I most definitely agree with you there. I believe the idea of the Vision being the android Human Torch reconfigured was originally Roy Thomas', but Englehart fleshed it out beautifully. Of all the reasons I have to despise John Byrne and his body of work, his attempt to un-do that (which itself was un-done by Kurt Busiek, thanks Mr. B) is near the top of the list.

That's the one thing Byrne did that I liked. Showing the Vision was not the Torch.
I totally disliked Thomas' rape of the original Torch. And I didn't appreciate Englehart's going along with it.
As for Busiek's later work, it's been pretty much retcon'd away.

*sigh* Yet another reason I don't read Marvel anymore...getting almost as retcon-happy as DC.

Scary that this movie has been on my list of things to do...but I've been playing WoW a bit more lately so I haven't gotten around to it...guess I'll have to watch it tonight and hopefully get the answer in before someone else.

(Thanks for the review...but I don't mind when movies/cartoons tweak/change origins a bit - I'll have to see if it's more than a bit - as I see movies as their own "separate universe" (kind of like New Frontier Movie - which I know was based on the New Frontier books...but I liked the movie just a bit more - though both were great...shame that's not the core DC Universe).

You're late with the answer to my GL question. It was already answered by Monitor. And then he posted a question (which I tried to answer, but am waiting for him to confirm.
His question was/is;

And I answered with this;


Then IgMo answered with this:


Anyone else want to try? I'm not too sure of my answer or IgMo's. Monitor should know, since he asked the question.

The first part of it is-- where everybody is protecting a guy who Joker has sworn to murder.

Oh yeah. That's the one with the Joker wearing a suit of armor as a disguise and he's already killed the guy? I think that's the one.

Sorry, you're wrong, JTR.

Nope. Sorry it took so long to confirm or deny answers. The joys of only having one computer and two people wanting to use it.

Sunburst, Flashpoint and Backlash?




As for the two people wanting to use the computer, I'll say your Mother and your Father.

Backlash, Battalion and Bendix.

Oh, my. ............

Who knew William Bendix was a superhero. A Hairy one at that. No doubt he lived the life of Riley. Or was that Jackie Gleason? Or was it CuCr?

In their first comic the team was Fuji, Hellstrike, Battalion, Winter, and Diva (Cannon and Fahrenheit were on team 2, but should've been first string) - however there was a team before that of Battalion (as Jackson King at that time), Flashpoint and Nautika (who was married to a later teammate Sunburst).

All I know about him, is that he starred in the unofficial pilot for The Twilight Zone.