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You know, this whole debate over Necrosha and Blackest Night reminds me of another controversy...
 
In the Golden age of animation, The two big names were Warner Bros and MGM.  Well one year, both studios released a cartoons (one relesed immediately after the other) that were strickingly similar.  MGM's was a Tom & Jerry film called "Cat Concerto"  and WB released "Rabbit Rhapsody" starring bugs bunny.  Both cartoons feature Tom and Bugs doing a concert piano perfomance to a filled theatre, during which the music (the Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in both cartoon) wake up a mouse sleeping underneathe the stage (Jerry and a unnamed mouse respectively) annoyed, the mouse sets out to ruin and end the performance and get back to sleep.
 
The two films, not only sharing the same plot and same musical piece, also have nearly identical gags run in the same order.  Both studios claimed that they had made the cartoon and sent the original print off to technicolor, who eledgedly accidentally cent it back to the other company, thus allowing the competitor to copy it before corecting the shipping error.
 
In watching the cartoon, it is clear that it is no coincidence, yet both companies stuck with their story till MGM was bought out by WB.  So a concrete answer never given people simply chose to belive the one they liked the best to be the original.  I have my own opinion, but it's really moot, so I don't care.
 
Seems to be the same case here.  Which ever you like, go ahead and enjoy it knowing that any potential knock off can't sour how good the "original" is.  And if you can enjoy both, more power to you, and which ever came first is irrelevent to their individual quality.  This controversy is one that won't be put to bed because the die hard fans will always defend the company they prefer.
 
Just remember "originality is simply forgetting where you saw it first"

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@Nev-man: Don't get your hopes up friend.  It's a cat face, just a poorly drawn cat face.  Note the flat nose and muzzle/upper lip.  Marvel should really agree on a standard on how Beast should look.  Depending on who's drawing him he ends up looking completely different.
 
For example, you brought up his fingers.  Well, only half of the "cat" versions of beaset had four fingers.  All the other artists still give him five digits.  Cassady even gave him four finger, but five toes.  Now I can understand the face looking different between artists as some might not be as accostomed to drawing cats,  but you would think something like number of digits is a big enough detail for marvel to enforce.
 
Personally I think they should agree on five, as cats have five digits themselves.
 
On a side note:  What is with all the hate toward Beast's cat form?  I find it usually comes from people who don't care for Beast much, but when they see him they don't want to see a cat.
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"Ladies and Gentelmen, Behold the sheer strength of the super pets.  And even though they all have the gift of flight I assure you that this is infact a feat of balance and strength and not closely cheoreographed hovering... "

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What happened to this book was a shame.  S.W.O.R.D. was a breath of fresh air in a world full of love triangles, abiguous villians and dramatic sacrifices.  This book entered under the intetion of taking a great cast of characters and putting them in fun and exciting situation.  You weren't supposed to worry about if Brand would stay with Beast (it was a given) you weren't meant to wonder If the bad guy's intetions were anything less than wrong (it was implied).  This book was meant to be an exciting title that could go places where the others couldn't (Kind of how the original SHIELD was)
 
Marvel is losing a truly original title in cancelling this book.

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@danhimself: I imagine that's probably Dove.  In the tie in's we've learned that the Doves are resistant to BL powers.  The first dove was unable to be brought back by the BL rings and the current dove when seen by the BLs radiates a white aura that The BLs can't read.
 
Also I don't follow JSA, so does anyone know who that girl inthe red shirt standing in front of Cyborg is?  At first I thougt it was Wonder Girl (which I hope it is cause maybe we can get her off the Teen Titans book)  I saw the new line-up for the league and whoever she is, she wasn't there so I'm assuming she's in JSA.
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@Lunacyde: They are electric type. High attack and special defense.  They are pretty good in the Diamond, but the kick so much ass in mystery dungeon thanks to moves like charge and discharge.  They also learn bite and crunch so they are useful agaisnt ghost and phychic types too.  Also they have the ability to see throught solid objects, which of course never comes into use in the games.
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easy pick for me.  Luxray all the way!
 

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I mean, how can you argue with a black lion?  I do think he should also have a dark type,  maybe they'll fix that in the next generation like how they added the steel type to magnamite.  They should also give femal shinx's alternate forms cause females with manes is just wrong.
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Beast Is easily my favorite character.  Unfortunately most writers end up pigeon holing him as the doctor or scientist and he ends up going into a characterization limbo. However, Morrison did a wonderful job with Hank and I would say that Whedon did even better.  They both remembered that hank not only filled the role of scientist, but also as the medeator of team moral.  Another good place to look is in the Endangered Species mini series.  The writing isn't the best out there, as is to be expected when there are multiple authors, but the overall story is good and it really lets beast shine.
 
Even better however is that Hank is now co-starring in a new on going book: S.W.O.R.D. Number 2 came out early this month and the book holds alot of promise.  The writing is quite good considering that both #1 and #2 were still introducing the characters into the new setting and situations.  The art is dissapointing, but not enough to take away the thrill that Beast is now a co-star (not side-character) in a monthly on going (not mini-series)  It really seems like the decades of paying his dues are finally paying off for the big, blue guy.  However, I would suggest reading Whedon's run of Astonishing X-men before picking up this title as it makes the charater interactions far more entertaining knowing the past beast has with all the new faces in this title.

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I think Lizard ought to be the villian in the next film, but what I really want...
 
"Pete's powers start acting up and it's getting in the way of his hero work.  He goes to Conners to see if he can find some answers.  Conners tells Spidey that his genetic make-up is still changing and becoming more spider-like.  Conners finds that spider-man's mutating genetic code may be the answer he has been looking for to help bridge the gap between to un-like species like spiders and humans.  Or in his case, lizards and human. He creates a serum based on Spidey's genetic code but modifies it to lizards, then he takes it himself.  Eventually Conners starts to black out and transform into the Lizard.  Having no memories from these events, Conners hears about the "Monster attacks" and blames Spider-man since he predicted he would mutate further.  Pete tries to investigate but has trouble as the public are now more afraid of him than ever.  The stress of being hunted down then jump starts his mutation and transforms him into Man-Spider!  However, Conners discovers that the claw marks from the earlier attacks aren't the same as the documented Man-spider attacks.  He realizes that he has been transforming as well and starts to devise a cure.  As he is about to take his cure, he is attacked by Man-Spider and the trauma cases Conners to turn into the lizard again.  We get an awesome Monster fight then Man-Spiders defeats the lizard, causing Conners to revert to his human form.  Then to keep himself alive, Conners uses the cure on Man-Spider instead of himself and Spidey reverts back to his original mutated self."
 
I think it could work, but Kraven hunting down the Lizard would be equally cool.

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The art isn't stellar, certainly, but we haven't seen the staring couple yet.  They might look great.  Also, I'm always far more concerned with the story rather than the art (of course the art can only be so bad before it distracts from even the best script)  Anyway, I am so excited to see Beast away from the x-men.  When writers don't like him or don't know how to write him (like has been the case in recent Uncanny and Astonishing) then they just write him off as the medical/tech guy in the background.  This will be a great moment for him to shine and for one of the first x-men and fonding member of many other big Marvel team's I think a co-starring role in his own book is long over do.