Parker, you’re a scientist.

You got a small dose of radioactive venom that rewrote your DNA like a college kid hacking out a term paper to a class he’s never attended after an Adderall and Red Bull mixer. Whatever radiation you had was flushed from your body after a few weeks.

It was the same story with the X-Men and Fantastic Four. Everyone loves a conspiracy, even when the ready answer that “sometimes comics go through a period where they aren’t what you like” is right there. As if there’s some smoke-filled room where Marvel executives arm-wrestle their editorial staff and/or contract…

99% of the audience of the Spider-Man movies has no clue about, or any interest in whatever is happening in the Spider-Man comic books.

Of course it wasn’t the first smartphone, we all know that. That’s not what the author is implying. It did, however, catalyze widespread adoption of smartphones. I don’t remember anyone waiting in lines for a Blackberry. And the first iPhone was, by any definition, a smartphone. Third-party app support does not define…

Mind some else’s business? Did she read his diary or something? He wrote a public tweet that millions of people read. People are going to interpret that in different ways. It’s one of the dangers of tweeting.

Well, Alabama, should have been your first clue.

Why is it only a race/gender/class war when they fight back.?

Oh, you mean like that thing that happened in Tulsa a hundred years ago?

Isn’t it funny how “race wars” and “race riots” are almost always started by white people? And I’m a white guy so I get to hear the shit you people say behind their backs.

The ORIGINAL. Eastman and Laird.

Exactly, part of the reality that I don’t think a lot of people understand is that transferring something from one medium to another is an adaptation and things are going to shift due to the different constraints/freedoms of those mediums. take any comic book movie fight scene. while a comic may have some action…

I want to know what people mean when they demand creatives “MUST respect the source material” because honestly I reject the idea that anyone adapting a creative works should have to do that. In fact, there’s lots of examples where deviating from source materials have led to better works.

“You’ve heard the phrase ‘get busy’? Well, this is a Dark Knight who gets bizz-ay. Thoroughly and consistently.”

4 minutes into a strike that had approval in the high 90% range among membership, you have to expect some blow back when your stated public position doesn’t support the strike.

Unions indeed aren’t perfect, nor are the people that comprise them. In particular, police and teacher unions too often protect genuinely problematic people. But this isn’t them. This is a union taking a very justified stand against naked corporate greed for the protection of the livelihoods of tens of thousands of…

Well, I mean, there’s a time and place to criticize union leadership and in the middle of labor action that was voted on with high-90s approval probably isn’t the best time?

Especially when the people you’re striking against literally own the media, so they have the home field advantage re: twisting any news story to…

Yep, it’s the concept of criticism that people are taking issue with, not the specific content of his words.

I wonder if the answer for why Charlie’s Angels flopped was simply that the interest was limited.  How many people really have that much affinity for a show that had a brief moment of cultural relevance decades ago?  How much market share was it really going to capture?  Whereas Barbie is one of those pop culture…

When I read the headline I thought “oh! This’ll bring out that one dude who’s mad at Elizabeth Banks!”

The FF are great when done right. You can’t really say “FF movies are going to crash and burn” - all we’ve had are bad movies. “Bad movies are going to crash and burn” is more like it.