In theory the Sentry is a really cool superhero. But unfortunately the reality is that when the Sentry actually makes an appearance in an actual comic book he is usually quite lame. Why does Marvel continue to use this character? No one can seem to write him correctly. The best and most recent example of this is in the very poorly written World War Hulk storyline when he fought the Hulk. He is supposed to possess the power of “a million exploding suns”, but yet, when we see him “unleash his power like never before” (in Reed Richard’s words) he merely destroys a few city blocks on Manhattan Island and even normal mortals are left alive and uninjured standing right next to ground zero. Given what we previously knew about the Sentry he should have utterly destroyed the Hulk in a one on one confrontation, even in a simple, not to mention predictable slug-fest (which is pretty much what the much anticipated fight between the two powerhouses turned out to be). Why didn’t the Sentry unleash his other powers on the Hulk? Why didn’t the Sentry calm down the Hulk (much like Reed Richards’ synthetic version of the Sentry’s calming effect almost did to the Hulk just a couple of issues before)?

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This week we answer some of our readers’ Lord of the Rings related questions:

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It’s been eleven years since Mega Man 8. Whoever thought the original series was dead was dead wrong. Mega Man 9 will be one of the most anticipated releases for the Wii, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 for this fall. The promotional art for Mega Man 9 looks as poor as that for Mega Man 1. If all else follows suite, we will have a great game on our hands. Dr. Wily is at it once again as Dr. Light is blamed for world-wide reploid tragedy. The game follows the same design as the old Mega Mans with our blue hero fighting 8 reploids before entering Wily’s castle. There is a major twist to Mega Man 9 though. The first woman boss to ever battled will make an appearance in this Mega Man. Her name is “Splash Woman”. No one knows as of yet what she splashes, but we hope that it’s got nothing to do with her gender. Other interesting reploid names include “Galaxy Man”, “Concrete Man”, and “Plug Man”. We hope that Galaxy Man brings back memories of Gemini Man’s level. We will keep a close eye on this release as we always have love for the Mega Man series (check out our top 10 Mega Man Bosses of all time list). Maybe one of the bosses in Mega Man 9 will knock out one of the bosses already on our list.

It seems like every week we get some hate mail from a guy who calls himself MaximoDestructo (a clever play on DestructoMaximo’s name). This week Destructo decided to reply to one of his more venomous emails…

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Who would’ve ever thought that Old-Wizard would ever compile a top 5 Sega Genesis games article? More importantly who would’ve ever thought that Old-Wizard would put together any positive list about the Sega Genesis? Over the past couple of months, we felt like we’ve been too hard on Sega (not really, but a number of emails have asked us if there there were any Sega games that we actually liked). We thought about it for a while and reminded ourselves that the Sega Genesis did have good games. In this article, we will go through what we think the five best were. We still think the SNES was the superior system, but we are reminded that the Sega Genesis did had some good moments. Read More »

Old-Wizard’s recent Thor vs Superman article has been featured on the Podcast “Slacker and the Man“. We both listened to the show over the weekend and we think that it’s great. These guys talk about everything from comic books, to science fiction shows, to various avian genitalia (a topic of great interest to us here at Old-Wizard). Be sure to check it out.

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In case you haven’t heard yet, there’s a brand new Hulk running around smashing people in the Marvel Universe. He’s just like the regular Hulk, except he’s red and he gives off gamma radiation. Oh, and he uses a big gun. The Red Hulk has already defeated the Abomination, She-Hulk, Iron Man, the Green Hulk, and most ridiculously, knocked out the Watcher. Yes, you read that right, he knocked out the Watcher. And now it looks like he’ll be going toe-to-toe with everyone’s favorite Norse thunder god, Thor in Hulk #5.

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Paperboy and Ghosts n Goblins consistently gets bashed here on Old-Wizard (just check out our top 20 worst video games of all time). We not only dislike the games, but we dislike the heroes of those games for making the games even more painful to play. When thinking of weak heroes, the Paperboy from “Paperboy” and Arthur from “Ghosts n Goblins” come to mind. Who would win in fight between these two “heroes” though? This was a fun topic of conversation for us at Old-Wizard. These two characters would lose to all other characters except each other. But for us, we had to pick the paperboy as being the stronger of the two. This probably seems ironic seeing that Arthur is supposed to be a medieval hero. How can he not beat out a kid paperboy?

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As the avid Old-Wizard reader knows, a while back we released a “Top Ten Most Powerful Superheroes” list. And last week we decided to defend some of our choices (especially in picking Thor as the number one most powerful superhero over Superman, which seemed to have angered many of our readers). You can read that article here. But as many emails pointed out last week, we never actually discussed why the Silver Surfer was lower than Thor on our list. Makes sense… Superman was number three on our list, while the Surfer was our number two pick. So this week we decided to break down the reasons why we chose to place Thor at number one on our most powerful superhero list over the Silver Surfer. This was actually the hardest decision that we had to make on the entire list, and we argued about it for hours (well, we’ve been arguing about this one since we were in high school) but we finally decided on making Thor the number one most powerful superhero of all time. And here are the reasons:

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It is a well known fact that we here at Old Wizard aren’t big fans of Sega. Its number one on our top 5 worst consoles list. We have Sonic on our worst video game characters list, and have fielded piles of hate mail from the hordes of unkempt, uncouth, and rather ostentatious Sega fan boys. Last week we addressed a few video responses to these lists and launched a rather secret, and very dangerous undercover investigative report (Read that post here). From what we surmised their ‘leader’, as much as any one man can lead this rabble, is known only by his moniker SonicmanO, and his hard-line views include Nintendo burning, Playstation mutilation, and Xbox smashing, among other ignoble activities. What we have learned will shock the frail minds of Sega fan boys everywhere. The very leader they have lined up behind, the man they charge into battle with (and have lost every battle with time and time again), does not, nor has he ever, owned a Sega platform! Read More »