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Eh, Dr Staten Island maybe

It sucks that Dark Corridors was cancelled so soon. Tommaso sometimes stumbled with the story, but overall it was a real fun Jim Thompson-esque crime drama.

(I wrote some of this in the newswire comments)

Ok, finally read it. I thought it was a solid first issue. Players were established and the background was set for plot development with possibly more flashbacks to the 20's to further clarify the big reveal. I'm intrigued by the role Elisa Sinclair will play and just exactly what her faction of Hydra (which

Thanks, internet and news outlets for telling me the reveal on release day. I mean, it's fine that they covered it, but they could given me a chance to read the thing.

Yes, it was too influenced by the works Thomas Mann

This gets real creepy real fast if you think about Golden Age Cap

It is, but it's also further from the subject of discussion than the aforementioned, imo.

I never really thought of The Crow or Punisher as superheroes, but I suppose one can make a case for them. The Punisher with Thomas Jane is from 2004, though.

Yes, of cock.

On the bright side, "The Night Of" looks interesting.

Maybe I remember them wrong. but the seemed like kid's movies to me. I didn't see them on first run, though.

Seeing Munn in that outfit is not the only reason I want to see this movie, but it's, oh, maybe, 40% of it.

That was a good movie and it does deserve to be mentioned in these conversations. I know there are several DTV follow-ups, but it's a shame it never got a proper theatrical sequel.

I'm guessing here, but Tim refers to Blade as the first superhero movie in the modern sense, so I think the article is referring only to superhero movies, not all comic book franchises. In this same context, "In the modern sense" would preclude the Ninja Turtle movies which were targeted primarily at children.

Hedging their bets for the first movie was probably the right move at a time when the uncanny valley between full-on costumed heroes and relatively "serious" drama (these are still superpowered superheroes, after all - we're not talking Bergman here) was possibly too steep for casual fans and viewers unfamiliar with

"The British gentleman who hasn't worked for us in thirty years because we duped him with a shitty contract"

Has anyone checked out Comixology Unlimited? The initial offering is fairly limited but still pretty good for the price.

Three!

Bring back Hart to Hart!