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yesss! they're all so underrated. i hope they can give the satellaview entry the remake treatment someday -- it sucks that there's a full on sequel that was essentially only broadcast via radio thrice 20 years ago.

Same with Hickman, tbh. I get he's got Imperial and USM to worry about, but surely Marvel would want to put their most revered writer (who wrote one of the best comic crossover books last year) on such a visible issue. Maybe he was turned off by the page limits?

Basically I'm asking Masahiro Sakurai to chessify my platform fighter.

Mhmm. Some later characters try to remedy this a bit like Robin leaning into tactics and magic or Byleth showing off the weapons triangle. But you're missing so many interesting classes and mechanics by sticking to the lords. Give us a mount user or an armor knight or an archer or even a dancer.

Until I can ride a pegasus while fighting Captain Olimar and the Wii Fit Trainer, Fire Emblem's representation will always be incomplete.

Asking anyone to become a Castlevania fan is like asking them to tie their hopes and dreams to a rock sinking in the ocean. BUT as a Metroid fan, I think you would get a kick out of Symphony of the Night, the GBA games and the DS Games. The older games can be fun but they're more platform heavy.

I wish the stage version wasn't so difficult to produce, I neeeeeed to see that live posthaste.

Different guy! You're thinking of Cebulski, who's inexplicably Editor in Chief. Our AI user is Brevoort, who's currently managing the X-Men line by scrubbing them of revolutionary politics and cashing in on 90s nostalgia.

Just your everyday robotic Brotherhood of Evil Mutants invasion, no biggie. (panel from the underrated Wolverine: First Class #6 by Van Lente and Espin).

1st Panel - A TV displaying a hockey match, the announcer's voice appearing throughout the page as a shouting speech balloon. "Here's Iwaniec, working his way through MacMiller, connecting with Sareva. And Sareva will send him packing..." 2nd Panel - The same TV. A Quicksilver robot is partially blocking the screen. "Teller gets his marching orders from Kosolov -- then gets creamed in the corner by Tyler!! Oh, that was brutal! 3rd Panel - The Quicksilver robot is joined by a Toad robot. "How about Tyler, all eight of his goals in the playoffs coming on the road..." 4th Panel - A reverse shot of the couch. Wolverine is trying to peek over the robots' shoulders to watch the game. "Hammerskjold avoids the brunt of that hit from Druett..." 5th Panel - Robot versions of Toad, Quicksilver, Magneto, Scarlet Witch, and Mastermind completely block the TV. "Calgary back home on home ice--" "Sareva to Tyler!" 6th Panel - Reverse shot of the robots beginning to move toward Wolverine. Wolverine is mad, still trying to watch the game. "To Peterson!" "Kosolov!" "McDougal!" "Romola!" "To Peterson again!!!"

YOO THIS IS SO COOL! Thank you for your labor

McDuffie's Batman: Blink/Don't Blink?

RIP to Peter David. Truly a monumental writer whose impact lives on. Hulk, X-Factor, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor again is a run most people could only dream of. Wishing the best to his wife and family.

Seconding the Demon Bear Saga and Headmaster Magneto arcs. Love them both. As a warning though, the series becomes a bit of a mixed bag once Louise Simonson takes over with issue 55. You get some important arcs like Inferno and everything with Cypher, but it's couched between some absolute nonsense.

You get hints towards deeper layers during Claremont's New Mutants run, but most of her development is under future writers' pens. Lobdell makes big changes during his runs on Uncanny X-Men and Generation X, and imo, Morrison and Whedon are the ones to set her girlbossiness in stone.

Haven't read that run, but I've heard it's good! I like the CotU because they're basically what would happen if people from TIME's Most Influential list quit their jobs & started having Fantastic 4 adventures together. The original run hasn't aged perfectly, but there's a lot of good Kirby action.

Splash page of the Challengers of the Unknown in action poses. Alongside the left side of the page are head shots with the respective names of the members: Ace Morgan, Prof Haley, Red Ryan, Rocky Davis, and Dr. June Robbins.

The Challengers of the Unknown!

Swamp Thing!

They actually were planning on charging like 20 dollars for Wii Sports, but Nintendo of America fought back hard and got them to make it a pack-in title. So really, this is just them going back to their roots.

congrats!!!

yeah not a part of the punch out fandom but they are kind of spitting. his turtleneck look from punch out wii especially hits that balance between like toned and sensitive. it's hot!

you absolutely should! wolfman and perez made some sick ass comics

no fair! it can be hard to pick up something your favorite works are iterating on (the doom patrol did come before the x-men but morrison's doom patrol was very much in response to claremont). still, i think x-men is best at balancing large scale political commentary and slowburn character drama

always down to talk superheroes! really hope you can get into the x-men some day! they make for some fun, messy discussions (and would probably lead to some interesting talks about kink!)

The only other three I can think of are rogue-likes, soulsbournes, and the -vania part of Metroidvania being from Castlevania. Either way, it's a super exclusive club.

No, you're 100% correct! Despite having a literal genre named after it, Metroid still feels so underrated. The fact that it hasn't had a game break 4 million sales is nuts to me given how consistently high quality and innovative it is.

If I were in your shoes, I think some noodle soups like pho or ramen would hit. Either way, I hope you feel better!

Hope you forget enough that you can go into your next playthrough with fresh eyes!

Fair enough! I can't wait to see what you think about Super Metroid -- that's one of my favorite games of all time.

In the other games, it's called Zebes! But Zebeth is still valid. Dang though, respect for playing OG Metroid! Are you planning on playing Zero Mission as well?