Re: Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes.
A couple random thoughts about the series:
I like the fact that the Hulk isn't an idiot. He's most like the Green Scar here, only without Greg Pak's fanboying. I also like the idea of him trying to be a hero in his own right.
I'm not sure how I feel about Iron Man being the leader. It's pretty blantantly playing to the fact that Iron Man is the most popular Avenger right now. But I can think of much worse things to fanboy rage about.
According to Wikipedia, the mini-sodes will be shown on TV shortly after the premiere, combined so that 4 mini-sodes can form a full episode. It's a nessacary thing, since there's a crapload of material in these things. The problem is that I think they're ultimately going to suffer for it. While several of the episodes are interconnnected, they don't flow very well when played back-to-back. I mean, take Iron Man's episodes. You've got fifteen minutes of Iron Man fighting HYDRA, where he fights HYDRA Big Daddies using his technology, then he has a standoff with SHIELD over potential leaks in their organization. That's a good, solid adventure story, and makes for a decent episode on it's own...but wait! The whole thing was a scheme to free Baron Strucker, and now we have to see Nick Fury singlehandedly fight the Grim Reaper and Baron Strucker while fighting the effects of Strucker draining his life force! It's just awkward to watch, and I'm not sure how to get around that when you're showing them back-to-back. By my count, the only webisode series with good narative flow is Thor's. Though I admit that's unfair to say since the webisodes aren't done airing.
Finally, did anyone cry when Bucky died? Seriously, every forum I go to is like "BAAAAAAAW" and I'm just like "Bwa?" I admit that the episode certainly made the famous exploding rocket scene more tragic, but I couldn't really feel sad about it. It just seemed to fast, and I'm pretty confident they want to use Bucky again as the Winter Soldier. Then again, I cry pretty infrequenntly, so maybe I'm just too harsh? I dunno.