith's online presence. He went on to found Rantsylvania with one of the most controversial figure in the IWC, Sean Shannon, former leader of the nWWWo. Shannon gained a reputation as being dodgy, especially during a high-profile "flame" war with fellow 411 writer Chris Hyatte. Hyatte took great pleasure in exposing Shannon as a faker - Shannon claimed on many occasions to be an "insider", and claimed to possess a neurological disease in order to avoid a tricky situation that most writers accept was fabricated. JC: How did you guys decide to launch Rantsylvania, and what were your ambitions? SK: The deal with RS.com is this - I've had a web page almost as long as the web has been around, because I started Scott-Land! using space on the U of Alberta servers way back in the infancy of the WWW. Back then it was a text page, browsed with Lynx, featuring me bitching about work or whatever. Then I moved to Geocities when I got kicked off the University servers because of not being a student there and all, and decided to use the page to begin archiving my TV and PPV rants, which admittedly were in their infancy at that point. I think I had like 10 Thunder rants and 5 PPV rants to start with. For some reason, Scott-Land! became something of an underground sensation amongst the online wrestling fans, and I remember getting all excited because the page was finally about to record the 100,000th hit, which is funny now because I usually do that off one or two rants. Now, this was back before the entire advertising structure crashed and burned, so naturally Sean Shannon (a fan of the website) saw an opportunity to go dot.com (his original goal was just to redesign my god-awful HTML) and make a few bucks. Rantsylvania.com officially launched in September 1999, and the goal was to do a site like Wrestlemaniacs, but without the newly corporate sponsorship. Sean loaded it up with his friends and started paying them to do news updates and the like. My goals were actually quite different than his - I was never interested in the money aspect of it. Near the end of the transition period between Scott-Land! and RS.com, I started this thing where readers could submit their own reviews of stuff, mainly because I'm so damn lazy about updating my own page and wanted easy content, but also because I wanted to get some of my very talented readers out there as writers. I ended up launching the Internet careers of some of the people currently inhabiting the web world, like Bob Morris and Eric Szulczewski. Anyway, THAT was my main goal with the site - to provide the forum for new writers to have their voice. I personally hated the news updates and always have, but really my thing has always been delivering content and leaving the experts to run the sites. The only real stated goal Sean had was to make a profit. I just enjoy writing and liked the egofuck of seeing my audience grow rapidly. JC: What's your take on Sean? It's stated that his departure was rather acrimonious. What's your take on that, and on Shannon's ostracism by and large from the IWC after (amongst other things) Hyatte flamed him to shreds for alleged untruthfulness? What do you believe happened there? SK: We always suspected Sean was a bit of a fruitcake, but it's only recently that it's come out just how MUCH of a fruitcake he really is. Basically, in November of 2000, Sean submitted his resignation as webmaster due to the stress of the job and whatever personal paranoia was eating at him at the time. By that point, we were doing so much business, hitwise, that we had switched to an expensive dedicated server because we had been kicked off our previous one, and the money had dried up completely. I didn't realize how completely it had dried up until I received a bill for nearly $2000 US from Communitech, as he had neglected to pay them and transferred everything into my name without informing me. Funny story - the same night Sean resigned and transferred everything to me, my apartment burned down. God said "Ha," and all that. JC: How did the concept of Rantsylvania evolve into thesmarks? SK: It didn't evolve so much as Sean hijacked the domain name in April of 2001. I had hired Jeremy Botter as the new webmaster, and that was also an interesting experience because Jeremy had lots of big plans and ambitions for the site, but none of them were ever implemented. In retrospect, I should have gotten Don Becker to run the site from day one, but hindsight is 20/20. Anyway, since I neither knew nor cared about the technical aspects of actually running a website, I just let Sean handle everything, which included him registering the RS.com domain name in his name. By this time the three of us running the site (Don, Jeremy and myself) had essentially decided that Rantsylvania as a concept had run its course and it was time to overhaul the site to a self-posting set-up ala Slashdot. And at the same time, all the stuff about Sean's behaviour and descent into goofiness got out via RS.com, and his feeling was that he didn't need to be paying for the domain name of a site that was trashing him, so he took it back and pointed it to his own site. We were on the verge of changing