The animation quality was noticably a step down from the other DCAU output, which hurt the show quite a bit. I really wish they had been able to follow through on their original plan to make Static's best friend gay though, it would have been pretty cool. (I still love the show for making a sequel to that one Superman…

They weren't able to use the character precisely *because* a pilot was being developed at the time. DC had a fucking absurd rule at the time that two separate versions of a character couldn't exist at the same time. These days they're thankfully a little more allowing, hence Superman guest starring on Supergirl…

I'm like the fifth or sixth commenter on this very article to comment on how perfect the whole DCAU was, but goddamn. I rewatched the first season of JLU recently (first two seasons, depending on how you count it, the entirety of the Cadmus arc basically, from "Initiation" to "Epilogue") and it is absurd how adult…

Mongul always struck me as incredibly one-note. Bizarro is great but can too often be played for dumb comedy when there's actually an opportunity for some real pathos there. You're dead-on with Brainiac at the top of the list though. My list would go something like: Metallo, Zod, Darkseid, Lex Luthor, Brainiac.

Maybe I'm still just far too naive as to the ways of the world, but in all this praise, does anyone feel the need to scream from the rooftops that you're giving money to a film starring an abuser and rapist? If you absolutely have to see it, wait until it comes out on DVD or rent it or something. This honestly sounds…

Can I listen intently while having lesbian sex and eating lemon cakes all at once?

As a side note, I think it's kind of interesting (read: an odd sort of relief) how we're almost seeing the opposite of what most people expected to see right now, globally speaking. The evil Corporations everyone fears so much are kind of saving the country in a weird way, such as pouring billions of dollars into the…

Show me a politician who isn't a prototypical hypocrite. The best damn President this country has ever had in our 240 year history was probably FDR, and he put innocent Japanese citizens in camps. I'd almost argue you need to be a little bit of a hypocrite to get anywhere in politics. Clinton obviously isn't a perfect…

Republicans will vote for any candidate you put in front of them with an R next to their name. Literally anyone, even a pile of orange radioactive waste masquerading as a human being. Democrats will only vote for a candidate after the candidate jumps through 500 hoops and says all the right buzz words and doesn't do…

I gave up on Trump voters, every single one of them, when they didn't turn on him after he basically bragged about rape to Billy Bush. That was the moment when I realized Hillary Clinton was dead-fucking-on with the Basket of Deplorables comment. So nothing that's happened during the course of the actual…

My friend's nephew is 19, hopefully it's not too late for him to come around eventually. For some reason the 'fuck everything, I'm edgy and like being offensive' mentality is appealing to some teenage boys and then proceeds to never fucking go away.

How old is your oldest nephew, if you don't mind me asking? I have a friend whose nephew is a Trump supporter for many of the same reasons and it makes me want to smack him (or, y'know, teach him common sense and human decency, blah blah blah). Also, what about GotG2 do you think promoted an anti-Trump message?

Couldn't have put it better myself. I have an uncle who's a huge Trump supporter (wish I could say he's the black sheep, but the circle of non-Trump lovers in my family is pretty much only me and my mother), and he LOVES Marvel movies. Tony Stark is like his spirit animal. Now, obviously he comes away from these…

That's true, although like always entertainment serves a dual purpose: escapism is obviously an immediate benefit, but the best forms of entertainment can serve as a commentary on the times we live in, and I think films like the first Iron Man, Winter Soldier, and Civil War have some really underrated political…

You forgot the fourth category: Doomsayers who like screaming about how the soul of the industry is slowly being murdered by comic book adaptations. Personally I don't believe that bullshit. The industry never had much 'soul' to begin with, and secondly I think some of the most inventive scripts to come out over the…

Now THAT is a movie adaptation of The Clone Saga I could get behind.

You made me want an R-rated Uncle Ben spinoff movie, damn you to hell.

I remember everyone saying "Well, the superhero movies can only go down in popularity from here" after The Avengers. And then after Guardians. And then after Civil War. Some people hate comic book films so fucking much they'll never stop predicting it. Meanwhile I, as a loyal Marvel nerd, continues to enjoy the…

"Hey Wade, why did you just shove one of your katanas down your pants?"
"So you would ask me if there's a katana in my pocket or if I'm just happy to see you, of course."
"…"
"It's both, if you're wondering."

I just saw a review on Vox of this movie that was praising it all over. The disconnect is humorous, to say the least.