My guess would be buying time and hoping to make enough $$$ to buy character rights.

A2 being about Ultron screams "wanted IG but had to settle for the big crossover of the year and hope it's big enough to still be relevant 2 years from now."

Weak.

I thought it was waaaay to soon to go IG as soon as I saw Thanos in Avengers.

Not enough characters have been introduced yet.

Avengers 2 wont even be all that Galactic IMO.

Ultron was a huge enemy for them. They needed someone.
Hell, the Mandarins story would have been awesome and big enough had they not shit all over it. IM3 could have really set up A2.
The Rings/Fin Fang Foom/Chinese Powerhouse threat. Coulda been cool.

I have recently started picking up a few comics myself after not collecting for a long time. There is a little shop in Lee's Summit call pulp fiction comics and games that I have been going to lately. They seem pretty cool. Here is a link to their website:

http://pfcomics.com/

A few years ago, Marvel offered a set of CDs that contained PDF copies of every issue of the Amazing Spider-Man series, from #1 up to whatever was currently the latest issue. I wish they would do the same with other mainsteam series so that the non-collector could read the series and get caught up.

I imagine it was pretty time-consuming though, because they were obviously hand scanned copies saved to PDF.

I'll check them out. Thanks, man.

A to Z in Blue Springs is a good store.

They already have every comic they've ever printed on PDF. This is Disney now; it's a matter of marketing.

No arguments there. Well, and maybe the editor.

But that's what's so much fun about hypothetical superhero match-ups: they can never be resolved. Stan Lee said that when they're in the comics, they should always end in a draw, so the argument can't ever be settled. He's got a point.

Oh, and by the way, Hulk lovers: Havok - scrawny, lame, finheaded Havok - straight up owned him. In a clean fight, with no gimmicks, no handicaps, no surprise attacks, no funny business. One blast, right between the eyes, Hulk crumpled like the tin foil cover of last night's take-out and unHulkified back in to Banner. Havok then just walked away, leaving Banner for dead, in the middle of the desert, wearing nothing but his purple pants.

So, yeah. It's all about the writers.

It really is. I don't think ill ever understand how, in Civil War, Capt America worked out Spider-Man who later got the best of Iron Man in a brief encounter. That shit was all ass backwards.

try marvel unlimited for a month. they have massive runs of all their major titles.
http://marvel.com/comics/unlimited

I read through about 200 in 1 month then canceled. If you just want to read Marvel comics, that's the way to do it.

no Groo :spock:

Shit you would ask that, it is off barry road across from the amc in a strip mall..

Like said above, and by me many times..

Supes weaknesses, humanity, magic and kryptonite..

thor would put up a great fight.. A lot of Marvel characters actually would with their magic backgrounds. I think Strange would destroy him quickly.

And writers can write it however they want, but it is all about matchups..

Supes should be able to ko hulk pretty quick if he does not mess around. If not, hulk just gets more pissed.

Phoenix could probably **** him up if that is considered magic..

I didn't know much about Gladiator but recently read a short run called The Annihilators. It was an offshoot of Annihilation Conquest and featured a ragtag team of Gladiator, Silver Surfer, Ronan the Accuser, Quasar and a few others. I think Gladiator's main power is that he is indestructible. So he's got that going for him, which is nice.

Thanks

There are a shit ton of reality warpers and mutants with powers over atomic manipulation in Marvel (people like Scarlet Witch and Franklin Richards). How would they fare against Superman?