Okay, we all know how this works.  Entertainment Weekly puts out a list ranking something… anything… Best Movies, Funniest Titles, Best Use Of A Vagina… and the denizens of the web work themselves into a frothy frenzy over the errors, mistakes, omissions, insults, and travesties within.  Lists in general, and EW’s ridiculously inept lists in particular are nothing more than virtual chum used to draw in the page views and comments.  It’s a cheap ploy and legitimate journalists should know better than to stoop to such artificial means to increase traffic.

Which brings us to the first of two new EW lists… 20 All Time Coolest Heroes In Pop Culture… which we’re happy to reprint in all it’s glory for our readers.  Say what you will about EW and the shmucks who compile these things, but said shmucks do have a knack for making each list more hilariously inexplicable than the last.   Take a look at what is and isn’t there then sound off in the comments section below!

1. James Bond
2. Indiana Jones
3. Superman
4. Harry Potter
5. Ellen Ripley
6. John McClane
7. Han Solo
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
9. Robin Hood
10. Spider Man
11. Mad Max
12. Captain Kirk
13. Foxy Brown
14. Will Kane
15. Dirty Harry
16. Jack Bauer
17. Nancy Drew
18. Batman
19. Atticus Finch
20. Sydney Bristow

So… first impressions?  Superman is the least cool superhero ever.  Harry Potter cooler than anyone on this list?  It took the kid four books to get his first kiss (although it was with an Asian).  Dirty Harry and Jack Bauer should both be in the top ten at least.  Robin Hood?  Robin Hood?  Seriously?  And Han Solo should be number one with a laser beam (that he fired first).

Your thoughts?