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If someone normally introduces themselves with such names as "Doctor Whatever" or "Mister Whatever," I don't count that as a duplicate of the name "Whatever." I decided to see how many Doctor-names ...

If that's addressed to me, I'm not sure I understand. I checked just now, and found that two years ago "Dr. Stasis" debuted as a previously-unknown clone of the original Nathaniel Essex in the MU....

In recent weeks, I've been working hard on finishing the next version.

The above link only goes to the Third Draft. Two more Drafts were posted later on, although I admit it's been a very long...

Sometime back in the 2000s, when the Soviet Union had been defunct for over a decade, I saw someone suggest that perhaps Marvel's sliding timescale should be interpreted to mean: "The USSR just...

So I'm trying to put the finishing touches on an updated list of all of the many times when Marvel and DC have used the same colorful aliases for different characters, and I found myself wondering...

I never asked myself that question before. But looking back on it, ever since my age was measured in single digits I've been particularly fond of "The Amazing Spider-Man #18," in which Peter Parker...

The Shield now displays yet another useful trick which wasn't mentioned in his origin story. He produces some glass containers and mixes their contents together to create a powerful acid which is his...

As those of you with long memories will recall, for several years now I have had a sacred tradition. In honor of this special day of the year, I am once again perpetrating -- I mean, perpetuating --...

And here I thought I only added the smiley face in a good-humored attempt to soften the blow to your ego when you realized I was pointing out how silly you were being . . . but what do I know?

Any so-called Green Arrow fan who basically says "Real Green Arrow fans are not allowed to enjoy a different take on the character unless I give them permission to enjoy it" is spurious in my view. ...

You want the truth? Off the top of my head, I can't even remember that episode! But I'm old enough that I started collecting Batman comic books in the early 1980s, and back in those days, it was...

Looking back, I see that three years ago, when I offered some Controversial Opinions of my own in this thread, one was this:



I didn't go into as much detail as you did, but you're covering...

That last bit was my first thought when I saw the question. It would just make fans snort when they ran across the ludicrous suggestion that "Roy has been half-Native American by blood all along, and...

I paid for it on Comixology and read it, focusing (of course) on anything resembling Psylocke/Spidey dialogue. Looks like you and I agree that anything along those lines only happened in one panel....

Several years ago, back when DC still hosted discussion forums on its own website, I saw someone set forth an interesting theory about that adoption.

His idea went this way: "Bruce had already...

Thank you! I felt certain those two must have crossed paths, canonically, and probably more than once, in the 30 years it's been since Betsy first joined the X-Men. But I couldn't visualize, from...

Booster isn't addressing (much less contradicting) my opinion at all!

I never said the Giffen/DeMatteis League was just a bunch of useless screwups. I never said they didn't risk their lives on...

I'm not sure what you mean.

It seems as if you're saying this: "Psylocke has only interacted with Spidey in one published story. That story is noncanonical, so it doesn't really count. They have...

It occurred to me that although I've participated in this thread intermittently, I don't think I've ever offered a selection of my own "Controversial Opinions" in it. Better late than never!

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I have a quick question about Psylocke's continuity. I recently realized that while I remember a lot about the things she did within the X-Men titles during the 1980s, 1990s, and well into the 2000s,...

Before, you were simply saying "he shouldn't have a name."

Now you are arguing that calling him "Stranger" or "The Stranger" is a nickname, but that's okay as long as he doesn't use "The Phantom...

I've never seen this opinion before. It confuses me. I see a difference between "a descriptive nickname" or "a job title" on the one hand, and "a real name," on the other.

Don't other characters...

To me, it seemed obvious that anybody who has known Batman for more than a day or two should take it for granted that he has contingency plans for all sorts of worst-case scenarios. (Such as a Green...

Even before I saw your post, I was looking at the options and thinking: "It does seem odd to not include the original Avengers writer on the list of candidates." Not that I would have voted for him...

I quoted the first paragraph of my previous post so I can point out that I used the words "any one non-superpower-augmented character" to describe what sort of people I had in mind when I talked...