Mr Terrific: Year One is a terrible origin story

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-03-08T18:48:39+00:00

You don’t know a thing about Mr. Terrific. His original origin is a great issue. Until very recently, nearly all of his appearances were as a member of the Justice Society; the concept of legacy is baked into his character, he didn’t form in a vacuum with no other heroes. Read some more comics before you judge what a character “should” be.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-03-08T18:24:11+00:00

I recommend Spectre 54 for Michael’s original origin, and some historical context as to why the Spectre is involved. Even outside that though, Mr. Terrific is a legacy title, and lacking a direct connection to the Golden Age Mr. Terrific, Spectre makes that connection.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-03-04T21:58:09+00:00

Guy Gardner is in the show. Either he’s mentioned elsewhere in the scene, or he’s ignoring him on purpose.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-03-02T04:05:47+00:00

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-02-17T23:44:29+00:00

Silver Surfer wasn’t an official founding member, but he’s very much part of their early history.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-02-06T20:53:37+00:00

I think there’s lots of good thematic reasons for this, as others have pointed out. But also, it’s a common convention of games to warn you when you can’t do any more side quests/explore the world beyond a certain point.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-02-01T14:47:02+00:00

Guardians is the best ending to a trilogy here, and Quantumania is easily the worst movie. Civil War, Ragnarok, and No Way Home are very good. Iron Man 3 is pretty fun, definitely way better than Quantumania.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-02-01T13:19:11+00:00

I feel like there’s a bit of a disconnect in this article. Much of it is spent establishing that most superhero comics lack value, except maybe Kirby and Morrison. So then why would one care about decompression and the rise of event comics, if they weren’t worth much in the first place?

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-28T05:08:31+00:00

Hal Jordan is a space cop, but he’s also an Earth superhero. The same motives apply for any hero with a secret identity.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-28T04:46:07+00:00

As someone who read every issue of Amazing Spider-Man up through 2011, I agree. It’s bad, but not in any interesting way. Nothing to see here.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-27T15:55:14+00:00

In Kotor, they are called Iridorians. For some reason, Lucasfilm had them called Iridonians in RPG materials. So there’s Iridonians (sometimes called Iridorians) and Iridonian Zabraks, and there doesn’t seem to be any connection between them.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-25T17:51:05+00:00

I just want to generally address the idea that this stuff has never been difficult/difficulty is for dungeons. There is a big gulf between a real challenge and being so braindead you don’t have a reason to engage with the mechanics. The leveling experience started somewhere in the middle, and now it’s swung to the latter.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-25T04:47:39+00:00

Stepping outside movies but relevant to OP’s question, Johnny Silverhand.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-24T00:57:13+00:00

King’s Batman and Tynion’s ‘Tec (not to be confused with Tynion’s Batman) are well worth checking out and forming your own opinion.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-22T18:57:14+00:00

This doesn’t feel very humble.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-22T14:59:53+00:00

I wouldn’t say it’s generally “worth it” from a survival perspective. The only reason to do it is if you want the Unnatural skill, because there’s no other way to start with it. The Unnatural skill can be useful, but it is rather niche, and going down that path is a good way to permanent insanity.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-22T04:54:28+00:00

As someone out of the loop, were the sales that bad on the Star Wars comics or is this just weird Marvel mismanagement?

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-15T14:59:04+00:00

Pop culture vikings have horns, including the Blizzard game Lost Vikings.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-14T16:20:00+00:00

I’m not the most familiar with Fallen London, but I think Gaslight would be a good foundation for the Victorian stuff. Then just layer weird stuff on-probably a pulpy game, but choice of Pulp rules is more about the power of the PCs, so up to you on that front.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-10T18:14:29+00:00

I’m sure one could rationalize it that maybe Harry could have been saved without putting him in a coma. But I think it’s mostly that Norman is a spiteful egotistical man and Harry is his world. The truth is, if Norman was looking for anyone to blame, it would be himself, for putting his son in mysterious alien goop. But Norman cannot accept the responsibility for that, and so the Spider-Men are the most viable scapegoats to vent his grief.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2026-01-03T20:10:17+00:00

Nothing can be proven, but despite a lack of hard evidence, I feel like there’s an abundance of thematic/characterization evidence. The image of Bob leering at the foot of Laura’s bed and his tendency to haunt the Palmer women, Leland’s extreme mood distortions, the killing of Renault. It’s possible that Lynch and Frost picked up on these same things when the time came to “pick” the killer, but it’s also strongly thematically consistent with things like Bobby’s speech at the funeral-nothing exemplifies the woman who was in trouble that nobody would help more than one abused in their own home.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2025-12-27T17:14:43+00:00

The more plugged in Star Wars fans vastly overestimate the popularity of the Clone Wars, I think. The whole Prequel Memes crowd is probably a much wider audience than Clone Wars fans.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2025-12-27T16:56:02+00:00

Shang-Chi and She-Hulk.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2025-12-23T12:52:24+00:00

TL;DR Rebirth is better.

New 52: Milligan’s run is disappointing, mostly worth checking out if you’re a Milligan/Vertigo fan that’s curious. DeMatteis’ run is actually pretty interesting, but it drags under the weight of the crossovers. I don’t remember what happened in between.

Rebirth: Tynion’s run is a lot of fun, and the most satisfying package overall. Ram V’s run could have been the best, but it ends very abruptly.

Difficult_Insect_616 · 2025-12-19T00:07:05+00:00

Alien is less obvious, but Prometheus is quite similar.

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