Exactly. For some reason, hearing Bruce Wayne pontificate it in the Nolan films always made me nearly laugh out loud and ruin the movie for the rest of the theater. When Matt says it, I can't help but think of Christian Bale's whispergrowl, but at least I believe Matt means it, and believes he can actually do it.

This is Wilson Fisk, not yet the "Kingpin." He's scary, but then all of his cohorts are scary. He's not yet the man in charge. To Madam Gao, he's a necessary evil. Like any "leader," they're often too close to the forest to see the trees, and hubris does the rest. Wilson Fisk wouldn't be the first gangster to…

Wish I had one for you. Very subtle!

I like Foggy as well. He's getting a lot of bad digital ink from haters who consider him too over the top. I find him much more palatable than he ever was in the comic, so I approach my like for him from a different direction. Regardless, like or hate, he's being ACTED very well.

I wouldn't skip the Miller run because some people say they find it childish or raw or whatever. And it definitely was groundbreaking in its time. I can't make you like it — you didn't grow up reading it and holding something in your hands that just FELT new. It was like real magic was happening in front of you. …

It's good to remember that Miller developed as both writer and artist in front of us - sort of "on the job" with each comic. Just before Miller took over the art, there were some beautifully drawn issues he wrote that John Byrne drew. Sweeping action and repeated figures to show motion. Miller came along and hacked…

I had the same thing happen when I recommended Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke" to some colleagues years after I'd read it. Going back, while it was good, it wasn't GREAT as I'd remembered. Baby steps, though. Miller's DD may seem corny, but the map he redrew not only helped vitalize Marvel, it practically…

I moved to NYC in 1983, and at that time Hell's Kitchen was being changed to the less dangerous "Clinton." Same crappy neighborhood, with a new name to help the realtors jack up the rents. THAT SAID, in the Marvel Universe, where the Red Skull was a big player in WWII, I think it's okay to take for granted that…

Daredevil drinking game? I'm still too drunk from Nolan's Batmen to know which of the three glasses in front of me to lift!

At last — a Complex Villain. Does anyone else remember the TV ads in the 70's for the Time Life Old West series of books, referencing the outlaw who "once killed a man, just for snoring?" We have the update in Wilson Fisk, and perhaps one of the first examples, in the world that translates "mere" comic books to a…

I bet there were A LOT of civilians underneath those giant metal space whales, or thrown out of those buildings the Chitauri went crashing through. It would have undercut "The Avengers" to dip too close to that reality. Reminds me of "Man of Steel," where the entire city is falling down, countless dead and injured,…

Great observation with the 1%/99%! Wilson Fisk/Kingpin vs Matt Murdoch is the microcosm of that. It's like that recent run of Superman, when he walked across the country to get to know the people. I believe somewhere in there someone asked him why he didn't stop all evil everywhere and he said something like…

Really good point. Jack FREED Matt to become the person the kid wanted to be - studious, strong, successful in a more traditional way. Of course, that devil was in him all the time! Thus, the decisions to work both within and outside of the law.

Made me think of Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction. There, Bruce was smart enough and fast enough to JUST stay ahead of Marcellus's men. Jack needed to be a lot faster if he wanted to survive. Let's face it, if he went on the lam, who's to say he'd make it home before the mob took young Matt hostage?

Not the only way. Arteries near the scalp can bleed profusely without head trauma. But your point is a good one - that was a hard hit. Of course, same thing happened in "Gone Girl" and no one said a thing.

Also, didn't that happen in Nolan's 2nd Dark Knight when the Joker sent Batman to save the "wrong" person?

Didn't that happen in some season of 24?

I think he was backed into a corner. A real "palooka" - just because you keep gettting up doesn't mean you'll win! He's old for a boxer and a huge payout opportunity doesn't come across often (think of Rocky). So Jack surely knew this was his last chance to get a big payout. He could have taken the dive and had…

Jack was not violent towards his son, no.

I guess I didn't explain it clearly. You honor the character by writing, acting, directing and editing it well. These four categories are not budget dependent. "Man of Steel" was 100% crap; it did not honor the character (meaning, it ignored the attributes that made the character popular for decades, and instead…