The actual animation in Sinbad is very good, and the creature designs for the CGI monsters are excellent. Unfortunately, the styles do not mix well at all. (Compare to Atlantis: The Lost Empire, which managed to have really cool integration of CGI monsters. I suspect there was a budget issue with Sinbad, but who…

You know what? I'm proud to say that I am among the eleven other people in America watching this show. It's hot buttered lunacy, completely cheesy and utterly ridiculous. I love it.

Hissssss with me sisters!

Oh hey, I'm in this! It was a really fun conversation, too. And it's pretty crazy to be showing up in a video next to Mark Waid and Neal Adams. (Skype flatters nobody, alas.) Though I'm also not totally sure what I'm saying toward the end is as clear as I thought it was at the time. I was riffing on the idea of…

After a second watch: maybe what's bothering me isn't the stillness, it's the comparatively intense movement of the tail. (That shot of the tail sweeping over the rooftops is just aces, though.)

He's admittedly not doing much, and the sort of monolithic stillness doesn't quite work. On the other hand, that is a seriously good suit design—strange and gnarled and uncanny. I liked the Edwards' Godzilla in part because of its bulk, but this one throws realism out the window, and that's awesome too.

That first Airbender trailer was pretty aces, actually. Shame about…literally everything about the film.

"…fuck. Let me come in again."

Yeah! Superman the straight man in a courtoom setting is a setup a good writer could do a lot with. (Charles Soule's run on She-Hulk found some great material in that world.) To build on that: what is the legal system in the DCU like? There's got to be all kinds of crazy precedents and case law. Who are the lawyers…

Thanks a bunch! There appear to be a lot of us out there. :)

Thanks! (Though of course a hugely active comment section can be a blessing or a curse, no? I dipped down there for a little bit and then thought better of it. Figured nobody wants the author of the piece to come in and intrude on a perfectly good argument.)

One other note. I didn't have room to get into this (and it wouldn't really have been appropriate to dig into it in this piece) but I think that as a working journalist, Clark Kent and Lois Lane are people I've come to identify with over the last few years. Superman stands for justice, but he also stands for truth,…

It is deeply strange to wander by one of my favorite pop culture websites to see what's new and find them bumping an article I wrote.

I want characters with recognizable emotions. I think it's more than fair to point out that the show doesn't have them.

Banshee is what happens when someone looks at Justified and says "You know, this is good, but it needs…more."

Don't be ridiculous. He's clearly not a werewolf.

I think Season 2 wasn't always a success (they bit off a little more than they could chew, some of the characters were mishandled, and the animation in the first half of the season is striking in how poorly it compares to the other seasons) but even when it wasn't *good,* the characterization and plotting was really…

I actually rocked backward when it happened—it was like an intrusion of an entirely different, significantly worse style. Just…wow. Very bad.

I think part of the issue isn't just that she knew the summoning spell (which is easy to handwave in any number of ways: oh, she pieced it together, she picked it up somewhere, a devil taught it to her, oh shit, she's that talented, whatever) it's that she knew the summoning spell because she was a.) Roma, and b.)…

If a specific magical tradition identified with a specific ethnic group can only be used to do harm, than that is, *at the very least,* filled with unfortunate connotations. The writers aren't making a documentary about magic, you know? They're making conscious choices about what attributes to assign and where. If…