It is impossible to make you happy with The Newsroom, Onion AV Club.  Here is what I remember:

Hey, IGN gave that story like a 9 out of 10, so obviously it was great, except for, you know, sucking eggs like everything DC puts out that isn't Wonder Woman.

Hickman is in trouble on Avengers.  With Fantastic Four, he was forced by the nature of the title to give some heart to the characters, but his driving instinct is to write indecipherable science-fiction stories featuring characters who are more like embodied concepts than people.  Ex-Nihilo is symbolic of Hickman's…

I found The Shade unreadable.  But Animal Man and Swamp Thing have both been good.

I Vampire was the worst kind of BS non-storytelling.  It had nice art, but the plot was like watching an 8-year-old play with action figures. Actually, I'd say the same thing about Frankenstein except the art wasn't as good. Demon Knights was never going to run forever, nor was Batman Inc., which is why both were…

Why is "Court of Owls" a good story again?  "Batman fights generic assassin guys?"  I don't get the Snyder love.  I particularly didn't like his stupid no-face Joker story.  We've gotta get the Joker back to being a "criminal" and away from "invincible omnicient uber-psycho", because that second characterization is…

…but both are plagued by tonal inconsistency because the characters have been robbed of their history and don't make much sense.  Superman is especially bad, but Batman is also pretty incoherent if you try to think about what's going on for more than a second.

I don't agree with you, Teller.  The run of Superman between 1986-1994 was pretty great, and that began by rebooting his entire continuity.

I disagree that DC has any kind of plan and also that the things it produces count as stories.  They're just a mess.

Yes.  The New 52 is awful.

Well…there was a time when some of the characters in comic books weren't super-heroes, but that time is over.  Virtually all comic books about superheroes deal exclusively with the spandex crowd, and in that context, Magneto is just kind of a complicated guy.  When, someday, we get back to comics that depict…

Buffy always had a weird moral problem in that the universe it depicted made no sense.  The "Vampire Slayer" is supposed to just kill as many vampires as possible, so she's kind of inherently genocidal.  That's not very heroic.  Also, the mythology is that demons are trying to restore the world to a pre-humanity…

There are also a *million* better ways to deal with the "evil Superman" idea.  Bizarro is one way, another way is the Phantom Zone criminals, a third way was Hank Henshaw before they decided that it would be way cooler if Braniac created the Cyborg Superman so that he would be *exactly the same as Braniac only he…

No, that's exactly right.  I'm truly sick of them.

DC comics offers virtually no characterization to *any* of its characters, with a few exceptions.  I think I can figure out who Hal Jordan is supposed to be, and Wonder Woman, and *maybe* Batman, although only sometimes.  Also, DC has largely forsworn plots that make any damn sense.  Also, DC is a joke of a publishing…

Ignore the haters, Persia.  Yes, the characterization of Starfire gets a *little* better in Red Hood, but what happens is that she goes from "sex toy bimbo" to "violent woman with unclear motivations who sometimes pretends to be a sex toy bimbo for unclear reasons because DC hates characterization".  Also, clarifying…

I honestly think DC comics - with the exception of Wonder Woman - has gotten just embarrassingly bad.  Is there *any* DC title seriously worth paying money for at this point?  The *worst* Marvel titles - I'm talking Superior Foes of Spider-Man and the Defenders - are better than anything DC is publishing (again,…

I was thinking tonight about what The Newsroom would be like if it was made by Matt Weiner or David Simon or somebody, and it made me think along lines similar to this review; Sorkin's flaw, for better or worse, is that he loves his characters and wants good things for them.  He also basically wants to portray the…

While not being accessible or particularly entertaining, I find it refreshing to watch creative effluvia now and then.  Sometimes wondering what the point is can be fun.

So, a) that was fun.  b) I think there's some kind of feminist point in there somewhere, but I'm not sure how to dig it out besides pointing out that women who sincerely kick ass are awesome.