I don't even think Affleck was a terrible choice. The first sequence in the pool hall brought me completely into the film. I was sold, and they had to work hard to un-sell me. I think the script was clunky, the movie was edited terribly, I think only Duncan, Farrell and Favreau had a firm grasp of the sort of…

Where's my damn Dazzler movie. How many trends in pop have come and gone before our eyes that could sustain that film. Who owns the rights? Fox? Are they high?

I think that would work for Luke Cage, where much of the book followed the era's blaxploitation line about how sometimes you can't make the rent, but then you do the right thing instead and beat up the right people and it all works out anyway. Strangely enough, Spider-Man from that era was a lot of him expressing his…

There are only two directors who have properly used soundtracks in superhero movies, getting the most out of the mixed media: Bryan Singer, and then Guillermo del Toro, in Blade II. Del Toro uses a song that's better than "Wake Me Up", but it's still a cliche song, used in a cliche way, and yet he knows how to film an…

No, I can't blame that particular choice either. On a completely unrelated note, my friends and I still punctuate conversations with a quick twist of the head and the angry whisper, "Liar!"

I thought Colin Farrell did a great job, and so did Michael Clarke Duncan. It was a superhero movie sans superheroes.

I don't know that I'm interested in seeing "Heroes for Hire", but that's on its way, I guess. I don't see how they'd avoid what you want out of it, because of Irony.

I hadn't paid attention to them during the resurgence and that song over a trailer for a Zack Snyder adaptation of a Vertigo book gave me some sort of brain disease for a few seconds where I thought the movie might have a chance of working out, somehow.

"Sussudio" gave the project some much-needed levity, but Spears' "…Baby One More Time" proved itself unable to support the "Battlin' Jack" Murdock montage.

You can trace a line to Archer straight from Hellraiser. A lot of your idea went into Frisky Dingo, another underrated product in my opinion, and I say that as someone who has never been very fond of Cartoon Network or its adult hour. Reed puts a lot of things into the show's protagonist: he's a supervillain parody, a…

The enthusiasm of your comment is refreshing, but I feel like the world may have a few too many Clive Barker films, rather than too few. Barker himself isn't responsible for most of them, of course, but I'd rather see new shit from people influenced by Barker than more adaptations of his stories for the screen.

I'm right in line with the article, 100% behind it, but isn't it sad that the industry is still in a state where it makes sense to write it? How long is it going to take before we end up in a place where the title of this article elicits one reaction: "Well, no shit"?

Lois & Clark made a lot of people look like jokes later during Tinseltown arguments over who to cast as Superman. Cain may not have been the best Superman in the history of Earth, or whatever, but it's not hard to imagine him as Superman and no one really had to try hard to accomplish it. You'd think that would be…

Superman's story was "traditionally" about destroying factories full of cars that were unsafe on the road, burying mine owners who mistreated their workers in their own mines, breaking into the governor's mansion to stop executions of the wrongfully accused, and so on. You know, kid stuff.

Lucifer surprised me. Carey's scripts are idiosyncratic, just as ambitious as Gaiman's but with much more sympathy for the heroes. That sounds like a joke, but if you had sat me down and described the events in that book to me before I read it, I probably would never have read it, to my loss. I feel Wikipedia is that…

I know the article's right about the sudden fan base Thor developed upon his appearance, but those earliest Thor stories are pretty dire. Forgettable foes (for the God of Thunder!), standard mook & monster designs from Kirby, lots of panels banked into an oddly tense story about how Don Blake's disability made him too…

Well, if more ongoings weren't just tepid rehashes that rely overly on callbacks… for all the flak thrown at Kingdom Come over that, I had a way harder time getting excited about DC's main titles when I started reading DC. For Marvel's part, I laughed in disbelief when people complained about things like Kate Bishop's…

Strange to me that people so often say to skip Maggie the Mechanic, bad advice if I ever heard it. The book flows so organically from the light pulp origins into the fuller stories that followed, and makes so much out of that transition, that it seems a shame to miss that part. If someone is going to start asking…

Yeah, it's that exact way. Wonderful contemporary superhero comics, but middling Brubaker (and Epting, for that matter). The guy is just better off portraying people who bleed and bruise than he is at super soldiers, Atlanteans and fire-twirling androids, and that's a compliment.

Really? The book's sales seem to suggest that there were more people like me than otherwise.