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"Well... nothing." Jounouchi admitted. "That's part of the reason we're going to find him. His gang seemingly disbanded after the whole yo-yo thing, so we're going in cautious, but not with a huge amount of backup for now."

((Yeah, but it had been a while and I felt like rewatching it too, so having a new way to look at the film gave me an excuse to rewatch it. XD I will definitely be surprised if I come back having enjoyed Green Lantern too. The only superhero movie I'm expecting to be worse than it is Cat Woman, because that was the biggest pile of s**t I've ever seen. Speaking of Star Wars while we're on the topic of Guardians: http://cheezburger.com/8286676224

If you're curious about starting on comics, a good idea might be to find a character you really like that has an ongoing series. Currently there's a Hawkeye, Black Widow, Nightcrawler, Storm, and Magneto series, though Hawkeye might've finished by now. It gives you more character investment without having to divide focus on a whole team, plus they usually don't have the complex end of the world plot lines, and start with their own side story that's easy to follow. Marvel comics are also really good at giving you enough info to understand references to other events and such. Then you'll probably inevitably find a character/reference to a storyline/team/situation that interests you enough to look into it, then you find another comic series that revolves around that to start, and it just keeps expanding from there. I'm still going through that process, constantly learning about the universe and finding new and old series or arcs to read. Another idea is if you're wanting to read more into the full universe, read the major event books. Modern Marvel events started with Avengers Disassembled and kind of ends that 'era' at Avengers VS X-Men. Since then they've done Age of Ultron, Battle of the Atom (more for X-Men than the full universe), Infinity, Inhumanity, and are currently doing Original Sin, which all tend to stand better on their own than being connected like the last ten years of Marvel events (except Infinity and Inhumanity are completely connected and follow one after the other, Infinity also being the event I was just talking about with Ronan). Events tend to be from five-ten issues for the full story, really show you the place of most main groups of the Marvel Universe, define how characters and teams end up where they are during their ongoing series, and if you find a character or team in the event that really interests you, their ongoing series will have bonus, side material going more in depth of their involvement in the event. But anyway, if you try for the events, I suggest doing the big ten-year 'era' of the new millennium first. Events for that are, in this order: Avengers Disassembled, House of M (my favorite), Civil War, The Initiative, World War Hulk, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, Siege, and Avengers VS X-Men.

I kind of felt that way for a moment too, but thinking about it, Marvel's already tried creating tons of new interesting female characters, but no one ever has any interest in them. It's a mixture of Marvel's old code of comics and the current fanbase that makes it really hard for them to do diversity. No one wants new characters anymore, so they just have to replace the old white male ones with women and persons of color and hopefully LGBT persons at some point. So while I'd prefer Marvel releasing more big tier female characters instead of replacing the big tier male characters with them, I can see why they're doing it, and prefer it as a diversity strategy over doing nothing at so they can maximize profit. I'm certainly not offended at the idea of a female Thor, just wish it didn't have to come to that in the first place. As for Falcon being the new Cap, though I'm sad to see Steve Rogers go, I actually like Sam Wilson more than him, so am pretty ecstatic. XD

Compared to the Gamora I've known, she was very kind. The fact that she seemed to always be the first wanting to take caution and save people and such, that just seemed odd to me. Then again, that role wouldn't really fit with any of the Guardians except maybe Groot, but he doesn't particularly have the vocabulary to take it too easily. I'm just bothered they stuck it not only with the girl, but with 'the most dangerous woman in the galaxy.' I could see her being sickened by Thanos and wanting to stop him/get revenge, but it seemed a little too quick and easy that she threw off all his conditioning and was parading to be the hero most of all the characters. I like her ends justify the means mentality, but not so much how many heroic means she has. As for Groot, I was pleased and surprised with how much depth they gave him. I saw an interview with Vin Diesel saying he would do like fifteen takes and the executives would say it was perfect, but then he'd ask for twenty more to give the character as much depth and emotion as he could possibly convey. I have confidence they can keep portraying that. Hahaha, thinking about it it was pretty much like giving the girl his sex organs. XD))

Jounouchi shook his head, "I'm not sure. Maybe he just discovered his lineage or something. Maybe he was preparing this whole time. The guy does not drop a grudge easily."

