That's so sad, that show's so stupid and fun and way better than your average Joss Whedon thing.

They've been showing the second Fantastic Four on one of the HBO channels lately. It's impossible to sit through.

I mourn the eternal loss of a particular branding for his movies where people shout cute quips at each other with occasional attention paid to their individual voices.

Cable is probably never a good idea, but I'm a little sad we won't see the aspect from the 1990s cartoon where Apocalypse is going to get his way in the far future and it's only a matter of time before he manages it. It could have made for a different kind of disaster movie, pre-disastered, as it were.

The original Guice/Simonson character was a happy accident that established itself as the key conspiracy in X-Factor, a book about the original X-Men team growing out of the shadow of their childhood that was written and printed when the characters were still aging in real time, more or less. X-Factor got a lot of…

I feel like Simonson's take on Apocalypse at least is more of a Chariots of the Gods-from-Earth sort of tale, where successfully masquerading as gods throughout history suggests his threat to the good guys and his hubris as a megalomaniac, while it's never really suggested that he's a god or anywhere close to one,…

On a different note, I'm surprised that more people haven't talked about Apocalypse as a co-creation of a woman in a set of books traditionally understood (whether true or not) to have appealed to both sexes in a way many other superhero books never did. It's relevant enough given how a lot of anti-woman types fancy…

Or "Vykin the Black". Comics in the '60s and '70s had an interesting habit of labeling black superheroes with a kind of awkward carney-tent pseudo-pride and Kirby wasn't an exception. "Black Panther" ages well, "Black Racer" not so well, and it goes downhill from there.

Who cares about accurate adaptations of decades of contradictory stories? Good ones are fine.

True, which kind of bites, because each of their hooks has a fun, out-there appeal.

I always thought Thanos would require the heavy lifting for Hollywood writers among those three monologue delivery mechanisms. Darkseid and Apocalypse have plans that would translate well from comic to screen, while the best stories about Thanos present him as a sort of droll living reflection of the universe's death…

Singer has said over and over that Apocalypse will have some sort of grab bag of abilities like the we-don't-really-care-he's-just-bad-news versions from TV and the comics, but you could read the latest trailer as suggesting that his ability is just that he can control and remix every mutant he encounters on a level…

I feel like it would seem less dumb if Star Wars hadn't appeared a few years later.

There's some alien crap in his past in print too but they're not likely to be dumb enough to pull that on audiences.

Were you ready for Tyler Mane? And yet, not bad.

It's more like bad movies are Ryan Reynolds' kryptonite.

I like the later seasons all right in hindsight. They had some good episodes, I liked the cast and I could have done with one or two more episodic-TV-heavy seasons with Gish and Patrick. I was uninterested at the time like everyone else, but those seasons hold up better as a much-needed change in tone after they…

Did this show ever improve from the first act of the first episode, which I couldn't turn off fast enough by the time it went to commercial?

His stand-up is the pits. Whiny, pissy, not funny. Otherwise I love the guy.

Maybe Fox will just commit ritual suicide.