Exactly. Man of Steel was a game changer - but it's not the right game for DC. They are ruining Superman. Why? Because they changed the DNA of what made the character truly great and unique for decades. Superman is supposed to embody hope - not directionless self-questioning. God that movie pissed me off.

Interestingly enough, I sensed this as a kid, living in a suburb 3,000 miles from NYC. Marvel always felt more "real" — although I was surprised as hell when I finally moved to NY and found that there were maybe only 2 or 3 actual ALLEYS in Manhattan!

Iron Man was much more in the early Marvel days. Stan Lee, smartly, needed a "go to" for all the cool technology that they were introducing to the comics. It couldn't ALL be on Reed Richard's back.

Years ago I saw a comics writer panel with Steve Englehart, it was just before Miller reinvented DD. Englehart said, "Daredevil is no longer the Man Without Fear - now he's the Man Without Brains!" Thankfully, that was fixed, until later writers went over the top trying to trump Frank Miller.

DD was a Spider-Man "also ran" for years until Frank Miller reset the story — and this is important — NOT by rebooting, but by fleshing out the origin and getting back to basics. It was a brilliant move and time for Marvel, and that's why we're loving this show today.

It was, 50 years ago. But it lapped "Batman" in the 70's, and because of Frank Miller's "Dark Knight" series in the 80's, that's how DC got there.

Ha! If ever a character needed a mutant regenerating power!

The third Nolan Batman should be stricken from the record. Nolan painted himself into a corner and the result was ludicrous and inauthentic.

DC just frustrates me. Disney surprised me by not messing too much (except the kid in Iron Man 3!) with the Marvel trademark style. But Warner/DC films are all disjointed. I don't know how they're going to pull off their assembling of the characters in their upcoming movies with such disparate "tones" of the…

DD's new direction in the comics is just dumb. Mark Waid did no favors here.

Thanks to Frank Miller, who's Daredevil comic became his template for the gift he gave to DC with the "Dark Knight," it fits squarely in the darker side of the Marvel Universe from the late 70's. I'd say it feels so "alive" because it isn't encumbered by the baggage of the DC world.

Rosario Dawson is another example of pitch-perfect casting. Such chemistry between she and Cox. Not sure if others have commented, but there was an old Marvel romance comic, back before superheros became their main game, called "Night Nurse." Years later, in a really great Doctor Strange miniseries, we learned that…

Thanks for a great review, and for digging deep into the various details this week. Many good points made. So far this final "season" is feeling very — off — to me. Not sure if it's the long lapse since last year, or if it's part of a grand plan of Weiner's to wind it all down, but I do hope, even while swirling…

I have no complaints about Daredevil, because the entire team is "aiming high." Your review was well-considered and covered a lot of bases Well done. I am a huge believer that, if it ain't broke, don't fix it — and Daredevil has a remarkable pedigree from its comic book genesis over 50 years ago. DD has been…

While I agree with so many of the points you made regarding Daredevil's print origins and how interestingly and effectively the adaptation is going, some of your larger points about style and format seem off. "Daredevil’s creative team has produced something with very little sense of urgency." Really? I've not…

It's more of a guidline than a rule……

Nailed, it, Cap.

Episode 8 uses Richie's homosexuality to drive the entire plot. Another excuse for the "loving family" to torture someone they purportedly care about. Pure crap.

Don't. You really never get that 8 hours back.

"The Slap" was the worst show on television this year. Pretentious in it portentousness, boring in its faux reflective stance, screaming with so much sanctimony that any sort of reasonable "debate" or "conversation" about anything having to do with being a parent was impossible. Sketches of either mundane or…