The goddamn tenor's a brown artist!

I will never, ever refer to Billy Batson's alter ego as "Shazam". If pressed, I'll say The Hero Formerly Known as Captain Marvel.

Also, it really, really helps to have read some Coleridge.

I'm starting to suspect that the season finale will feature Rebecca singing a song, out loud and in real life.

It makes sense: Paula's been taking "living vicariously" to a whole new level of dysfunction. She's been orchestrating this rom-com fantasy like a maestro, and having, at least in her mind, pulled off getting Rebecca to jet off to Hawaii to seal the deal, probably not only feels like taking a convenient opportunity…

Honestly, I prefer shorter television seasons. Less than twenty almost always results in a tighter, stronger show. I think eighteen is a perfect number of episodes for this rookie season, and really wouldn't mind a similar number for the next.

There's lots of problems with American Gods, but probably my least favorite (other than a mute lampshade of a protagonist) is the fact that the actual American Gods are awful. In a career made of humanist reimaginings of folktale and myth, the American Gods are the laziest, dullest things Gaiman's ever written. Of…

Yeah, I fully agree, and don't get the assertion that Pratchett's unfilmable. His stories are so human and grounded (and distinctly verbal, as opposed to "literary") that no matter how fanciful or conceptual an element, there's always a hook for an actor or animator to land it. Best bet is for an ongoing Brit TV…

Nah, the Bakshi is even more shit as an adult. All Bakshi becomes more shit the farther you get from sixteen.

To be clear, in invoking the Ages I'm talking more about the kinds of stories they told and the way they told them, rather than the time periods themselves. But damn, a midCentury FF would be perfect (as The Incredibles can attest to).

That sounds great, Mr. Millar! Here's millions of dollars.

He always was an asshole.

Superhero movies haven't followed the Golden->Silver->Bronze blueprint at all; I'd say that so far, the movies have gone Bronze->Dark/Modern (which reminds me, we really need a new name for the current era, which seems quite different from the thirty-odd years that preceded the present). I'm still hoping that we get…

I mean, good Lord, DC revived so, so many of the worst excesses of the '90's, yet couldn't even get right the one character who was so over-the-top that he was actually fun.

…Oliver Sava turned into comics Armond White so gradually I didn't even notice.

And yeah, I've rarely heard any account of Kricfalusi that doesn't simultaneously hail him as a genius and rue that he's a complete asshole.

Over a span of two-and-a-half decades, in which we've seen the rise of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, a major network devoting most of an evening to adult cartoons, and the explosion of nostalgia projects on all kinds of platforms, if a beloved, talented creator can't get anything off the ground, we might have to…

I always thought of him choosing projects based on what gives him the strongest mental images, as if the scripts or even just ideas that give him the most unshakeable pictures in his head are the ones he develops.

Just the fact that so many of these shots are iconic not just of Spielberg's career, but across all of cinema, is quite the testament.

Whether Tintin or Lincoln.