Here is the reference, btw.

Would someone make a manga copy of this whole comic?

@Keith Mowz
 
Awww, you gave me a sad. I loved that game…
 
-Lumino

@Dirty Bit  
@Daneasaur  
Basically they got bought out and made a hybrid Free to Play with the previous full access subscription based version now being ‘premium’. Honestly that was pretty cool because you could still play the majority of the game, albeit with limited character slots, for free and if you were already a subscriber there was no real difference.
 
This was not that long after they upgraded the game with higher quality graphics modes, and added Architect Entertainment, a mission building system that let players go so far as creating their own in-game missions with customized enemies. Again, the customization in the game was INSANELY GOOD.
 
Anyhow, presumably because the publishers didn’t want Champions Online to be competing with it, they pulled the plug on it, despite the game still being profitable, despite the huge, loyal, enthusiastic fanbase, and ignoring every request, plea, offer, etc from those fans to buy the game from them. Which is a shame because Champions Online is garbage in comparison. I’d rather play DC Universe Online. Neither one has the character creation freedom COH did but at least DCUO’s look cooler and the combat is more engaging with the timed button press combos.
 
I’m a hopeful backer of City of Titans, but what we lost with City of Heroes was irreplaceable. That game was the pinnacle of people actually playing this MMO together. Every other MMO, the majority of players spend like 80% of the game playing by yourself, only grouping up to run dungeons or raids. In City of Heroes, you were constantly forming groups, for casual questing, impromptu in-game events like the Rikti invasions, the aforementioned costume contests, or just to hang out with friends. Their version of guilds gave you a shared, and of course completely customizeable, base where you could do more than just chat over the shared channel, something not even WoW has done.
 
Summary; Create your own character with whatever combination of two power sets you want. You eventually have a total of five costume sets you can have per character, and the degree of detail and control you have over your looks is unrivaled. You can likewise change how your powers look; Shoot whatever color fire or electricity you want, you can make it match your costume and backstory. Form a supergroup and build a sprawling base designed to your specifications. Visit AE and make your own missions with your own enemies. Listen to the player run radio station, hosted from an in-game faction-neutral hub. Oh, did I mention, you can team up with other players regardless of their faction? You can even change your character from hero to vigilante to villain to freelance rogue as many times as you feel the need to? And do all of this with a player environment that actively encourages you to do so, shows interest in what you’ve made, and the vast majority of it is all located on a single server. /em holdtorch, RIP Virtue.

@C Money  
Nah; wanted to get that Thor-one in. More comedic worth if someone doesn’t know the context.

@ShimmeringStallion  
You mean this:  

@C Money  
Puny god.
 

Puny rock.

This would be more awesome if the pie sisters were all being their cute selves on top on the “anon” title, putting more weight on his back. Like all metaphorical and shit.

@Align
 
That’s how it goes. Makes you wonder when the world will reach the point of virtual reality MMOs a la cyberpunk animes.

@Dirty Bit  
There was also a sort of ok game somewhere in there, but as with most MMOs spending time with friends was the real draw.

@Daneasaur
 
That’s a shame.

@Dirty Bit  
WAS.
 
The servers were killed since it was a MMO.

@Keith Mowz
 
So that’s what City of Heroes is like. Must sound fun.

@Dirty Bit  
The main starting zone in City of Heroes. People would regularly congregate there (you can see what is actually a relatively small group collected there by his feet) for stuff like costume contests. The game had some of the absolute best character customization and costume design stuff in any game ever. I could and did spend literally hours just making things. Then hang out in Pocket D and listen to the player run radio station while chatting with friends. [sigh]
 

This is a DIRECT reference to The Incredible Hulk Battles the Inhumans.
 

@Keith Mowz
 
I dunno what that is.

@Dirty Bit  
I think of Atlas but only because of  

 
(RIP, never 4get.)

@Dirty Bit  
Nope. Atlas ftw.

@Dirty Bit  
No, I thought it too. :D

Was I the only one who thought of Atlas before Hulk?

@Pagan  
@SuperDEF
 
Yeah, I gotta admit. He looks very Hulk-ish

@MethidMan  
Color him magenta all I care. I draw him with Caucasian features but that aside he can be colored with polka dots if that strikes peoples fancy. My story has him gray scale for a reason explained later, and pink things are colored for a reason too.

@Pencils  
Ah. Well yeah I get the Hulk joke, it just made me wonder.
 
So it’s no problem if I choose to color him with normal human skin on my color edits.

@MethidMan  
He isn’t officially anything, I made him green on the cover because of green anon meme, Hulk cover art joke reference and the ongoing argument over his color.