And this is why, when the 2017 Rulebook comes out, you're all getting an audio recording of my dulcet tones reading it.

Part joke and part, "you have no excuse now, someone will literally read the damn thing to you."

Gotta add my 2 cents. When I first started playing this game, I read the rulebook twice, and still go back and read it hear and there for certain clarifications. Your effort shows how much you really like and want to play this game.

Actually, I agree with this. It's not a bad practice to reread the rulebook on a regular basis.

and with my "discovery" of figure 15 and the ability to place on a diagonal, I'm taking my rule book to lunch next week (and not skipping anything)

Do characters that are on the sideline waiting to enter the game via an ID card Call In Help action also possess the ATA if they also possess the same keyword? EX: Superman and Wonder Woman on the map utilizing the Justice League ATA. Player also has 2 ID cards on his team (Supergirl and Green Arrow) who also possess the same Justice League keyword. Does the player have to add the cost of the ATA for Supergirl and Green Arrow?

No. The characters on your sideline is not part of your force. And unless a game effect specifically say otherwise you cannot assign anything to those characters.

I am a reader. That's why I eventually opened a comic store. I love to read. I learn second best by reading, be it the rules of Heroclix or the latest nonsense from the HR department where I work. I learn best by seeing someone illustrating or drawing what I am learning, but I don't expect to find anyone to draw the rulebook for me. And HR is wanting me to quit drawing, I think.....but I digress...
I want to make a point that I am almost certain many will disagree with. That is that everyone does not learn the same way. Some can read the rulebook a 1000 times and not get it. They learn best by hands on doing and then can go back and read and it makes sense.
Others learn best from discussing and I think that's why a lot threads start like this one did with a question that seems so simple to many of us and leads to "I'm no trying to be snarky, but...."
I am not disagreeing with anything I've read here. I am only putting forward a point to consider when teaching or wondering why someone can't get it from reading the rulebook.

Except that he acknowledged that he never read the rule book throughout. I do agree though that people learn in different ways. The best way is to read, do, and discuss. Then you can re-read if necessary but this way you get more out of it. The idea though is that if someone is spoon fed they will not know how to teach themselves. Give a man a fish against teaching him how to fish and all that.

Give a man a fish against teaching him how to fish and all that.

Come on, get it right:

Give a man fire and he's warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

The best way (for you) is to read, do, and discuss. That doesn't necessarily mean it's the best way for someone else. I think that's the point of Greth's post.

And the point of the others is that there will never be a case for anyone where the best way to learn is to never read the rulebook.

Wow! The great Harpua speaks in relation to one of my posts. This is a treat for me because as I have stated. although I rarley post, at least til now, I have read almost every clix rules thread since near the beginning of HCRealms.
And you are in my top 5 folks that I like to read your points of view on the rules and such. Thanks for virtually years of unknowingly breaking things down to my simpleminded level.

Yeah, it happened to me once. I forget what the question was but the first three answers were from Dragon and Mirandir with Harpua confirming. It was AWESOME!

And here I was thinking "Awesome!!! I get to respond to Greth and kungfool!!!"

That's weird, I have a vague memory of large figures like original Galactus being allowed to be played on a diagonal, after which it changed fairly quickly as it got hard to figure out where the character actually was. But I could be wrong. Maybe people just played that way until it got stamped out once and for all.