So I read that Blade 2 review and damn! It is hard to type all curled up in the fetal position.
Captain Great | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 2:59 am | #

I'm telling ya, the "52" of the title means the DCU is Earth-52. Those missing seconds are just a red herring.
Knox | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 3:06 am | #

"drink their milk and stick to Hitler and all that"

Should that be 'stick it to Hitler', or did 40s comics really advise the readers to stay with the Fuhrer? (Things may look ropey now, kids, but he's got a plan!)
Derooftrouser | 01.23.07 - 4:48 am | #

That Blade 2 review was....written by a man who has never known the intimate touch of another, if you catch my drift, and has spent way too much time reading the Penthouse Forum
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 4:58 am | #

"Stick to Hitler?"

Wertham was right!
Mike Loughlin | Email | 01.23.07 - 6:22 am | #

"stick to Hitler"

At last Sterling reveals his true colors. You were right, Dorian! You were right!
Dave Lartigue | Email | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 6:30 am | #

Speaking of secret messages, if you go through Mike's archives and read the third letter of the first post of each month with an R, you get "NAZIS ARE AWESOME." It's true.
tomthedog | Email | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 8:04 am | #

Whoops! That was a bad place to leave a word out, wasn't it?
Mikester | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 9:12 am | #

If you "enjoyed" Harry's Blade 2 review, you'll also be sure to enjoy his ruminations on the sex life of the 17 year old cheerleader from Heroes:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/3...semperex- search

But remember, kids, it's the CREATORS of the show that are sick and perverted, not him, ok?
Brit | Email | 01.23.07 - 12:27 pm | #

... and then I made the mistake of finding out what Harry Knowles looks like.

The horror. The horror.
philip | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 1:34 pm | #

That Blade 2 review made my soul throw up a little.
The Doc | Email | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 2:07 pm | #

The message is worded "the secret of fifty-two is that the multiverse still exists." (Emphasis mine.) Technically, wouldn't that imply that it never really was destroyed, which would mean that the original Earths-2, 4, S and X still exist? Maybe there'll be an Earth-1 JSA and an Earth-2 JSA, and Earth-1 Captain Marvel and an Earth-X Captain Marvel, and so on (like there used to be an Earth-2 Superman and Batman).
Adam Stephanides | Email | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 4:22 pm | #

Brit - Oh, yeah, I remember that brouhaha. Goodness me, that was embarrassing.

Adam S. - Let us all hope that's not the case! If folks thought things were confusing before....
Mikester | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 4:41 pm | #

I remember someone bringing up Ain't It Cool News on GEnie, back in the late '90s, and Neil Gaiman said then that as nearly as he could recall, AICN had never been substantially correct on the major points of any story he'd been involved in or had first-hand knowledge of.
Bruce Baugh | Email | 01.23.07 - 4:59 pm | #

I got maybe a paragraph into the Blade 2 thing before my brain seized up and I died. I'm currently typing this from the 3rd level of hell. Say what you will about the fiery pits of damnation, but the wi-fi access here is second to none.
Bill D. | Email | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 5:18 pm | #

I can't believe that as "important" as it styles itself in the entertainment world, AICN is the worst-designed and crummiest-looking website, ever. Any one of the blogs on any one of our sidebars is likely to be ten or fifteen times better-looking than AICN. In an industry where appearance counts, I can't believe people can even get past that aspect of it. (Not to mention that they can't be bothered to convert curly quotes to straight ones, so they show up as nonsense characters on some browsers.)
Bully | Email | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 5:45 pm | #

Bully - In an odd way, I miss the old version of the AICN site (an archived version you can see here). There's kind of a charming homemade '90s-html crappiness to it that appeals to me.
Mikester | Homepage | 01.23.07 - 7:39 pm | #

I think that the "still" means "since Infinite Crisis", which temporarily returned the multiverse to that Alex's big ol' hands could smash it into pieces.
Derek B. Haas | Email | 01.23.07 - 8:06 pm | #

Remember folks: Every visit to AICN kills a puppy.
De Baisch | Email | Homepage | 01.24.07 - 12:05 pm | #