(by terrible I mean one that I don’t like. I just don’t get on with Ostrander’s writing)

I like the Steve Niles, Steven T Seagal, Paul Pope and Peter Milligan suggestions though. I always wanted to write a Swamp Thing run where he went a bit doolally and started having a secret identity by just putting on glasses and joined the Justice League – suddenly the Dan Slott suggestion is looking more workable.

2. If you could bring ONE member of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League back to life, who would it be and why?
Blue Beetle. He was fun & I miss him.

3. Who would most likely win in a game of chess (presuming no cheating) – Hawkeye or Green Arrow?
I’m thinking Ollie. He’s older, craftier & less prone to distraction than Clint.

4. Who can do more push-ups – John Stewart or Tim Drake?
No contest — John Stewart. Dude’s fully grown & was a Marine.

5. Who is the better magician – John Constantine or Zatanna?
Zatanna. She has actual powers & has never sent anyone to a loony bin.

6. Which member of the original Justice League of America is most likely to own a cat?
If we’re just talking members of the original JLA (before the Detroit era), Red Tornado. If we’re limiting it to the original 7, The Martain Manhunter. Wonder Woman is second, because she’s a girl. Girls like cats.

7. Come up with a scientific explanation for Spider-Man’s Spider-Sense.
Personally, I’m still trying to figure out why Pete doesn’t shoot webs out of his rectum (Maybe he does & has just never admitted it to anyone).

8. Who is smarter – Hank Pym or Amadeus Cho?
Can’t really answer this one, as I have no idea who Amadeus Cho is. I gather from the comments above that he’s a Marvel character, but I’m reading very little of their line these days. Am I missing anything?

9. Who would be the best (realistic, so no Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, etc.) choice to write a new Swamp Thing series?
I was going to say Brian K. Vaughn (yes, I know he wrote it before), but I REALLY like Mutt’s Ostrander/Mandrake suggestion.

10. Who is deader – the Wasp or Jean Grey?
I would guess Jean. Because really — once you bring her back, what is left to do with her except kill her again? Janet still has more story potential.

2. Rocket Red. Because all the others are going to get brought back by someone eventually, but no one remembers Dimitri.

3. Hawkeye. Green Arrow would refuse to use his king or queen- bunch of fat cats.

4. Tim Drake.

5. Constantine.

6. J’onn.

7. The radiation from the spiderbite left a recurring buzzing in his head. He’s always in trouble, so it just seems like he can sense danger.

8. Pym.

9. G. Willow Wilson

10. Wasp.

7. In addition to heightened animal instincts, Spider-Man’s sense of proprioception (awareness of body and its relation to environment) has been increased.

2. If you could bring ONE member of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League back to life, who would it be and why?
Blue Beetle, because J’onn died too recently and I’d prefer to keep both Dibney’s together regardless of what side of the life/death barrier they are on.

3. Who would most likely win in a game of chess (presuming no cheating) – Hawkeye or Green Arrow?
Green Arrow. His past as a rich guy and politician probably gave him more long-term strategic ability.

4. Who can do more push-ups – John Stewart or Tim Drake?
John Stewart. He’s a Marine, it’s what they do.

5. Who is the better magician – John Constantine or Zatanna?
Constantine. He has more diversity in his magical abilities. Zatanna’s backwards talking thing is more powerful, but requires less real skill. It’s like Dr. Strange and Scarlet Witch.

6. Which member of the original Justice League of America is most likely to own a cat?
J’onn. Icould totally see him sitting in a big chair, eating chocos and petting his cat.

7. Come up with a scientific explanation for Spider-Man’s Spider-Sense.
When sitting on a web a spider is incredibly sensitive to vibrations which tell it when something has fallen in. This ability is magnified in Peter, helping him sense vibrations in the air and ground. His subconscious works overtime separating the normal vibrations from danger and alerting him of the latter.

8. Who is smarter – Hank Pym or Amadeus Cho?
Cho. Pym has a wider knowledge base due to his experience, but Cho has more raw intellect.

9. Who would be the best (realistic, so no Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, etc.) choice to write a new Swamp Thing series?
Paul Pope. Could you just imagine the swampy strangeness he could think up?

10. Who is deader – the Wasp or Jean Grey?
Wasp, because she was more recent.

2. If you could bring ONE member of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League back to life, who would it be and why?
Blue Beetle was easily my favorite, but I feel his death accomplished something, ditto Mister Miracle, so I’m going with Ice.

3. Who would most likely win in a game of chess (presuming no cheating) – Hawkeye or Green Arrow?
Hawkeye. Man’s been a leader for a longer time, he knows how to use his resources.

4. Who can do more push-ups – John Stewart or Tim Drake?
Tim. Yeah, I know John was in the army or marines back in the day, but Tim’s in his prime and he’s training to replace Batman.

5. Who is the better magician – John Constantine or Zatanna?
Zatanna, she does more real magic and she looks better doing it.

6. Which member of the original Justice League of America is most likely to own a cat?
Barry. Clean, single (at least in the beginning) guy with no time for a dog… definitely got a pet personality.

7. Come up with a scientific explanation for Spider-Man’s Spider-Sense.
I’m from the Humanities, so… I’m going to leave this to better trained minds.

8. Who is smarter – Hank Pym or Amadeus Cho?
Pym. At least if we’re talking scientific genius.

9. Who would be the best (realistic, so no Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, etc.) choice to write a new Swamp Thing series?
Chris Sims.

10. Who is deader – the Wasp or Jean Grey?
Wasp. Jean Grey coming back from the dead is basically her thing, so… Wasp is more dead.

Batman. Because his “death” was stupider than Ted’s (and that’s saying something).

