Lovecraft was afraid of other people and turned them into monsters. Barker did the same with his own impulses and urges.

Male pertaining, I assume, to genitalia, and not gender. Respect Phyllis’s choices.

Why, when the perfect live-action adaptation is right there: Hercules.

NO ONE had a coherent story arc in the MCU. Tony Stark redeems his dickishness in practically every movie by “sacrificing himself,” only to come back to life a few minutes later. Likewise, every single movie with Cap is about him choosing certain death over the compromise of his morals, and then he never has to do…

I could go for some coffee. Maybe later some beers or White Russians, and maybe some confused looks when I call them “oat sodas” and “Caucasians” because of this fuckin’ movie.

How could Kemp and his advisors be so uniformed?

Y’know, I actually liked kid’s shows and superhero comics when they were all self-contained adventures that you could enjoy in any order, and the creators proudly proclaimed “the writers flipped, we have no script. Why bother to rehearse?”

Batman stole from everything. But I mean, Little Face? The Blank? Tiger Lily? Trigger Doom? Pruneface? Big Frost? Everyone was swiping from everyone, and Batman swiped from EVERYONE.

I mean, that’s the late 80s/early 90s in a nutshell. Grunge rock and Tarentino are direct (and very different) responses to that.

I always thought it was silly how Tracy is framed and goes to jail and there’s a musical montage, and then when it’s time for the finale, his cop friends just take him out of jail, give him a tommy gun, and let him lead the raid.

I mean, the printing process has evolved, but

Watching that scene, it reminds me that it took comic book movies almost 30 years before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse used color again to such excellent effect.

They tried it with Alec Baldwin in The Shadow, and, uh,

Well, those reasons, and computer effects weren’t up to snuff until 10 years later. Taking every trick in Superman: the Movie, Batman 1989, and The Rocketeer, can you imagine anyone doing Spider-Man or X-Men without at least photoreal-ish CGI?

Anyone gonna point out how the comic Dick Tracy came out in 1931, 8 years before Batman? If anything, Batman aped Dick Tracy, especially in regards to insane, disfigured gangster and femme fatale villains.

$60, huh?

It’s a comedy of manners. Anyone can remake Emma/Little Women/etc with whatever colors, cultures, or genders they want and produce something that’s probably worth watching. Don’t tell artists they can’t do stuff. It rarely works.

If it was optioned, the author got a nice check. That’s what really matters.

So on the live action with an animated main character from a cartoon spectrum, where is it?

New York and Los Angeles are technically, you know, across the country from each other.