RIP Arse Dan

"They'll never know…that you didn't have the nerve…"

Thanos ain't.

We already have the Eradicator in these movies, it's just that everyone is calling him Superman.

It's already broken some pre-order records, which is depressing. What I'm hoping is that it falls just short enough of expectations financially to force the suits to rethink things, but that there's enough clamor for WW's appearance that they'll lean into a broader audience (read: less bro-y) going forward.

In the Pre-Nu52 Age, he had a red sun sex lamp. For sex.

The thing is, in nearly all of her endlessly changed and retold origin stories, she was raised and thoroughly trained in a warrior culture. Her gifts of superpowers are (usually) granted upon her coming of age. At the very least, she should resemble an athlete more than a model.

Off key, awkward, and completely vulnerable.

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.