*high five* You and me both. He was funny in small doses. He is neither an interesting enough character to warrant his own book or to be in multiple books.

It's not a bad idea...just effiminate.

Yeah, apparently. ::adjusts slip::

You know what I have found helps my love of Deadpool? I don't read any of his books. I love him for what he was 15 years ago when I was reading the X titles. All my opinions of him are based on that, and that is why I find I can still love him.

That would be good, but I try to play softer teams for my players in their bye-rounds. I'm more just looking for something fun rather than trying to trounce them. I might bring candy for the kiddies too.

Right now, Lobo is the funny Deadpool. He appears only occasionally and nobody has time to get bored with him. Lobo was great in 52. He immediately stops being entertaining when he gets an ongoing series.

What? That two-year olds don't belong on debate teams?

My point in my "stream of consciousness" (Comparing me, in any way, to Virginia Wolf if punishable by death!) was to show how someone can like something in a way that goes beyond average and then be rightfully annoyed when people jump on the bandwagon and like the same thing in a shallow way.

I can see where SLVR is coming from and you're saying that his logic in the case is like that of a two-year old.

True: if someone says "I don't like that because it's popular", they are probably some adolescent goth kid. Especially if the only criteria is that it's popular.

But, when something is popular, it can be a pretty good indication that it's banal. The largest portion of the population isn't the smartest.

Also, you can dislike having something shoved down your throat even if it isn't actually popular. There have been many overdone annoying commercial campaigns that everyone hated having shoved down their throat.

Remember that guy you were supposed to find at Burger King?

Hulked-Out Heroes #1 and 2 are my favorite Deadpool appearances to date. He just comes across as abrasively ADD in general, which is not fun for me to read.

I hate them both, but I would still have to agree with this.

So, you've never seen the Disney Channel?

I was going to say that the Disney channel is optional, but if you're a parent maybe it isn't.

Actually, if you're a parent, raise kids with better taste. Tell 'em a toad with no kids told them they have to have better taste.

Nobody's forcing me to watch it. At most, my kids watch Fineas and Ferb On Demand, and it's easy enough to ignore the commercials in that.

Give 'em Adventure Time. Kids don't need other shows if they have that. They'll grow up cool for once!

See, I look at it a different way: my sometimes knee-jerk distaste of certain things is directly relative to the types of fans (that I've personally met) of those things.

Vague example: I think it is safe to say that we all know and/or are that one guy who REFUSES to let someone say "I don't like ::INSERT FAVORITE BAND HERE::." I've personally run into this phenomena with fans of Dave MAtthews Band, Phish, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimmy Buffet, etc. When I voice my dislike (usually in very rational terms, unless we're talking about Buffet/Marley, in which case my argument amounts to "!@#$ that guy"), what ensues is a 30 - 40-minute conversation about how I'm wrong for not liking said bands. I would/do also engage in this sort of discussion rationally.

However, after a while, I want to say "Y'know why I really hate ::BLANK::? Because PEOPLE LIKE YOU LIKE ::BLANK::!"

Specific example: I must have had a dozen doe-eyed, filled-to-the-brim-with-personal-baggage, drama geek girls literally shove the RENT soundtrack (or at least earphones conveying same) into my ears. When I said, "Yeah, not my thing," you'd swear that I'd murdered all innocence and happiness in their lives.

I would love nothing more than to see one single splash page of Wolverine flat-out gutting Superman. I'd hang it on me wall.