I'm kinda confused by the attempts to make sense of this game. It's not just the fandom that's doing it either, presumably the creator is too. And I don't really get it because everything is so inconsistent all the way down that it just seems better to give it all over to black humor and nightmare logic.

Thank you for this conversation. We don't quite see eye to eye on the specifics but we both seem to want what's best for X-men. And that's all that matters, in this case anyway.

I dunno, it might have to do with them trying to tell over 50 years of story, but I feel like they've lost a fair amount of focus. What I get out of it now is almost certainly not what any of the creators ever wanted me to come away with.

I would like to reread BKV's run on that. It's the Marvel property I want to see adapted the most. Whether it be a theatrical feature, a television series, or even just a really solid DTV animated film.

So I recently got a subscription to Marvel Unlimited and I don't know where to start. Any suggestions/recommendations?

Oh, then that's my own mistake, I misinterpreted what you had said both times. I don't really know (or care) if this has the ability to displace the original in the public consciousness. So I was responding to that because I felt like that's where people seem to have the most beef with me right now.

Next time I'll clarify that all my opinions are my own and not representative of how anyone else thinks about anything except where noted.

At the time I lacked the means to see it in the theatre. My first viewing was on home video. So I didn't get to have the full-blown spectacle. All I had was everything else. And it worked for me then. But after reading the book (which I'm also not in love with) and exploring other stories that I found more appealing,…

I'm going to be somewhat blasphemous for a moment and say that if this film follows what's been shown and has a solid story and some genuine chills and watchable action I think it has a fair shot of being even better than the original film.

Not sure why they need to work very hard to make a "plausible" universe for these guys to meet up in.

Yeah, but it's never really said why. It's sorta implied that maybe his business is tanking. But his showing up at the party seems to be to support Winston who the film shows is considered less of a Ghostbuster in their world than even our own.

But that should still probably be more than Ray could afford. Who's implied to be on the edge of bankruptcy in the beginning of the first film. Given that all the Busters were sued to oblivion, Ray being able to afford the space and multiple print editions of rare books means he likely came into some kind of cash.

I take your point, but it does take a sizable amount of money to start and own a business with a location in Midtown Manhattan.

I've always liked the opening titles sequence to this film. Very appealing mix of stop motion, optical effects and graphic designs. Shirley Walker's title theme helped put it over the top.

Schulz went into stuff willingly. The only thing that's happening now that he never wanted was the creation of new material not based on prior material. But people far more informed than I can fill you in on the rest.

I never read comics to laugh. I was always in it for the story, art and characters. So that might be a big thing there. The characters in Peanuts are well-defined and quite interesting, at least to me. While there wasn't much story to speak of, the emotional narratives were often engaging and the art always had just…

He's also fairly good-humored for a guy I'm sure gets more insults than praise. Which is nice.

Well me personally? Not really. My town had a great library system that had multiple volumes of available reprints for me to peruse if I chose to do so.

Yeah, I very recently came to the realization that the "I Hate Mondays" thing is actually pretty funny because Garfield is rarely used as a vehicle of expression and has often been regarded as an actual job. I think Jim Davis has even attested to such. Don't quote me on it though.

That's a very good point. Perhaps it is snobbish of me to side-eye anyone putting this as the BEST comic strip ever because they likely don't mean to give it such hyperbolic statements the amount of weight that I see in them.