anyway, but our goal was more July 2001, and this forced us to move up to April. So rather than a "me-oriented" site like RS.com was, the idea was to build around a stable of writers, also known as The Smarks. The plan here would be more equality, more interactive features, etc. Unfortunately the bandwidth bug hit us again, as we were doing in the neighbourhood of millions of pageviews per month and couldn't find a server to carry us. We eventually struck a deal with a porn host to give us a dedicated server in exchange for advertising their other sites, but after a few months with them shoddy service and frequent crashes due to viruses derailed the site and we essentially lost control of our own server. At this point the dynamic of the site was changing behind the scenes - by the end of 2001, Jeremy was webmaster in name only, having committed most of his time to Burst or whatever else he was doing, and I was doing most of the day-to-day operations on the site, with the invaluable assistance of Don Becker. And I HATE webmastering with a passion, so this was unacceptable. I have never had any interest in the technical aspects of running a web page, so what I needed was a way to maintain my content to a large audience while having zero responsibility. JC: From TheSmarks to your current home of 411wrestling. Why did TheSmarks shut down, and what was the reasoning behind the move to 411, both from the point of view of 411 and thesmarks? SK: My original move to 411 is actually unrelated to TheSmarks. We have to go onto another tangent to get there. Back in 1998, I of course joined the cast of Wrestlemaniacs, the super-site with Rick Scaia and Mike "Micasa" Samuda, initially doing columns and then taking over for John Petrie recapping the putrid WCW Thunder show. In mid-1999, CBS Sportsline bought out that site and turned it into Wrestleline. After some initial controversy, I came with them doing the Thunder rants. Since I'm a media whore and suddenly was thrust into the spotlight of more hits than I'd ever received in my brief career, I decided to start doing the Retro Rants for WL in lieu of columns. They proved to be a smash hit, to say the least, and became my calling card. RS.com and TheSmarks were always considered my "solo projects", while Wrestleline was the full-time gig. After a couple of changes in the hierarchy controlling things, the WL contract was up in 2001 and renegotiated by Samuda & Scaia, and the result was that all the writers would now be paid for their work. A small sum, to be sure, but the ad market had collapsed anyway and we all knew it. CRZ left the site as a result of a dispute over this, and I took over RAW (I had been doing it for RS.com since the move to TNN in September 2000) and ran with the ball. Unfortunately, in November 2001, we were suddenly informed (without so much as a personal e-mail to us) that the site was closed and we were all out of a job. Well, as noted, while TheSmarks was doing big numbers, we couldn't expand the fan base any further without costing ourselves thousands in server costs. So really I needed a big website that would give me free reign, with plenty of bandwidth for my fan base to grow, and space to host my archives. And 411 was the perfect fit, as I began posting the RAW and PPV rants to there, and started doing Smackdown as well. After a year there, TheSmarks was getting to the point where upkeep on the site was no longer worth the effort - we were running off a private server maintained by a 14-year old tech genius and basically mirroring all my content from 411, in addition to a few key writers like the invaluable Jay Bower, the always entertaining Scotsman, and Justin Baisden's Japanese reviews. So rather than continue the redundant mirroring situation, I simply ditched TheSmarks as an autonomous website (since I have no ambitions towards being a webmaster anyway, and Widro enjoys it so much more) and became a full-time sub-section of 411. And finally this year, it was apparent that the site itself was just me, Justin and Jay, so I made the decision to kill the subsite entirely and merge with 411 full-time when the changeover to 411mania occurred. I'm much happier now with it all behind me, believe me. JC: Why do you think your rants in particular excelled where the millions of other people recapping on sites around the world haven't? What do you feel you bring to the table that others lack? SK: I think it mostly just has to do with the fact that I'm an enormously talented writer with a natural, conversational style. Many of the kids trying to do what I do fail because they simply don't know how to write and haven't written enough outside of wrestling to be able to apply any kind of real-world skill at it. I might not be on my A-game 100% of the time as far as the humor goes, but I can always put out a readable and flowing piece of writing to cover for those weeks. It's not an exact science - it took me almost 5 years to finally find a format I'm 100% comfortable with - and a lot of people don't have the kind of perseverance to hang in there and keep changing the writing style until it pays off without something that people want to read.

