I mean, you kinda just explained why the character should be reworked from its original inception.

Plus, the Peter Parker supporting cast.

Yeah, but…that's hardly the end of the story, there.

Hmmm. I always read, y'know, Mom as the Madonna.

And I believe that her ANAD creative team said they'd changed it again to make sure there was one set look. Well done everyone! Promotions, all around!

Well, I don't think it's the "premier Avengers comic" anyway, despite this review; ANADA has the higher profile characters, creative team, and marketing push.

I think that's right; Stern comes pretty close, buy you know what you're getting with Stern: rock solid craftsmanship, but nothing that makes you say "Holy shit!" JMS had a pretty good handle on the characters, but was beset by dumb editorial mandates.

I only finally read Miller's run last year, after I'd followed Miller's…current work. And frankly, that kind of ruined it for me, because I kept catching of all his gross Miller-isms in embryonic form.

Yeah, this exactly. The human race has written a pretty effective (if bloody…) playbook on eliminating monarchs. If she tries to actually act like a "Goddess", the people of the UK will start reading it.

I think, though, that the next Monarch who refuses to sign a bill will be the last monarch. Theoretically, she could really fuck shit up, but political reality is, she won't.

BUT, which I think was the OP point, she has almost no direct political power anymore.

Yeah, that's why I flagged "meaninglessness". If nothing else, something that has THAT amount of money spent on it isn't wholly without meeting. I mean, I'm a Yank, I don't pretend to get it, but I was in London for her Jubilee, and everyone was at least *reacting* to her. I don't know what she means, but she means…

I think it's because Elizabeth's reign pretty much completes the monarchy's decine into meaninglessness (if we can call it that).

I pretty much assume that every job a former Doctor takes is just another timey-wimey adventure, but man, Matt Smith makes it easy.

Pa was kind of a mess, it's just that Costner did a really good job playing him (and that "You are my son" scene brings in all the feels). But as an element of the film, he's all over the place. It's kinda summed up when Clark asks him if he shoulda just let the bus drown and Pa essentially says, "I dunno."

1) I don't really blame Cavill for that, I just think that writing Superman is very hard.

Yes. I'm no one's idea of a libertarian, but this scenario in no way represents an actual libertarian thought, if only because, when you think about it, it actually takes FAR MORE government intervention to set up such a system.

Yeah, self-defense and social democracy aren't exactly mutually exclusive concepts.

It's pretty intriguing that, in order to set up this "libertarion dystopia", you pretty much have to have MUCH MORE government intervention.

How does that work if "emergency services are turned off" or whatever? The premise is kinda paper-thin…