She kind of disappeared for a couple decades, so yeah, they can write her out pretty easily. Of course, comics Jane was a nurse, not an astrophysicist. So there are already differences.

Fidelity to the comics trumps fidelity to the mythology. Sif is a brunette in Marvel, and the only person to ever mention the myth of her golden hair was Walt Simonson in the 80s.

The first Thor movie has a remarkable cast (even if not everyone has enough to do), and it's almost entirely because of Branagh. You know he called in favors for a few of those guys (Hopkins almost certainly) and some of them signed on to do the silly comic book movie because Branagh was directing it (Portman,…

Phew. Was worried for a moment.

You're Dr. Evil's dad! I've cracked the code!

Only one cover. Sad.

The New Mutants Annual where Cypher and Warlock save the day (with gorgeous Alan Davis art) was my jam.

"You poor dumb bastard."

Isn't that basically the Avengers in a nutshell, though? The original groups lineup was dictated by the fact that they were Marvel's stars, not because they necessarily needed to be together. Only the X-Men and FF really have a well defined reason to be a "team."

Sort of. It was more that both Starlin and his cosmic heroes run were pretty well respected at the time. Something similar to Robinson's Starman, without the legally binding documents.

Disqus is eating replies, and I'm not flipping the order of discussions and wading through 500 messages to get to the correct one, so - Yes! I would love to see what you think of it. I haven't watched it myself in over a decade, but it has stayed with me for a good while. It really shocked me that it is as old as it…

Rowling isn't a corporation like Marvel, nor has she ruined her own love of her cash cow like Lucas did, so we're probably safe. But if anyone had a big enough dump truck of cash to drive up to her house, it would be Disney.

Hope you like it! I thought it was pretty boss, and it introduced me to Elba's oeuvre.

It definitely existed on DVD at one time, as I own it. It's a tv series, six episodes…

A Batman movie I might be able to show my 4 year old son? Stop the press!

He had criticisms, but yeah, in general he liked it.

Relax. We can too.

Fascinating.

Lego Avengers. I am continually impressed with the selection of characters this game has to unlock. Some deep cuts from the Hulk's rogues' gallery, for example. Level design isn't all that great and the Manhattan hub world is harder to navigate than in Marvel Super Heroes, but my kid gets a blast out of seeing Hulk…

Dan Jones' follow up to his history of the Plantagenet dynasty: The Wars of the Roses. Breezy and informative as the last one.