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Thanks for the links, Deathbecomesyou.

I'm curious. Is there a link for those pics?

I'm in disagreement on many of Tawren's remarks on his first post, but I don't feel like bitching over how he clearly dislikes pretty much every Shawn Michaels match. I feel like mentioning the TAKA vs Sasuke rematch they had the day after Canadian Stampede. Pretty terrific match that I think gets ignored over their previous encounter. And sorry if I missed somebody mentioning them, but I don't see both Edge/Rey vs Benoit/Angle SD!Tag Title matches anywhere. Must see for 2002 without a doubt.

When/where did that happen?

Never heard about Lillian Garcia, Victoria, or Miss Jackie agreeing to pose for Playboy. Molly negotiating seems odd, since she barely even shows any skin in those WWE Divas magazines, so nudity seems improbable. Trish not posing in the near future is a real shame IMO, that's one I would definitely look forward to.

But it has Angelina Jolie in it, which pretty much makes it must-watch for me. At least one time. And if she shows skin then at least twice.

What about C-3P0 and R2-D2 on Sesame Street? Forgot about that, but still, 3PO didn't dance on Sesame Street. And holy crap, that was also quite a long time ago. I feel old now. Then again, I AM turning 31 next week, so that probably makes me ancient on this board... I better not reveal my age, then...

I loaned both Avengers Finale and Avengers #503 to a friend and he's yet to return them to me, so I ended up reading New Avengers #1 before those two issues. No jokes, please. Anyway, what I wanted to say is NA seems to be taking shape nicely, even with all those continuity errors everyone except Marvel seem to recognize. Time will tell if it lives up to the hype.

In one of the Busiek/Perez annuals (I believe it was 2000, with the Triune/Pym stuff), there was a mini-story where Duane the Liason was e-mailing Jarvis these questions, along with the formation of Cap's shield and the rebirth of the Wasp. The official answer was that when Franklin Richards recreated the heroes, he created them as he knew them. There was a cutscene of Stark saying "My God, the memories of three people are in my head." They tried to dig up the original Tony's corpse, and found nothing, so Iron Man is multiple Tony's in one head. Also, Hawkeye doesn't need a hearing aid anymore. Thanks for the tip, Kitson. Feel like tracking down that Annual just to read that info.

As a kid I loved me some Death of Superman and Return of Superman. Those got me through tons of car rides as a youngun... espically the HUGE Return of Superman. I still like Death--I love the "JLA throws all their energy right at Doomsday and he just laughs it off" scene, and lots of other stuff... but the few problems I have are common ones. 1) The gas station explosion. I can see this hurting Superman because of Doomsday already hurting him... but come on. It did WAY too much damage to Superman and Maxima it seems. Still a somewhat cool visual with Superman and Maxima totalled and Doomsday still in it. 2) Ice not dying. I know. I know. It's comics. Hulk's swatted Black Panther before, Shaggy Man punched Batman, Green Arrow was thrown through a brick chimney, and Wolverine can survive shots from Class 100 folks. But... no one of these were people who put down SUPERMAN. He punched her straight in the ribs. Unless he likes just playing with heroes and hurting them (my rationalization of it even since then) this should have killed her. 3) Worse than Ice not dying: Booster Gold not dying. The guy got a car door slammed on his neck by a guy who juggles skyscrapers. 4) Worse than both of these times 1000. Blue Beetle living. I love the guy. Beetle is one of the best cheeseball heroes ever. Besides, if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have NITE OWL in Watchmen--the hero of all pudgy Jewish bankers. Even in comic book land, getting your FACE slammed through steel pipes and into cement should decapitate you. Espically when your a normal human getting slugged by a guy who swats away Darkseid. Also Ice... it's good you want to save Beetle, but why not let the strongest standing leauge member fight Doomsday... the one who can provide a decent fight aganist Superman level foes? 5) Superman's strategy. It was an epic fight. However, why oh why didn't Superman just chuck him into orbit. He knew Doomsday didn't fly. Just leave him floating in space until you get better or get better help than a bunch of jobbers. Once again I love Beetle and Booster Gold and those guys, but for back up it would be the Marvel equivalent of Ultron and Loki coming to your city to cause havoc and the only heroes showing up be the Great Lake Avengers or The Power Pack coming to save the day when you expected Thor. Just plant Doomsday in space for a while, wait till someone like Captain Marvel, a better Green Lantern than Guy (Hal or Alan), Wonder Woman, Dr. Fate, Orion, etc. etc. can help you. I still like the book though. As a kid I would always read it and wonder what kind of destruction Doomsday would cause in the Marvel world? Figured most of the Avengers, X-folk, and Fantastic Four would be dead before Surfer, Thor, Hulk, or Warlock or someone figured out a way to stop Doomsday. Platinum, those are exactly the same problems I have with that story. By far the most troublesome to me is the fact that Supes fought so unintelligently that it's really sad. I never liked him much anyways, but reading that story just reinforced my distaste.