3. Who would most likely win in a game of chess (presuming no cheating) – Hawkeye or Green Arrow?
I see this game ending with the board flying in the air and both of them shooting an arrow through the other one’s king while in the air.

6. Which member of the original Justice League of America is most likely to own a cat?
J’onn

1. Explain why Kyle Rayner would try to punch Deathstroke in Identity Crisis #3.
As with all the others, first thought that came to mind was “because it’s the last thing he’d be expected to do, and Deathstroke is never open to the expected.”

2. If you could bring ONE member of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League back to life, who would it be and why?
Blue Beetle, hands down. And pardon me for a snark, but I think Metzler and the rest that so screwed with the characters of JLI should be done like the husband from the end of the original Stepford Wives.

3. Who would most likely win in a game of chess (presuming no cheating) – Hawkeye or Green Arrow? Ollie would take him, as long as Hawkeye didn’t get him too upset with over-the-board banter. Ollie’s too likely in that case to flip the board and leave, even if winning.

4. Who can do more push-ups – John Stewart or Tim Drake?
Another answer that was obvious enough – Tim, because Batman wouldn’t let him.

5. Who is the better magician – John Constantine or Zatanna? Zatanna

6. Which member of the original Justice League of America is most likely to own a cat? Martian Manhunter, for the same reasons everyone else immediately thought.

7. Come up with a scientific explanation for Spider-Man’s Spider-Sense. highly acute motion sense like that of many arthopods (insects, spiders, scorpions, etc.), plus he doesn’t realize it, but he’s got 6 tiny eyes on the back of his neck, also from the spider bite.

8. Who is smarter – Hank Pym or Amadeus Cho? Pym, because his goof-ups are more consistantly a threat to the entire planet.

9. Who would be the best (realistic, so no Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, etc.) choice to write a new Swamp Thing series? I wouldn’t mind seeing JMS do it.

10. Who is deader – the Wasp or Jean Grey? Oooohhh, a toughy. Given Jean’s history, I think wasp will come back first, as there will be much treading lightly around Jean’s return for as long as possible.

2. Gail Simone already fixed the big one, so it’s a toss-up between Max Lord and Captain Atom, both of whom need some major repair after some recent mishandling.

3. Whichever one doesn’t get pissed off and knock the table over first. Probably Ollie.

4. Tim Drake. He doesn’t have to carry the weight of being incredibly dull on his shoulders.

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6. Black Canary, assuming she still counts.

7. Magnetism

8. I don’t know who Amadeus Cho is, but assuming he never smacked around his wife I’m voting for him.

9. I don’t really know the character, so I’m going to say Judd Winick. Just to annoy people.

10. Jean. We at least know that she’s dead. -ish.

2. If you could bring ONE member of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League back to life, who would it be and why?
Martian Manhunter. Sentimental reasons mostly.

3. Who would most likely win in a game of chess (presuming no cheating) – Hawkeye or Green Arrow?
Green Arrow. He seems like more of an intellectual, and plus Hawkeye was just a thug before joining the good guys.

4. Who can do more push-ups – John Stewart or Tim Drake?
Stewart probably. Military background. I would have to assume Batman’s training regimens are more creative than push-ups and jumping jacks.

5. Who is the better magician – John Constantine or Zatanna?
Zatanna can do pretty much anything by saying it backwards. Constantine has to work a lot harder than that, so skill-wise he’s probably better.

6. Which member of the original Justice League of America is most likely to own a cat?
J’onn again. He’s like Data in that way.

7. Come up with a scientific explanation for Spider-Man’s Spider-Sense.
It’s a translation to fictional superpowers of the ability to sense vibrations in a web that a spider can have.

8. Who is smarter – Hank Pym or Amadeus Cho?
As everyone else has said, Cho is only the 7th smartest. Hank is generally portrayed as being in the top 3 or 4 – Reed, Tony, Victor, Hank.

9. Who would be the best (realistic, so no Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, etc.) choice to write a new Swamp Thing series?
Now that Straczynski is out of his Marvel exclusive, and has already expressed a desire to do work with the former DCU characters in the Brave and the bold, I would say him.

10. Who is deader – the Wasp or Jean Grey?
The Wasp because nobody has ever really cared about her. Not the case with Jean.

2. Ted Kord. I mean….yeah, no snark, so let’s just say “Ted Kord.”

3. Gotta go with Hawkeye. He’s been a leader of the (West Coast) Avengers, as well as the Thunderbolts (I think?), and he just seems to be smarter than he lets himself believe he is, sometimes.

4. Tim Drake. John Stewart can likely bench press more, but push-ups are more about muscular endurance, not strength. Being trained by a guy like Bat-Man has gotta be good for the endurance. (wait, that sounds….oh, well.)

5. Zatanna is more powerful, but I’d say Constantine is better. He seems to do a lot more with less power.

6. Aquaman. I know, he lives underwater, but out of the original League, he honestly seems like the “cat person” to me.

7. Spidey’s irradiated blood is actually slightly out of synch with the quantum flow of time, keeping him constantly in “touch” with the immediate future on subconscious level. When that immediate future is threatened, the connection is interfered with, creating the “buzzing” sensation that he interprets as his “spidey sense.”

8. Cho is smarter for short periods of time, but “needs food badly.” Pym works harder in short bursts or wild creativity, giving birth to things that are way ahead of their time. If Cho could fix his blood sugar problem, then he’d be the guy. For now, gotta go with Pym.

9. Steve Niles. He seems to be everywhere these days, but I’d really like to see him take a crack at it. Heck, he might even be able to talk Bernie into coming back for an issue or two.

10. Wasp. Jean Grey always comes back. No snark, it’s just that it seems to be more “the way things go” with the X-Men.

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