The line isn't great, but McKellan's reading of "Charles Xavier did more for mutants than you will ever know. My single greatest regret is that he had to die for our dream to live." always gets me.

You thinking of Dennis Farina? Because Dennis Franz is still alive, albeit retired on his NYPD BLUE money.

Wouldn't that have been Gordon? But he could use a new one, yeah. . .

Jerry Nelson (The Count, Lew Zealand), in fact!

The didn't even need Roth - just CGI Abomination. Although INCREDIBLE HULK being such a bastard stepchild of the MCU, I can see why they skipped it. Secretary of State Ross works whether you remember Hurt from TIH or not; a big green monster out of nowhere would demand explanation.

I was very sad to have had Giant-Man spoiled months ago by a Lego set image. Would have loved to have been surprised by that. But at least unlike suitcase armor and Hulk-catching-Iron Man, it wasn't in an actual trailer for the film. . .

I don't know how they do "Born Again" on this show as constructed. A big part of the reason why Kingpin's plan works in the comic is that Matt doesn't see the pattern in his troubles until the very end (when his sanity is already precarious). And he doesn't see it largely because he doesn't know that Kingpin has found…

I thought Quaid was far superior. As a friend of mine put it, "Quaid's Doc made you feel like you'd catch TB from the movie screen: Kilmer seemed like he had a cold."

I liked both. I feel like in the comics Ross has been portrayed as alternately a principled military man and a hypocritical shitbag. Elliot nailed the former; Hurt the latter.

I feel like Nicholson gets a bum rap. Yes, there are "Jack-like" moments, but his Joker to me was straight out of the 1970s Englehart-Rogers run. No, it wasn't the Joker of DARK KNIGHT RETURNS or KILLING JOKE, but "The Laughing Fish" was considered definitive Joker for quite some time…

Although I question the author's interpretation of the scene. Bob ultimately was able to kill Yoohoo, sure, but the beating before that was no rope-a-dope. Bob was just straight up getting worked over. I suspect that if you asked Bob under sodium pentathol, he'd admit that he didn't know he had it in him (ROAD WARRIOR…

YEAR ONE is even a bit better, I'd say. And the sad caricature period doesn't kick in until after the first few SIN CITYs.

BORN AGAIN, yes. The prior run he drew with Jason was good, but not as good as the triumvirate of DKR/ YEAR ONE/BORN AGAIN (IMO).

JACK B QUICK would like a word. . .

Check out ELEKTRA LIVES AGAIN, if you haven't - I'd say it's Miller's apex as an illustrator.

Decker and Ilia were created for PHASE II, but neither Collins nor Khambatta had been cast (although Khambatta had auditioned). The only new actor hired for PHASE II before it evolved into the film was David Gattreaux as Spock-replacement Xon. He played the space station commander in ST;TMP after Xon was eliminated…

Speaking of left-field comic book movie Will Smith casting: I had half a thought they should have made him Ozymandias in WATCHMEN. Rebrand Veidt as a lifestyle guru with all the Fresh Prince charisma - audiences would have *never* seen Smith coming as the villain.

Ray Stevenson should have been Robert Barratheon.

Baldwin didn't enjoy working with Burton on BEETLEJUICE. He may have turned it down, if it were offered.

Goggins is awesome, and frighteningly charismatic, but not pretty. Jesse Custer, despite his ability to kick ass, is a pretty boy.