The animated feature with Boba Fett in it is the only redeeming thing about that Xmas crap. I believe it's the very first appearence of everyone's fav bounty hunter in the SW Universe, predating EpIV even.

My God, how could I forget "The Crossing?" Insanely bad story that totally fucked up my favorite comic-book character (Iron Man) and left the Avengers a complete mess. But unlike other people, I truly believe the Avengers and Iron Man were salvaged with their respective relaunches (specially the awesome Busiek-Perez run), even though to this day I believe nobody has fully explained the return of grown-up Tony.

Are you referring to the Bret/Owen cage matches or some Ladder matches the brothers had? If you're talking about the cage match at SummerSlam then that's a direct extension of some cage matches Shawn and Bret had.

They did it this year so there's a chance of it happening again. D'oh! I was there and it just slipped my mind. I got confused 'cause Eddie retained while Benoit won it. What I see as unlikely is that both faces would be crowned new champions. What they've been doing is one would retain while the other title changes, at least for these last two Manias. Then again, they could change it up next year.

Doesn't anybody think that Edge might get the Title at NYR and go for a Mania program with Orton? They seem to be having great chemistry together, they truly come across as hating each other and could possibly have a very good Mania match where Orton could go over if that's what WWE wants. Honestly, as much as I want it to happen, it seems unlikely Benoit's getting another reign any time soon. As for other possible Mania matches, it really seems like they're going for JBL vs Cena, but that would make my previous scenario doubtful since I doubt WWE would give both faces wins in World/WWE title matches in the same show at Mania, right? As for Shawn vs Angle, I'd give my left nut to see that match happen at Mania.

Release date, please?

I would definitely go to see an Ultraman movie, no doubt. Even though I was always more of an Ultraseven mark, but he's mostly unknown here in the States.

Can't make up my mind as to which one's are my favorite right now, so I'll just say whatever comes to mind: Best: Daredevil Born Again Worst: X-Men X-ecutioner's Song.

Deepdiscount is no longer listing the DVD, and DVDPlanet now has it for $17.99

I still thought it was terrific my third time around. I bought it from amazon.com with 41% discount, it should arrive any day now.

ElBarto, what you're saying makes little sense. Just because one DVD set has more "****+ matches" than any other doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna sell more copies. As far as I know, John Cena's set has extremely little in the quality match department, yet it sold mainly on Cena's popularity among the general fanbase. Also, take into account that those are 2004 sales. Flair's set was released last year around the same time as the Bloodbath DVD so it has 2003 sales to take into account, so that should make it the top seller no doubt. And regarding your Benoit and WMXX DVD comparison, the Mania set was released way before than Benoit's so if people wanted than Main Event match then they got the Mania set. WMXX was a terrific show IMO so it's no surprise to me it sold well. If anybody can post any more sales numbers that'd be great.

As far as I know, Flair's set is the year's top seller, followed by WMXX and Monday Night Wars. Actually, I think I remember Linda McMahon reporting actual sales figures in one of her famous shareholders reports or something. But it would be nice to have an official source, so good luck finding the info, Kizzo. I'm looking forward to it.

Dude, that song is like, 20 years old at least. Heard it many times. Launched Julio Iglesias's english-singing career at the time.

That one's one the Path of Destruction DVD that ECW released years ago. Awesome DVD BTW.

Is this the one where RVD refuses to shake the Eliminators hands at the end? Is the only RVD/Sabu vs Eliminators match I've seen. And except for his WWF/E work I haven't seen most of the matches listed so it's highly possible I'll be getting this. Release date, please? Edit: I remembered that I've also seen the RVD vs Bam Bam match and the first RVD vs Lynn match. Still, it makes over 10 matches I've never seen.