I'm terribly excited for all the possibilities of a second season, if it's in the offing. Jimmy Woo and the Agents of ATLAS would be incredibly fun (though perhaps the whole misfit crew would be too diluting), but I think it might serve the show best to forge its own ground - so if they're going to raid the Marvel…

GET OUT.

Mage had a really interesting idea - that all human endeavour, magical, technological, or what-have-you, was the result of humanity's facility for pattern-making and belief, and that the Enlightenment was a secret war where the technologists won out over the others, technology becoming the dominant paradigm of the…

Some of my favorite science/fantasy books:
The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick. A frankly amazing syncretism of Dickensian industrial dystopia, Seelie/Unseelie class oppression, and a deep nihilism embedded within the cyclical nature of folklore. Also, dragons with missiles.

Appropriately enough, perhaps the most iconic poster is by Tim Hildebrandt, who made his fame as a Tolkien illustrator (amongst other fantasy work).

One of the reasons I really enjoyed Dredd - the stakes were simply "survive the night". And not just that - the way it ends makes it seem like just another day in the life of Joe Dredd.

I honestly think he would have said exactly the same thing if Peggy were a man.

Though I think the show has handled retro-topicality well, I'm glad they avoided tackling the dastardly Jim Crowbar.

Great points!

Unfortunately, hatewatching can be a self-fulfilling prophecy - once you've decided to pick on something or someone, it's very hard to get out of that mindset.

Ditching a standard case-of-the-week structure in favor of giving arcs several episodes to play out have benefited both shows immensely.

In three brief scenes (and two of them are also sketching out the villain's machinations), they managed to suggest a whole believable, affecting emotional landscape for a secondary character. Great job by the writers and the actor, and I really appreciated that they had him fighting back just enough - a subtle but…

I just loved the tiny mental freakout the agent has - he doesn't even know how to describe it. "She's…going down the stairs! Fast!"

And now you have an inkling as to why Wally's erasure since the New 52 (even before, actually) has been painful, especially for those of us who watched the character mature and grow over decades.

I still think 52 is a pretty good model for how DC should approach not only its event comics, but its whole idea of themselves: it was pulpy as hell, shifting from sci-fi to noir to comedy to horror even within a single issue; it let their smaller characters shine, and had unconventional pairings bounce off of each…

Behind-the-scenes reasons aside, there are strong narrative reasons to go with Barry over Wally on the show: more than most, Wally West's status as a legacy character (inheriting the mantle from Barry) is a deep, inextricable part of his entire story. He started out as a teen hero - Kid Flash, who was brash and cocky…

Great list, but the person did say "superhero comics".

That absolutely disgusts me in so many ways.

I wouldn't mind some Bruce Lee anecdotes. Time to trawl through the archives!

*kneels*
Dear God in Heaven, I don't ask you for much…