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I'm not a huge fan of Mr. Millar's comics, but good for him. He's actually creating new things in comics and seeing major success from his efforts. Instead of you know, revisiting Watchmen or redoing Batman's origin for the 20th time.

Yes because to WB the key to developing new intellectual property is just recycling the old intellectual property. If there were good/new/fresh takes on characters that aren't that popular, it might be worth the investment. But they don't even do that in the comics. Easier to do 40 Batman comics than fail at

Agreed.

They're just not very good. I watched the Son of Batman one this weekend. It's not as good as the source material; the animation is just OK and I don't know who the target audience is for it. The comics fans that have already read the story? They don't seem appropriate for kids.

There is nothing more annoying then lame sound-mixing in movies (especially horror movies). If you have to mess with the sound so much then you're just getting cheap thrills.

But…but he's Phone Jesus.

Gritty reboot of the Tandy Whiz Kids

I have probably heard this song several hundred times and can't think of a song that I hate more. My parents would always listen to the "adult rock" station when I was growing up and this song would always play. Both my parents didn't like it, but this was the age of the radio so you just sit and suffered. I will

No, she's always been pretty awful. But her bad Disney child-star overacting has been replaced by even more tone-deaf, terrible performances so she's giving off the impression she is getting worse.

I prefer the companion site "Partners 4 Days Away From Retirement in Toaster Ovens"

Considering the event that has everything up in arms literally happened in the last second of the last episode shown and hasn't yet been explored or delved into for one single second of screen time….yeah, I'd say some people are not taking the story into account before writing the show's actions off to gender issues.

It's no secret that we've evolved (thankfully). But the broader point is that if gender studies would damn the Odyssey (and they would) then maybe gender studies isn't the be-all, end-all for analyzing fiction. Should it be explored? Yes. But I think too many people get off on being part of the hidden 'misogyny'

It was a little snide. But it gets old. The Odyssey is one of the best stories in all of human history (much better than a pulpy TV show). It is way worse than anything modern in how women are depicted. You have temptresses; witches and literal prizes to be won. But if I were to be in a discussion of the book

I think we should get an extended conversation between Hannibal and Will Graham every week to talk about how amazing women are and the many ways they contribute to the world. Maybe we can have a tag every week just showing the struggles of an everyday working woman in the world that they've created? I don't think

Obviously, you forgot the landmark Adam Banks forced trade that led to the Mighty Ducks dynasty. For shame.

WHY WOULD WONKA, WHO WAS SO ANNOYED WITH GUM CHEWING, CREATE A CANDY THAT NEVER HAS TO LEAVE THE MOUTH OF ITS USER?!?!? THIS IS A CONTINUITY ERROR THAT I DEMAND BE ADDRESSED BY SOME SORT OF WILLY WONKA PREQUEL (BUT ONLY WITH A DE-AGED GENE WILDER)

All I am saying is your arguments aren't in anyway logically consistent. Manhattan did indeed blow up Moscow. Under the theory of MAD endorsed by Watchmen and coined by Dr. Luftbaloons, seconds after Manhattan blew up Moscow, missiles would be flying. They wouldn't be taking a second to watch the news to see if New

If you want to keep harping on the intermediate counterattack angle, you cannot then champion Snyder's ending. It doesn't work on that level. Dr. Manhattan blowing up Moscow was always something the Russians were expecting as that was his role…the ultimate weapon.

To not neuter my language: you could not be more wrong on this and you have it completely backwards.

The word misogynist has lost a lot of power when people assign it to things like the Bechdel test. We have a word. It's called "sexist". Even that is a little heavy handed, but goes a lot more towards a rational discussion than assigning nothing less than hatred of women.