I’ve always been a big X-Men fan. The Animated Series came out when I was in 6th grade, and I’ve seen every episode multiple times, including at least 3 times I sat down and watched all 76 episodes in a row in a short span. I still have my VHS Tape, cup and placemat from the Pizza Hut promo. It was also one of the few series I read regularly at the time, I had all the issues of Uncanny from 281 (coincides with X-Men, Vol 2 #1) all the way up through and past Jean and Scott’s wedding to the Age of Apocalypse and most of the corresponding X-Men issues until I lost interest in comics the first time.

In the spirit of Avengers vs. X-men, for this week and next week, I’m gonna draft my own Avengers and X-Men teams respectively.

Most of my exposure to the ‘A’ team was through their West Coast Branch, because for some reason I bought a copy of Avengers West Coast #1 simply because I could when I was a kid. I’m gonna try to avoid the big names and go with a more offbeat list. While I could just use the Fantastic Four and Spider Man (really, look it up), here’s my list.

The last time I actually paid for music or bought a CD was in high school when I was a member of the Sam Goody club. I’ve been downloading mp3s since before there was Napster, back when you needed to trade ftp site logins. So how do I show my love for a band? I actually pay to go see them live or buy their merch. So that’s what I based my ratings on. Yes, I know I have the musical tastes of a 16 year old girl.

There’s nothing worse than when something you love dies. But it’s all the worse when that thing is your favorite TV show, and it’s taken away from you prematurely.

I get very passionate about my TV shows. What can I say?

A good game should culminate in an epic final showdown. You just spent your whole playtime defeating armies of no named enemies, and now it’s time to finally come face to face with the leader of their evil machinations.

I haven’t actually played a lot of games you can “beat”. Well, at least not to completion. I kinda suck at video games.

Any good game should give the player a list of spells or abilities to use to take out the rampaging horde of random no named enemies in between them and ultimate victory.

It may be hard to believe, but there was a time when Nickelodeon wasn’t just reruns of SpongeBob and Dan Schneider tween-sitcoms. Not that either are bad, I actually like both of the just fine. But when I was a kid, Nickelodeon was in the middle of a children’s television renaissance, redefining the very nature of what a childrens’ show was and could be. Some of the greatest shows ever came from the slime factory in the late 80’s and early 90’s.

I was never much of a gamer, the list below is pretty much every console game I ever played. This is mostly because my console collection went from Atari 2600 when I was a kid, to NES for like my 8th birthday, and then I didn’t get anything else besides a Game Gear until I bought myself a PS2 my Junior year of college, and that was just so I could practice DDR at home before making an ass of myself at the arcade. And when I did get a game it was like one from the clearance rack once a year at christmas. So I missed a lot of good games. But those few I did manage to play had some great music. My list is all things I can hum off the top of my head.