((Obviously I cannot compare Catwoman to Green Lantern since I haven't seen the ladder. I will say the characters were just plain bad. Fairly cardboardy, but had enough just awfulness to make them not completely dull. The story was also just WTF. As for Daredevil, it's been a while, but I remember it just being completely white bread. Exactly fulfilled the 'needs' of a superhero movie with absolutely nothing more to it, so it was exceedingly boring. Except Bullseye. He was pretty tight, even though he didn't hold a candle to his comic counterpart. Bullseye makes everything better. Also you should totally read Dark Reign at some point now that I'm thinking about it, because baddies replace the Avengers, and Bullseye becomes the new Hawkeye, while Wolverine's son becomes the new Wolverine. Then Wolverine's son proceeds to hit on Bullseye while manipulating his pheromones and tormenting him. It was pure gold. XD

When I listed current character comics, I was an idiot and didn't even thing to list the 'mainstream' ones that are always going. So of course there's Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, and Wolverine. Plus there's old ones and probably current ones I forgot. I would just think of a few of your favorite movie characters and look up to see if they have a series, old or new. You can find virtually anything on Amazon, and comic stores often have old issues. I was just at one that had the whole Falcon four-issue series for $8 and the Vision and Scarlet Witch 12-issue for $12, both of which are old school. I was very happy. One word of warning though. I wouldn't start with the Hawkeye series. It's very... different, and doesn't give you a good idea of what Marvel comics are like. It's not bad, just very artsy and focuses more on Clint and his personal problems rather than fighting or anything. Also the characters feel extremely flat to me, but a lot of l people like it and say it's just part of the artistic style.

Yes, I hope eventually fans become more open to new characters. I mean the closest they've done so far with some degree of success is the new Ms. Marvel. The original became Captain Marvel, and was replaced with a completely new Muslim character. Yes, she still had to take an old title, but otherwise her personality, origin, powers, and everything are completely different. She's pretty awesome, but it isn't like her comics have been flying off the shelves. As for male Thor, I like him and like having him on the team, but he's never been one of my absolute favorites, and he's had so many series and been in so much, I'm really just kind of tired of him for now, and welcome a breath of fresh air.

Yeah, I wonder how much my view of movie Gamora was twisted because of comic Gamora. She felt rushed and over-redeemed to me, but is that because I'm used to her more chaotic comic persona, or actual bad movie development? I can't tell. But anyway, as for the 'in progress' thing, that's how I definitely felt about Drax, where's compared to the others, Gamora seemed to make 'too much progress.' Vin Diesel is surprisingly awesome, even though Fast and Furious is just ugh. XD))

"I'm best with my fists, but I can handle a knife." Jounouchi replied, seeming slightly uncomfortable with the idea, "Only guns I've used were arcade ones... and those blaster things you made us use in Death T. Though I was pretty good with them."

((Ugh, sounds like the perfect amount of boredom then. And yeah, Daredevil and even Elektra were super boring, I hardly remember their personalities or if they even had any. I mean... Elektra is a deadly assassin without a lot of morals, yet they somehow made her a typical, sweet love interest who just happened to be good at some fighting.

Granted Hawkeye is way more interesting in comics. He's no where near as quiet. Actually quite the loudmouth, making wisecracks and constantly questioning authority. He and Cap have a great relationship, because at first they joined the team at the same time, and Cap was put in charge of their squad (which also included Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver), and Hawkeye questioned and fought him for so long about it. Then they finally gained a mutual respect and friendship, and for a while when Cap 'died,' everyone wanted Hawkeye to take his mantle, but he refused. Black Widow and Loki are two on my to-read list, as they've just put the first issues on Marvel Unlimited, so I can't give an opinion, but have heard really good things about both of them. Cap and Thor have so many series you can start wherever you want. Just look up their list with some descriptions on Wikipedia and see what interests you the most. Sounds good with Amazon. I don't like them either, but man they are so convenient. You can also buy individual issues or a lot of series have omnibuses. That's cool you got vouchers though. I ended up with a $100 Amazon gift card recently from taking online surveys. I'm going to use it to upgrade my drawing tablet from cheapest of the cheap to the best non-professional version. =)

Yeah, I really hope she has a different personality, purpose, and origin than Thor. It's kind of weird that they're even calling her Thor, since that's his actual name. But I've read it will involve the original Thor, that she'll be really mysterious and he'll be trying to figure out who she is and where she came from, so that seems interesting. I would start with an older Thor series that already has a good track record though, since this is so new and unknown. Oh, I miss Host Club. I should give the manga a shot too, though I've been told it gets worse after the point where the anime ends. Too dramatic apparently.

Fast definitely isn't my thing either, though neither is Riddick. Too much action without enough plot for me.))

"It's possible he could've gotten ahold of a gun, but he's never had one before. Definitely would have a knife at least, and maybe a taser." Jounouchi shivered as he remembered the latter weapon, "I'd say we should each have a knife as backup." he would probably not use one himself, but decided it was smartest to have one on him just in case,"Then probably something non-lethal. What about a stun gun or a pistol with rubber bullets?" he looked to Kaiba, "Do you know how to use either?"