Interview found at http://www.nzpwi.co.nz/interviews/2003/scott.keith/ SK leaked the interivew out on CRZ's board a week ago but hasn't mentioned it in his recent Rants like he does his other interviews. Posted in two parts ------------------------ Scott Keith Internet writer and notorious "smark" Scott Keith (a.k.a "Netcop") possesses a reputation that is nearly unmatched amongst the Internet Wrestling Community. Love him or hate him, there are very few Internet writers with the skill - or balls - that Keith possesses. A veteran of the trade, Keith provides 411wrestling.com with weekly recaps for RAW, SmackDown! and, recently, NWA/TNA. These reports, known almost universally as his "Rants" have made him arguably the most influential, prolific and recognised Internet wrestling columnist ever, producing thousands of words of copy weekly that are viewed by tens of thousands of readers. However, his style (viewed by many as being unfairly harsh or overly critical) has earned him enemies as well as fans. In addition to his online work, he has produced two books to date that cover the often-strange world of "sports entertainment" - 'The Buzz on Professional Wrestling' and his latest book 'Tonight in This Very Ring: A Fan's History of Professional Wrestling' (available from Amazon here). Another book is planned for release. In this first part of a lengthy interview with the native of Canada, James Cardno covers Keith's personal history, how he broke into the Internet Wrestling Community, and how he polished his near-patented style of recapping. Part two will be released next week, and will focus on his thoughts regarding the current situation of the WWE, his books, and some hard questions from his detractors about his work. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Cardno: Scott, tell me a bit about yourself and your background. Keith's home town of Edmonton Scott Keith: Well, I'm your basic 28-year old wrestling writer who lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - home of the Oilers and winters that are colder than sleeping in a freezer. I studied at the University of Alberta for a little over two years, technically majoring in math but more interested in Computing Science and eventually just screwing around with whatever caught my fancy before dropping out in 1994. I lived in various small towns around Vancouver, British Columbia for most of my life before moving to Edmonton in 1989 and enjoying it so much that I've stayed here ever since. I have a huge (some would say obsessive) DVD collection and my goal in life is to make enough money to fund a true home theatre for myself, and have a soda fountain of my own. JC: When did your interest in wrestling really start, and how did it develop? SK: It started more by osmosis than anything - my dad was a big fan when I was little, and he watched a lot of NWA and Stampede Wrestling, although I couldn't stand the stuff. But since he controlled the TV, that's what I watched. Finally it had subconsciously soaked in so much that when my mom rented Wrestlemania 2 for my 12th birthday party, something clicked and I just became a fan. Specifically, the angle where Paul Orndorff turned on Hulk Hogan hooked me for good. I started reading Pro Wrestling Illustrated in 1987 and realized that people could make a career out of writing about wrestling, and things followed from there. JC: At what age did you first get into writing in a formalized sense? Writing, say, for an audience, with the purpose of imparting thoughts, emotions and opinions? SK: Well, I won several young authors' contests in the early stages of my life (Grades 1-3) and I've always been primarily focused on writing in terms of my means of expressing myself. There was a long time - until I was in high school - when the idea of being a writer strictly meant, to me, (doing) fiction and short stories. Unfortunately, I have the attention span of Vince Russo when it comes to sitting down and writing stuff out of thin air, so fiction was never my forte. However, once I got into high school, I discovered that I had a real gift for essays, specifically bullshitting my way through what were supposed to be researched essays. I would simply spend so much time giving my opinion on the work that the teachers would overlook my total lack of commitment to the goals of the assignment. Some might say that particular foible has carried over even today. This talent served me well in English 101 in University, where I essentially audited the course, attended maybe 1/3 of the classes, and turned in fluff pieces that were so eloquently written that I ended up with the highest score in the class regardless. I think that's where I truly realized that I could use my powers for good rather than evil. My style has always been pretty self-contained - although my natural cynicism and dry wit forms the basis for my most of my humour, the rest is kind of cribbed from a variety of sources ranging from Douglas Adams to John Petrie. Other than that, I just started writing and let the work shape itself from there. JC: What's your particular interest in the Internet as a medium? SK: I enjoy the instant gratification of the feedback, both giving and receiving, positive and negative. I can watch a show, have my thoughts immediately imparted to other fans and the promotion, receive in turn love/hate mail from those same fans and/or promotion, and use it to further shape my writing. I used to enjoy the community aspect, but corporate meddling and too many idiots have sucked that dry and I pretty much keep to myself now outside of a few close friends on my instant messaging list. It's also a great way to garner free publicity for my books. JC: Your first steps as an Internet critic per se were with RSPW. Could you tell us a bit about what it was, for those who are unaware, and what part you played in that? SK: I started with RSPW - the Usenet newsgroup rec.sport.pro-wrestling - back in 1992 while attending university and getting increasingly bored during programming sessions that stretched too long into the night. This was back before the Internet was a household