I agree in principle - though, given that Chabon is a huge comic book nerd and Vaughn's one of the medium's most acclaimed writers, and that three of the mentioned properties produced some genuinely well-regarded comics (despite having every possible reason to suck), there is a weird sense to it. Though it really…

V.

"What? Another goddamn shared universe?! I barely have patience for one, and I'm a comic book fan! And by Hasbro, no less? Ugh, unless they're adapting a bunch of Larry Hama stories I have negative interest. Micronauts? Bah, space fantasy has to be super-weird camp for me to see a movie, no sale.

Now can we get the Unicode Consortium to encode MarsVenusAnkhSquiggly as an official emoji?

Red State is just as you say. It's evident that Smith really, truly tried with that one, attempting so many things that were completely foreign to his ouevre, and the fact that the majority of it all actually worked is impressive enough to make an open-minded viewer think that there is indeed a legitimate filmmaker…

White meat. Dark meat. All will be carved.

Just a couple of months ago, I was talking to a a professional session musician about his brief experience at Paisley Park - he claimed he got to listen to a reel-to-reel recording of Prince and Miles Davis jamming together, and that it was one of the most beautiful things he'd ever heard. I almost died on the spot,…

He's not a celebrity. He's Prince.

No, no, nononononono, no, NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. no…

Quite true.

…An actress even lighter-skinned and tinier than Saldana?!

It would, of course, be called Four Women.

I've often wondered why there isn't much exploration in biopics of the self-expatriation of African-formerly-American artists throughout the twentieth century. The buildup to a great artist like Nina - in a complicated mixture of righteous fury and egotism, by all accounts - deciding to say, "Fuck this forever" to…

It stinks!!

That's crazy talk. Major has had the most interesting character arc on the show, Liv included, and Robert Buckley has nailed every note on a broad spectrum.

"Bronze Age" is clunky, yes, but the absolute worst has to be "Dark Age". No one but Kurt Busiek should ever be allowed to use that.

It's actually a good ass-pull of a time period: 1984 is the year before CoIE, so you could call it the last full year of the Bronze Age.

Legend feels definitive. It's balancing all these disparate aspects of Wondy lore to really build the personality of both Diana and all of Themyscira in a way that feels true. And for a character whose very origin story writers just can't stop blowing up and retconning, not only is it quite an accomplishment, it's…

I haven't been keeping up, and have heard a bunch of grumbling about it lately, but the book that's won Best Ongoing three straight years not even being nominated is quite a cliff to fall off of. And in favor of a book that I've never found better than "okay", even in the early years. I suppose Kirkman is finally…

Good analysis.