You could have a hero that has a split personality, and he is constantly bouncing ideas off of it. Anyone that has seen Mr. Brooks knows what I mean.

...Huh.

I think I missed something. Well everything else I said I stand behind.

I've been thinking about writing a long Superman novel for awhile, wanting to let it stew while I implement my plan to be a published writer with a chance of getting DC to license the characters. I agree about taking away the dark gods of the universe and the rest of the superpowered folks.

In my own way, I had an idea that he'd be fighting corruption. The most important parallel I had for the book was Superman, who had been granted awesome powers as a result of who he was, and Lex Luthor, granted nothing, who rose from the slums with nothing but his own intellect, thinking himself above laws and other men. He'd be a Nietzschean superman to do battle with our hero Superman.

Then I thought of villains Superman could actually fight, and I considered the 100, but decided to go with Toyman. I think, if LexCorp bought out Schott Toys, that the Toyman would be an interesting enemy for Superman. The little man that Superman usually fights for, but one who has given in to his dark side.

It's not written yet, as it's an ambitious project and I want to research it properly first by watching where Superman went wrong. Lois and Clark, Smallville, etc.

If you have an ambitious project you want to add to superhero comics I suggest staying the fuck away from DC.

Well, it wouldn't work with a bunch of Captain Ersatzes, let me tell you. Only way I'd do it would be if I could license the Superman properties for the novel.

And again, we're talking years down the line.

Man, it's not Hugh Jackman's fault that he's simultaneously the best guy they could've picked for the role while also being 80'9" or something. Being 5'4" myself I also prefer tiny sawn-off Wolverine, but it doesn't kill me that he's a little taller these days, if only because Hugh Jackman's influence also means there's less tendency to draw the horrible '80s helmet hair.

If you're trying to tell me the world's run out of burly 5'2" dudes with a chip on their shoulders such that they couldn't have found one with Hugh "Van Helsing" Jackman's acting range then save it sister, I ain't buyin'. Hugh Jackman's just the best guy after you throw out every guy in the world who actually would have fit the role but gets excluded because Wolverine is The Leading Man and thus must be a Tall Bastard, just as Cyke is his Competitor and thereby must be Slightly Shorter and a Sniveling Douche. Because it is carved into the very bedrock of Hollywood that any deliberately subversive or non-normative element in any given work of fiction must be thrown the fuck out and turned into the same homogenized crap which it was originally interesting for having rejected.

...Don't mind me, I just watched the Watchmen trailer.

That's a lot of words for "Hi, my name is Fifthfiend and I have a short man complex like whoa".

I don't think you can blame Hugh Jackman for spending the entire movie trilogy making the movie like this:

http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20060605cyclops.png

I really liked X-Men and X-2, but I had hoped that they would bring Cyclops more to the foreground since he spent the entire movie series being "The Leader" but not even really all that relevant. You could have thrown anyone in there and they'd have been forgotten.

No offense, but Seil got banned for a reason. I'd really like it if people made their own points instead of relying on posting webcomics to do it for them.