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The Top 9 Supervillains I DO Want to Hang Out With

NOTE: Please see last week’s The Top 9 Superheroes I DON’T Want to Hang Out With.

9. Thunderball. You know, from the Wrecking Crew. He’s got that awesome wrecking ball on a chain that he swings around. We’d go to a condemned building and swing that damned ball around until the whole place comes crashing down. Around the time that he decides to go rob a bank, I’ll just say I’m tired and head home.

8. Deathstroke. I would convince Slade Wilson that we should go to an underground fighting tournament and have some fun. We’ll do the Munson and McCracken routine from Kingpin, and pretend we’re inexperienced betters. Then I’d sit back and watch Deathstroke take out every single chump one-by-one.

7. Catwoman. Sexy and spontaneous, we’d definitely do something fun. She’s more of a trickster baddie than a malicious villain, so I wouldn’t have to worry about risking my life too much during one night out with Selina Kyle. It would just get boring to hear her talk over and over about how great Batman is.

6. Dr. Doom. Okay, he’s a bit nuts. But he can travel through time, he’s a scientific genius, and he certainly doesn’t lack entertainment value. The only way a hang out session with Victor Von Doom could go downhill would be if he tried to make me his servant or something like that.

5. Riddler. Our conversations would be utterly confusing but his constant need to tell me interesting puns and mystery stories could actually end up being really enjoyable. I mean, one night of Edward Nigma would be enough. But I think it would be worth it for a single hang out session.

4. Batroc. C’mon, you know that I would hang with Georges for one night and one night only for this simple reason - parkour. I would meet up with Batroc in a city that has a lot of low roofs and I would watch him do crazy stunts all night… preferably, somewhere with a lot of poured concrete architecture.

3. Mystique. I would work real hard to stay on Mystique’s good side all night because when I go home with her later, I can have sex with anyone I want! It just takes Raven Darkholme one simple thought and BAM! I can choose from Kerry Washington or Lucy Liu (or why not both!?!). Excellent.

2. Namor. Yeah, the guy is a bit unstable. But the Sub-Mariner has an entire underwater kingdom at his command, and I would want to spend at least one hang out session traveling the ocean depths with him. I would ask to visit all sorts of incredible scenic underwater locations that air breathers have never seen before.

1. Galactus. Okay, first off, I would not want to hang with him on a “hungry” night. Well, I guess he’s always hungry… but you catch my drift. Galactus and I would chill shortly after he’s eaten. Thus he would be in a jovial mood, and I would ask the oldest being in the universe all sorts of fascinating questions about the cosmos.

Next: The Top 9 Gadgets That Inspector Gadget Needs to Get!

Why the Top 9? Because 10 is too many and 9 is better. 3 X 3 = Awesome. Now that’s what I call math.

Sadly, the Podcast Takes a Week Off

But not without something special by way of Neal, of course (last I checked, there should be an AIMcast coming your way in place of the podcast). I know all 10 to 20 (HA!) of our regular listeners will be devastated to know that the AudioShocker needs to take a week off.

But listen, this weekend I:

  1. finished packing my entire apartment
  2. moved from 9:30am to 3:30pm on Saturday
  3. made it to the airport by 4:50pm for a 5:35pm flight that got pushed back three hours
  4. made it to Philly and crashed
  5. woke up on Sunday and moved an entertainment center
  6. picked up a dog that is now officially a Pittsburgh resident in my apartment
  7. made it back to the airport for another delayed flight
  8. got to my new apartment by 11:45pm
  9. crashed late but still made it to work today
  10. replied to Tom Brevoort on my Cup O Joe blog post
  11. just now finished reviewing five new Marvel comic books coming out this Wednesday

With that said, you’ve got to pick up Iron Man: Legacy of Doom #3. It’s nuts. Liquid tentacles, Iron Man armor with ponytails, and a wiseass Merlin wearing a traditional Bavarian getup. We’re talking mind@#$% Iron Man. It’s awesome.

Comic Pick - Week 45 2007

Fantastic Four #551Fantastic Four #551 is so uncannily good that I can barely contain my affection for it. Black Panther is back, but it’s T’Challa from 75 years into the future. He’s joined by Namor as he warns the adventurous foursome of something bad they’re about to do. To top it off, they’ve brought along future Dr. Doom.

This issue is a huge contrast to last month’s space epic, in that it’s a suspenseful time travel thriller with a small spatial scope. The storytelling structure used by writer Dwanye McDuffie is borderline genius. In the beginning, we see Reed Richards 75 years in the future as he watches Doom break out of prison to travel into the past.

What does it all mean? If Reed watches the incident from the future, saying he remembers experiencing it in the past, does that mean that the horrible future foretold by Namor, Panther, and Doom will occur anyway? I don’t know. All I know is that this issue is the exact opposite of horrible and I love it.