((Oh, I didn't actually see the Elektra movie, I was just talking about her as a character in Daredevil. XD That's another one on my need-to-watch-but-don't-want-to.

Hawkeye's arrows are also way more interesting in comics. They do all kinds of things besides just normal and exploding. He has freezing ones, ones that trap people in goo, fire ones, tracking ones, electrical ones, acid, boomerang, sonic, smoke, nets, flares, and even one with usb drives on them so he can shook them into a computer port and corrupt it from afar. Plus he's amazing at hand-to-hand combat and often uses like flying scooters and stuff on missions. He's also the only character I've seen so far who never seems to get annoyed with Deadpool, and actually gets along with and encourages his zaniness. Even the few friends Deadpool has are always exasperated with him.

You're kind of making me want to get back into manga, haha. I'd definitely give Host Club a read. Also reminds me I've been waiting for years to finish Yami no Matsuei and Okane ga Nai. Wonder if they ever came off hiatus. Never was able to get into Loveless myself, but I only watched the terrible and confusing anime with a completely unsatisfactory ending that didn't answer any questions, so if the manga's better I'd give it a shot. Kind of hated the characters though. Sometimes I read so many Japanese online comics (just little one or two-page ones) on Pixiv I start reading right-to-left on English comics. XD

Yeah, just overall not my series.))

Jounouchi's eyes widened as he looked over the arms room. He'd never seen so many weapons in one place, "...is this even legal?" he asked dumbly. It wasn't like he himself ever took much care to obey the law, and he knew Kaiba had used his money to perform many illegal activities in the past. Still, he was curious.

((By the way, I rewatched Guardians today. I paid close attention to Ronan, and also tried to view Gamora with fresh eyes, now that I knew she wouldn't fulfill my comic characterization expectations. We were both right on Ronan. At the beginning he said he wouldn't forgive the Kree for the damage they had done in the war and for killing his ancestors. However, he also said things like how he followed old Kree tradition where they slaughter those who do not follow their culture, and near the end said the Xandarians had false gods or something to that effect. He definitely specifically insulted their gods. As for Gamora, while her occasional self-righteous attempts to convince the others to do the right thing got on my nerves, she grew on me to the point where I now like her more than Drax. He just doesn't have enough to him for me to latch onto; I merely enjoy his role and presence. Rocket also grew on me more, so he's shifted above Peter to my second favorite.

Yami no Matsuei was very similar to Host Club, where the anime was amazing and ended at the perfect place, but in the manga, after the point where the anime ended, it went down hill. However, it was more the opposite in that it lost the wonderful darkness the series already had, become more standard fantasy, where's Host Club apparently became too dark. I checked a couple years ago about the manga and had read something similar, that it had done a tiny continuation in a magazine but then went back to hiatus, so looks like no progress on that front. As for Okane ga Nai, I used to adore it back when I was first getting into yaoi and such. It was the first hard core series I actually liked the characters and plot in, and it didn't feel like it was nothing but porn. However, after some maturation, distancing myself from liking typical anime tropes, and a lot of feminist education, I'm kind of afraid to try it again and that I'd hate it now. I mean, the two main characters fit strongly into the extreme seme and uke roles, and it definitely glorifies rape and Stockholm Syndrome. I feel like I've also outgrown the 'anatomically incorrect but pretty' art style that so many manga have, and the art was one thing I always adored about the series. But I shouldn't avoid something I used to love; I should find out how I now stand on it. I still have all the manga that was out when I was reading it, so I should start it over and see how far it's continued. Haha, yeah, I think the only character I liked at all was the girl who wore fake ears. XD But if you end up finding it gets better, let me know and I'll give it a shot. I think I am going to try to get more into manga again. I'm going to start with one I downloaded recently that 4Chan recommended, because it's apparently extremely dark, which I'm in the mood for. Then I'll probably look into Okane ga Nai and Yami no Matsuei again, and go to Host Club from there. I do think Host Club anime found the perfect solution to ending early though, with a plot that felt nice and resolved, but is still in a place where it could easily pick up and continue with a new series.))

Jounouchi chuckled, "Don't worry, we wouldn't do that to you." he pat Kaiba's back for a moment, before seeming to catch himself being too friendly with the guy. He quickly put his hand back down.

((When paying closer attention to Ronan, I'd say that although the revenge thing was stated first, it wasn't really mentioned anymore after that, while the cultural and religious stuff was noted a few more times. Either way, I feel like they should've just went one way or the other and given it just a tad bit more development. Haha, I still like Drax though; he's cute.

