Maybe so people will recognize the character and tune in? That's the best excuse I can think of.

Even when I was kid, the name Black Lightning made me uncomfortable. There was a stretch in the 60s through the 80s that black characters were called Black <superhero name="">. Maybe the new Spider-Man should be called White Spider-Man to even things out a bit.

With the exception of Magik (who I suppose was ethnically Russian, but she wasn't very entrenched in that culture), all of those characters were actually ethnic minorities. If you believe Chris Claremont, Kitty was also either bisexual or lesbian.

How long until the price on this gets jacked up and the food starts going to hipsters instead of people who need a meal?

In the same way Schroedinger's cat was two things, sure.

The director is generally God on a movie, and writers play second banana to that. When the writer's voice is strong, or even the same as the director's? Well, you get movies like Mullholland Drive. That's enough of an argument in and of itself to include writers.

Meh, Wolverine was a supporting character until the late 80s. Prior to that time (when the X-Men were extremely popular, but well before the saturation point), Chris Claremont was more likely to focus on Storm, Cyclops, and Kitty Pryde (and I marvel once again at how he managed to write such a popular comic in the 80s…

That's not a high bar to clear.

The Ash v. Evil Dead folks seem to have a pretty good sense of humor. Maybe they could have a cross-over.

No. Absolutely not.

Or, maybe they just don't like the taste of coffee?

Pfft. I don't even OWN a juice.

Wow, AV Club. That was dumb, even for you. I am impressed that Sam Barsanti managed to get paid for this, though.

It absolutely does sound fake. It's like a sheltered redneck's idea of what gay people do.

I don't think SS can be defended as anything even approaching "awesome." What I can say about it is that it seemed to understand that it was a comic book movie, and that it broke out of the weird, hyper-stylized sort-of realistic darkness that has plagued DC movies forever. I mean, the plot is completely bonkers, but…

Nobody really thinks the DC universe movies are better, do they? I mean, the DC movies are getting better, but it's not really a fair comparison.

The A.V. Club

I told some acquaintances that if they ever got stopped in Mexico, they could say, "Chinga su puta madre, pendejo" and get out of a ticket. I hope they didn't take me too seriously.

It's a very good show. Oliver is, first and foremost, an entertainer, and that's what he seeks to do. Any educational value is a side benefit. And, to my knowledge, as much as we might want him to, he's "destroyed" absolutely nothing.

To be fair, the article wasn't engaging in aesthetic criticism. It was stating that people are fatigued with these films and not going. Even in the cases of the mediocre superhero films, that just isn't true at all.