Apparently him and DC are on a bit more stable terms these days, Isabella and Johns had a pow wow a year or so ago when DC was about to reprint some of his Black Lightning stuff.

Possibly? I think my interest in them comes from hearing favorable comparisons to Doves, which is a band I highly enjoy. The song from the article does sound a bit like Coldplay now that I think of it though.

Elbow is one of those bands I've been meaning to check out but never gotten around to, is the song linked in the article representative of their sound?

That's a bad leather jacket.

Exactly. I would however think that he, or someone like him, would jump all over the chance of doing a Batman movie if it meant they could do their own take on it. Sadly, that's not happening anymore.

My God, man! A director with a vision beyond pleasing studio heads? You're insane!

If this movie weren't saddled with tying in to a shit "shared universe", I'd love to see Denis Villeneuve's take on Batman. As things stand now, I'd be fine with WB just pulling the plug on this whole thing.

The Lost World is basically Spielberg doing Aliens, which is both probably the only way to do a sequel to Jurassic Park and a really bad idea at once.

Strangers on a Train: Being a Hitchcock flick, Strangers on a Train is of course a (sometimes overindulgent) masterclass in the composition and framing of shots, most notably during a tennis match which is shot and presented as tense and believably as any movie scene depicting sports up to today. The acting is…

I actually dropped out from it, as interesting as it was, due to the needlessly complicated timeline jumps and general plot vagueness. This however looks (with emphasis on the visuals, Cowan and Sienkiewicz are a dream team and they seem to have hooked up with a really good colorist here as well) pretty damn great.

Actors pretend to be other people by reading from a script. I don't know who examines the dignity of the human experience, but it ain't them.

…unless he's asking DS for permission to do something that would enhance his wanking experience, which I kind of think is what's going on here. An upside for him, a dramatic downside for pretty much everyone else.

Regardless of everything else, calling acting "…a craft whose purpose is examining the dignity of the human experience" is kind of vomit inducing. Get out of town with that shit.

I don't know, but it does sound reasonable.

I remember him being pretty funny in Gavin and Stacey, but I haven't seen that show in many years.

Watch the trailer all the way through…

For me, it's more a case of a poked at sense of consistency. Lobo regularly tussles with Superman, which means Batman shouldn't be able to wrestle him or pierce his skin with a syringe. I'm pretty deep into Comic Book Guy®-territory here, but I can only be true to myself!

To each their own of course, but I don't think that artwork is very representative of post 1985 superheroes. If anything, Di Giandomenico feels pretty unique in how he combines scratchy, sketch-like pencils with highly noticeable digital backgrounds and effects

I'm not really a fan of how DC are pushing Suicide Squad into the spotlight by shedding a lot of their combined goofiness and tragedy, and Batman did way too well in that fight against Lobo, but other than that it's been a fun crossover so far. DC seems to have learned a lot from the endless, all-engulfing crossovers…

While I get that one can be annoyed over various meta-implications in The Flash's new-ish Geoff Johns origin, I don't think it's fair to simply call it "awful". Excessively grim or not (it probably is), it's streets ahead the old one in dramatic potential and dynamism.