Reports of my death have been mildly exagerated.

We posted several days ago about the death of Marvel Universe Online. With the MMO having been killed by Microsoft (the deep pocket), it looks as if the developer, Cryptic, is using the work done on the game to come up with a new super-hero MMO ala City of Heroes.

We wish them luck, but we're a little skeptical. After all, City of Heroes is still doing pretty well. A super-hero MMO that tries to compete against them is going to have to make one heck of a sales pitch to do so. Given that the comic-book (excuse us, graphic novel) fan-base Cryptic could have drawn upon with Marvel Universe isn't going to be there, we're wondering how the market will receive another non-familiar super-hero game. Yeah, we'd love to see Wonderboy face off against Nasty-Man, but it isn't the same as standing next to Wolverine and Havok as they blast the Sentinels into oblivion.

So to all you super-hero fans out there, we say... Excelsior!