word, and back before the World Wide Web even existed. I discovered RN (the primitive Unix newsreader) and on a whim, did a search for "wrestling", which provided me with my first glimpse at RSPW. Back then, it used to be quite civilized and filled with intelligent discussion from people who actually had something to say. People like Dave Scherer of 1wrestling.com were a part of it back then. Fellow RSPW user Dave Scherer I lurked for quite a while before making a few posts (as was the tradition back then) and didn't really become a 'character' until 1996. By that time, I had become interested in the process of creating subgroups, and spearheaded the creation of two such groups - rec.sport.pro-wrestling.fantasy (for discussion of so-called 'e-feds' and fantasy wrestling) and rec.sport.pro-wrestling.info (for news-only postings). In fact, I'm not sure that the people who now post to the fantasy group even know that I'm the one who wrote the charter and gained much of my early 'fame' on RSPW by getting that group going. By 1998, however, my love/hate relationship with RSPW was skewing far more towards 'hate' and I was far less active in posting outside of my reviews. You see, in 1994, the 'AOL Invasion' hit the Internet in general, as that was the first time that AOL allowed its members general access to the net. Before then, RSPW would experience some general stupidity during the summer when teenagers were home from school, but go back to normal in the fall. With the advent of AOL and similar services, the idiot patrol was there 24/7 and the group started to become a cool hangout for trolls instead of a place to talk about wrestling. Once I joined up with the Wrestlemaniacs.com crew as a sort of project of Mike Samuda, I suddenly had a larger audience who were far more intelligent readers, and my antagonistic relationship with RSPW led to a famous farewell posting on my part in 1998 (I think) where I essentially told the entire newsgroup to fuck off and die. They didn't take that too well and many from that era still hold a grudge against me for that to this day. They are, of course, the only ones on the planet who care. I was a little too late to be considered part of the 'golden age' of RSPW (although I'm often counted as a part of it by those who came later), and my run there lasted from 1992-1998, and was so completely eclipsed by the stuff I did on the web later that I'm rarely even associated with the group anymore. Although they're still obsessed with me. As a sidenote, in late 1998 I was so desperately sick of the situation on the newsgroup and willing to do anything to try to contribute something positive back that I rewrote the years-out-of-date FAQ for the group, increasing it in size from 10 pages to nearly 200. It became a pretty defining achievement for me and a work I was very proud of, which is partly why I use "RSPWFAQ" as a username much of the time. JC: You earned the moniker Netcop quite early in your career. What's the story behind that? SK: That was during a rather small phase of my career on RSPW that ended up being the most famous. It was 1996, and general stupidity on the group was running rampant, to the point where I decided to seek inspiration from better-behaved groups (i.e., the comic-book groups) and start pro-actively defining rules of conduct for the newsgroup for those who were ignorant of how normal human beings should treat each other on a Usenet group. I wrote the "Guide to Posting to RSPW" as a gentle reminder of netiquette and the like (although phrased in very smart-ass manner, which was becoming my trademark), and then to partly vent my frustration and partly make examples out of people, I would reply to a post that was breaking netiquette and declare "Freeze, dirt bag! This is a Netcop bust!" Netcop was a common term on Usenet for people who would "police" newsgroups, and wasn't a very nice term either. People took my usage of the word to mean that *I* was called 'Netcop', and it gained a double-use with me - some called me that as an insult, some called me that because they thought it was a nickname. I chose to keep the name in order to take away the power of the insult, although after a few months it was little more than a silly gimmick to draw attention to my reviews and was dropped completely, except in tribute when I would title things "The Netcop Rant". JC: Tell us a bit about your style of recapping - what inspired the "Rant" style? One of Keith's online Rants SK: In addition to RSPW, I also frequented the comic book newsgroups, and one big name in 1996 was Dave Van Domelyn, who would post capsule reviews of the latest comics, which he called Rants. It was basically short-form, stream of consciousness reviews, and I loved the idea so much I thought I'd apply it to wrestling. By my current standards, they were terrible (they were kind of like Dave Scherer's rhetorical questions in form and style) but it was enough to get the ball rolling on developing my own style, and soon I started reviewing the occasional TV show and PPV. In 1997, I completely revamped my writing style, basing it on John Petrie's early RAW and Nitro reviews, until I had a basic syntax and form for my reviews. To test it out, I started reviewing slightly older shows (my first was either Slamboree 94 or Spring Stampede 94, I can never remember) and the idea caught fire. JC: When you write, how much of what you do would you call a gimmick? Which is to say, how much of it is 100% you, and how much is a "character" per se, or at least a style that is expected of you? SK: As people who have sat in a car with me and listened to me go off for 10 minutes at a time about road construction on the first day of summer can attest to, 99% of what's in the rants is just good old me. I don't tend to be as openly conceited and brash in real life, if only because you get punched in the mouth in the real world whereas the internet only gets you a nasty e-mail, but my friends tend to hear much of the same material (and bad jokes) while watching shows with me as readers do later on while reading me. I define the style, not vice-versa.

