Tony Stark will be played by Robert Downey, Jr.

I think the choice inspired.

Because of his drug problem and Tony Stark's alcoholism?

Sorry, can't see it. RDj in armor?

Yep. That's exactly it.

He is an incredibly gifted actor, and I am sure he will be great in the part. After all, the biggest thing Hugh Jackman had been in before the X-Men was Oklahoma! on The West End.

Iron Man will be a stunt double combined with cg anyway, so no worries there. The pathos is the most important aspect of Tony Stark's character, and Downey, Jr. can bring it, and some.

The whole armor/CG/stunt double is why I think the movie will have problems. I think audiences will have a hard time relating to a suit of armor when then cannot see a face behind it. Some of that in Ghost Rider as well, but when Johnny Blaze becomes GR, he is essentially a different entity - not so with IM.

Have my doubts about the movie.

Also, can't get RDj out of my head in the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School.

And I can't get Rodney Dangerfield's dive out of my head.

The armor/cg/stunt double argument is moot, I believe; especially after the success of the Spider-Man films.

We'll see - I think I suit of armor requires more suspension of disbelief than spandex. A mask/helmet that covers your whole face is a take away - hence why the X-Men films avoided them.

Spiderman did pull it off, but SP is arguable the second or third most popular/well known super hero ever - I wouldn't put IM in the top ten.

Much to my dismay...

If I had to list my top ten of most popular heroes ever (looking at total comic book history), I think it might go something like this. Singles, not teams, which I why I leave off the FF.

1. Superman
2. Batman
3. Spiderman
4. Captain America
5. Wolverine (even though he is more recent)
6. Hulk
7. Flash
8. Green Lantern
9. Thor
10. Wonder Woman

9 & 10 are iffy, but make it on sheer durability. Yours?

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1. Superman ("It was Krypton that made me Superman, but it is the Earth that makes me human.")
2. Spider-Man (With great power comes great responsibility.)
3. Hulk ("Hulk Smash!")
4. Conan The Barbarian (Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis...)
5. Batman ("I want you to do me a favour: Tell your friends about me!")
6. Wolverine ("Bub!")
7. Thor ("By the brizzled beard of Heimdal!")
8. Green Lantern ("In brightest day, in darkest night...")
9. The Thing ("It's clobberin' time!")
10. The Silver Surfer ("I command the Power Cosmic!")

I also have a soft spot for Rom The Space Knight.

Even though Conan the Barbarian's origin lies in Robert E Howard's pulp novels, "The Savage Sowrd of Conan" comics from the 1970's and 1980's by Roy Thomas and John Buscema were incredible.

There are no words to describe my love for Superman. I was watching Smallville the other day (shit show, generally, but with few sprinkles of genius in between - kinda like me), and was explaning to someone Superman no. 75, the infamous Death of Superman issue from 1992. I was on the verge of tears.

Someone should really put me out of my misery.

I actually don't like Superman all that much - the whole invulnerability thing kind of ruins it for me. And I think capes are silly

My favs (as opposed to who I think is popular) are, in no particular order:

Wolverine (the best anti-hero of all time)
Green Lantern (my only nod to DC)
Spiderman (a New Yorker!)
Havok (I like the fact that he is never fully in control of his powers)
Colossus (transform into steel? Oh yeah)
Shadowcat (hey, a female Jewish superhero whose power isn't the ability to use credit cards)
Punisher (no powers, just an asskicker)
Daredevil (love the blind/tormented by religion thing)
Magneto (I know, he's a bad guy - and he wears a cape. Exception proves the rule)

I'm heavy on the mutants.

Oh, sorry; I misinterpreted your original list; and made a list of my favourite superheroes. Characters like Deadpool and Cable are also immensely popular; the former is probably the most popular mutant character after Wolvie.

I love Kitty Pryde; and I love Colossus, too.

Never really liked The Punisher; I prefer my heroes with super-powers. It's much more difficult to write a decent boy-scout character like Superman or Cyclops: Batman and Wolvie are easy - give them a couple of "issues" and let them go berserk (though Batman has been granted an incredible weight in the past 20 years).

I used to love Havok's old costume; the one with the rings coming out of his mask.

Have you been reading the new Civil War crossover? It sounds pretty cool.

No, not reading civil war I left all my comics in shrinkwrapped storage in NYC.

I don't know where to buy comics in Turkey - and I think my wife would kill me if I spent a lot of money on them But I have been reading the Marvel Database Project Wiki quite a bit.

Same here; awesome stuff that. I am definitely buying the Civil War paperback.

Do you know when it is coming out in PB?

No idea; I would think in about six months, minimum. It hasn't finished yet, I don't think.