Yeah, I definitely adore dark things, but not so much when it was something lighthearted that turned dark, unless it did so in a really thoughtful, effective way. I did a quick search on Yami no Matsuei and Okane ga Nai status. Looks like Yami no Matsuei is still in the same place as last I checked. Okane ga Nai had quite a long hiatus after volume 8, but has picked up again recently. I too am actually fascinated by rape/Stockholm Syndrome type things, but the thing with Okane ga Nai is it is definitely a love story. Rape is hardly acknowledged and Stockholm Syndrome aren't addressed at all. The story is essentially a story of a rape victim being held hostage by a man who is infatuated by him, and a number of people are aware of this situation and are friends with both of them, not taking it too seriously. And the victim is too afraid/uncertain to try to gain freedom, which would be fine as a character flaw, except the story is definitely going in the path of the victim falling for the captor and this being a completely good, natural thing. It is a story of Stockholm Syndrome that is pretending to be a basic love story. I like that kind of dark content, but I like it to be addressed as what it is, and not written in a way that makes the author and reader see it as a good thing. But I digress. Speaking of such topics, I started the manga 4Chan recommended yesterday and oh my god it is amazing. It is exactly about captor/victim and rape, but in a far darker, more real way. It doesn't make the rapist out to be this wonderful seme. He is legitimately insane and scary, and the victim goes through real struggles, trying to escape, then simply trying to survive and not give his captor the satisfaction of breaking him. It is a manga overall, but the prologue is written in novel form. I read the first five chapters and absolutely adored it. The art is fantastic, the characters all feel real. Even the side ones just seem like nice people doing their jobs. You not only sympathize with but also empathize with the victim, and he is an intelligent, confident, somewhat snobby gay man, but who doesn't by any means want to be with his captor. I liked it so much I want to buy it now, but it turns out it isn't a typical serialized manga. It's an independent project by two people who I believe are bilingual, as there are Japanese and English versions as original print, plus they have a team translating and printing it in a variety of other languages. They sell each chapter hardcover with beautiful art, but it's $12 each... It's also still ongoing, and there are well over ten chapters and side stories combined by now. I'm going to finish the chapters I was able to get ahold of for free, then decide from there how much I want to spend. It's so good though I'm honestly tempted to just start buying two a month. The website they are sold on is called Guilt Pleasure, and the creators say they specifically started the series because they wanted to make a higher quality yaoi series, in terms of art, story, and character development. Anyway, the series is called In These Words. If you want to give it a try, I'll see if I can find a link for the download I found, which has the first eight chapters as well as some side stories.))

Jounouchi nodded, looking around, but not stupid enough to just run over and start touching things, "Are tasers easy to use? You think it's something we could just pick up right away?"

((Yeah, I prefer the revenge argument too. The cultural/religious one could be interesting... if it wasn't a space-fairing group of terrorists who go to all kinds of different planets. Oh well. Yeah, I did like how surprisingly funny Drax was. Gamora too. The other three you expected to be funny, and they definitely delivered. And yes, I had seen that honest trailer. XD I laughed when they just started defending it.

I have one friend who finished it and said it got awful because it was an overly dramatic love triangle with suddenly very whiny teenagers. But I'll still give it a shot eventually. And I know, I was just so blown away by it; it's definitely the highest quality yaoi series I've ever read. And I finished the chapters that were available to me and there was such a twist I couldn't believe it! It threw everything else on its head and completely changed the story line. And yes, it does have a story line, a surprisingly complex one. The rape porn is only a very significant part of it, but honestly the story wouldn't feel as deep and just... holy s**t without the graphic parts. It's a very quick read too, since it's only eight chapters and a couple bonus ones so far, not eight volumes. And yeah, it was one of those things with Okane ga Nai where I was at a point where I understood the way it was representing rape and captivity was wrong, but it didn't outright offend me. I was too fascinated by it. At the time I really hadn't found a good non-con series, just fanfiction, so it was an exciting find for me, and I had a friend who was really into it, so I had someone to fan over it with. Plus the main character was so similar to one of my originals I'd created for a roleplay I was very into at the time, so it was like having a series revolve around him all the sudden. XD I do actually like the characters in it (except the main seme). They are a bit flat and have some of the annoying tropes you often find in manga, but I still like them. My problem isn't their personalities or humanization; it's just the overall 'feel' of where the story is going that the author portrays. I really do need to give it another read and form a second opinion. I do remember near where I stopped reading they did an arc on drag queens and trans women working in the entertainment industry, and that was really progressively portrayed for Japan, and that made me happy. Okane ga Nai does seem too lighthearted for the scenarios it portrays, but it's not a full-out comedy or fluffy romance either. It definitely has its dark moments. I just wish it wouldn't make the rapist out to be a sympathetic character and have the side characters joke about the situation.))