The ending, where everyone is alive and Nancy's drunk mom gets killed by Freddy, was Nancy's mom's nightmare scenerio crafted by Freddy when he took her into the dreaming.

<It's the specials they showed on VH1 a few years ago. Everything is stuff you can see easily (and once in while they drag them out on VH1), so I'd say no unless you get a very good deal on it - I'm saying cheapo bin - ha!> From what I've heard, it's not quite like the version that airs on VH1 from time to time, in that the DVD features the FULL performances not clips of the performances like the TV version does. <Why don't they release a SNL season set or best of (insert season)?> 1. Because it's cheaper, easier to market and to put together "Best of insert SNL cast member's name" specials 2. Clearance rights with various music and hosts would take forever. Given the hassle that Time Life goes through with their "The Muppet Show" Best of Series, Lions Gate probably sees it as a lost cause to do it 3. Too wide of a target audience for season/best of sets to work. Some fans of the show won't buy the Golden Age of the show (the first five years of SNL) and just buy episodes from the Hartman/Carvy/Meyers era onward and vice versa with buying just the first five seasons. And lets not even touch the nightmare that would be trying to sell the 1980-1986 seasons....

Sort of. Lila asked Fry to finish his opera, which ended with a crudely drawn version of Lila and Fry kissing and walking off into the sunset together.....

