As for a first comic for your wife, girlfriend, etc. to read, I offer up my own experience: Until the early 90s, I was totally in the comics-are-stupid camp. (Remember the old Batman TV show? That’s how I imagined all comics to be, and thus did I, an avid read otherwise, avoid them like the plague.) A new boyfriend…

That’s OK. I can wait till next year when one comes pretty much over my house. :-)

“Magical realism,” anyone? ;-)

Well, if the modern idea of “literary fiction” is all that really matters, there are an awful lot of works in classic literature that I suppose we’ll have to toss on the same heap along with Lord of the Rings and Neuromancer, I guess. I’m thinking of Kafka, Cervantes, and even some Shakespeare, just to name a few.…

I know, I could apply that to everything else they’ve done so far. And in some cases (e.g., Little Red Riding Hood) it’s been clever and entertaining as hell. But Arthur?!? No. No! Never mind what they did to Merlin. PUHlease.... :-\

Oh thankgawd. I’m not even British, just of primarily English but mutt heritage. And I simply could not stand to see Arthur portrayed that way, never mind the rest...

Sweet! Might have to see about making a 3rd edition of my series available within the next year or so...

Awesome. I must admit that by the end of TFA she had become my favorite character. I just walked out thinking about what a crazy fucked-up life she has had and what an amazing woman she would have to be. And my heart just aching for her in general.

Yay!!!! I can’t wait to see their version of Mars.

Absolutely the attention to detail throughout just gives me goosebumps.

Wait, what? That’s Thomas Jane? I didn’t even realize. Great haircut. Great acting throughout. Great direction. And the writing, as you say, goes without saying...

I have enjoyed almost all the silliness they’ve done — and Robert Carlysle is so much fun, he makes up for a lot. But this past season I simply could not bear the King Arthur storyline. If they’re past that and moving on to butchering Greek mythology instead, maybe I’ll go back. ;-)

I’m afraid my reaction to him is more along the lines of the cop’s. He’s trying SO hard with her that it makes him seem pathetic and smarmy rather than charming and rakish. I like him best in his darker moments; for me, the Devil as used-car salesman approach just ain’t doin’ it so far... But I’ve only seen two…

Soooooo cheesy — but so is Dr. Who, dammitt, (though better written and acted and directed and... well, anyway). But I’ll put up with a lot to see Arthur Darville’s version of a timelordmaster. And to see the brothers from Prison Break chewing up scenery like it’s their family Thanksgiving. And Brandon Routh trying…

Yup. He killed my favorite character in all of fiction, and I still don’t hate him. I hate the man/thing who made him do it, who stole him from his family, who corrupted him. Whether it’s Abrams’ direction, Kasdan’s writing, Driver’s delivery and presence, or all of the above, the character is intensely compelling to…

The one guy memorized at leat some Shakespeare too. So we got that going for us. And hey, Jennifer knows “The Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

When the elevator fell. That was a wow moment for me. I read it pacing the house because I literally couldn’t stay seated.

Did you mean documentary? I didn’t like “Merlin” either. Cuz... well... ick.

Yeah I realized only after hitting “Publish” that I had that wrong. For some reason his accent and looks scream spanish/portuguese to me too. But jeeeeeeeze, Camelot was not a freaking country. It was the name of a castle. Cuz in Britain they name buildings. And did I mention, “once and future king of the Britons?”…

Not an “Arrow” viewer since early in the first season. But I didn’t care that I barely knew what was going on. I just treated it as an episode of Constantine and learned enough along the way to make sense of it. ;-)