Lorenzo Music was the voice of Garfield for almost 20 years. He died in August of 2001. Bill Murray and Dave Coulier are the only ones I can think of that would be suitable replacements. Actually there is a third person who could do Lorenzo Music justice in regards to being the voice of Garfield: Henry Rollins. He can pull off the attitude required for the part and as seen in his spoken word monolgues can be pretty funny in terms of his delivery.

Odie and Nermal are going to be regular animals with CGI mouths attached to them to make it appear like they are talking. Garfield meanwhile will be pure CGI...

Some more definative news about the GBA port of Mario 3: 1. It will be released as Super Mario Advance 4 2. Nintendo plans to upgraded the original 8-Bit version from scratch as opposed to them simply porting the SNES Super Mario All-Stars version to the Game Boy Advance without any major changes to the game like they did with Super Mario 2/SMA1. 3. It will be the first major game release by Nintendo for the GBA to make HEAVY use the E-Card Reader. 4. One of the major rumors about the game is that Nintendo will be eleminating the ability to get power-ups and the Super-Suit power-up through-out the game via Toad Houses, Hammer Brothers, and treasure chests and instead will require you to buy packs of E-Reader cards and scanning them into the game in order to get power ups and Super-Suit power-ups.

Logic dictates that the WWE can't totally unbalance the shows to the point of obsurdity. Hence why RVD and Jericho can't be traded off to SD for peices of shit like UT or Rikishi or Albert. The WWE has realized that they need to keep at least SOME of the workrate guys on Raw to keep people watching and hoping that it gets better....

Update about Adult Swim DVDs: When the announcement for the AS DVDs came out it was stated that, not counting Space Ghost C2C, only shows that had 24 episodes would get a DVD release. This was the rational used by Cartoon Network when they announced that Aqua Teen Hunger Force would be the first non-SGC2C release on DVD for the Adult Swim line as ATHF has just over 24 episodes done for the series. They also said that Sea Lab would be in the second wave of releases when it crosses the 24 episode mark this fall. However since they released the specs for the ATHF DVD, it now appears that only 16 episodes are going to be included onto the ATHF which totally screws up what we are supposed to expect with the Adult Swim DVDs.....

Angela died, Tiffany (the rip-off of Angela that Todd tried to ram down everyone's throat) kept showing up, the child killer Billy Kincaid came back as a ghost who possessed the black ops boss Martin Sheen played in the movie and went on a killing spree, forcing Spawn to save the man who had him killed, and Spawn became a free agent in the Heaven-Hell war and chooses to stay in the alley and pout.....

Neil never sued for MM in his lawsuit. He sued for and won full rights to Angela and a couple of other characters (including that old hobo who mentored Spawn) and back royalties. He WAS offered a chance at the penalty phase to swap Angela and the royalties for MM (a deal Todd agreed legally to several years back but then refused to go through with) but declined do to the fact that Miracleman's UK publisher had recently made a rather bombshell announcement that he owns MM do to a reversal clause in his contract with Eclipse that said that MM reverted to him during the period between Eclipse going under and Todd buying the company's characters (including MM). Neil's logic for not taking the option was if the UK publisher's claim was true, then Todd never really owned any claim over MM and as a result would have gotten Angela and company back while Neil would have ended up with jack shit and would have traded away the only leverage he had to try and get the character away from the sell-out McFarlane...

The carrying over of Spike to Angel was something of a desperation move by Joss to save the show. Angel was in serious danger of being cancelled throughout last season and that being able to get Marsters to commit to joining the cast was the only thing that made the WB renew the show.

I disagree because: 1. AP3 has an actual story to it instead of it being a cheap sequel with a non-plot plot. 2. It cuts down on a lot of the useless characters from the first two movies and focuses on a core group of characters.

Actually three sequels: American Baby- Jim and Michelle conceive a child while Stifler knocks up a girl and has to prepare to be the child's father American Divorce- Jim cheats on Michelle and gets caught, triggering a mamoth divorce of epic proportion while Stifler marries and divorces his kid's mom and tries to get custody of his kid American Funeral: Jim's mom dies or one of the other MIA characters dies and everyone gathers for the funeral as hillarity ensues As for Stifler, I don't think he can carry a movie on his own. Plus movie spin-offs usually don't work that well, which means that SWS might not be so willing to do so when he can do other projects (movie and film) where he can play characters similar to Stifler without having to take the risk of having a huge bomb on his hands.

Yeah, the "Spike crawls out of the rubble that is Sunnydale" explaination makes more sense but leaves a huge plot hole as towards why Spike isn't with Buffy.... Plus having him being forced to haunt Angel (who Spike hates) gives the show so much to work with in terms of storyline ideas in terms of Spike and Angel having to cooperate and work together...

Yeah. Said new character (named Eve IIRC) is supposed to be Angel's liason between the shadowy W&F senior partners, replacing the Lilah chick that was around in the previous seasons... As for the Spike storyline, it has potential and gives a logical explaination as to why Spike would hang with Angel and not go off and reunited with Buffy....

Nope. In a big trim down move, the producers didn't bring Klein back and cut out all of the female characters (including the useless Shannon "Naked Chick" Elizabeth) save for Alyson Hannigan's character and the chick who plays Stifler's mom...

Ain't It Cool News has posted spoilers for the new season of Angel including the hows and whys to how Spike is coming back: Spoiler Space for it and other new season spoilers, including the return of a long-missing Buffy supporting cast member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spoiler (Highlight to Read): Spike is coming back as a ghost, sent to haunt Angel and generally be a nuesence towards him. Everyone wil be able to see Spike and that this set-up is being done mainly to justify why Spike won't go seek out Buffy upon his return. However, AICN does state that Spike's ghost status might be temporary as Spike will be confronted by a disgruntled client of the Wolfram & Hart Law Firm who is pissed off at Angel for trying to bust up a human chop shop that cuts up people up for demons for some unstated, non-food related purposes. This client (who's a telekinetic) will apparently approach Spike with promises to give Spike an all-new human body if Spike agrees to help him try and kill Angel after stating that he can't directly kill Angel without drawing the wrath of W&H's senior partners, who have some unknown plans for Angel. As for the returning Buffy supporting cast member, Harmony will be a new Angel regular as Angel's secretary/gopher at W&H. And for the convoluted Cordy in a Coma storyline, Joss has a resolution written up for it but that it all depends on whether or not he can get Charisma Carpenter to return for a couple of episodes so that they can do the storyline. If they can't, most likely expect Joss to not bring it back up anytime soon this season.

Cecilia Reyes (J-Lo esque mutant doctor who Chris Claremont turned into a junkie) was with Colossus when he decided to use the cure on himself and got the shit kicked out of her by Colossus when she tried to stop him from sacrificing himself......

Wolverine's healing factor wouldn't have saved him. It was the kicker of Stryfe's cure, that someone would have to die to cure his virus.

Spoiler (Highlight to Read): I believe it was the cure for the Legacy virus. For it to be able to work, someone was going to have to sarcifice themselves. While the other X-Men were playing basektball, Colossus injected himself. Whether or not, it was the real cure for the Legacy virus, I don't know. I have the issus that he dies in. I think that is pretty accurate, but if it's not someone can gladly correct me. Colossus did indeed die in order to cure the Legacy Virus, ending what had became a long-running joke of a storyline when it was resolved...

Colossus died in Uncanny X-Men #390 As for Psylockes, after dumping Angel for the evil jerk that was Thunderbird III (a native from India with fire powers) she and Beast were attacked by a Spanish mutant named Vargas, who was after a volume of Destiny's diaries that Storm and the Xtreme X-Men had. Vargas beat her and Beast to a bloody pulp, culminating with Vargas impaling her with his sword. Making things worse is that we never saw her death as Beast blacked out from his beating at Vargas's hands right as Psylockes and Vargas started fighting and woke up with Psylocke's corpse strategicly placed in his lap for the X-Men to find them....