I always thought the whole idea was a gamble, but one that had a chance to succeed if you could appeal to people who like either musicals OR superheroes, which is a much larger group than people who like both musicals AND superheroes. And even if it didn't work, I like seeing other people gamble sometimes.

I think that the Steinman project fell apart after his Dance of the Vampires became the pre-Spider-Man biggest flop of all time.

I'm genuinely sorry that there will never be another Newswire article about this show (I feel like, just by saying that, I've condemned some actor to a horrible fate). That period of early 2011, I think, Newswire was a bright spot in my life.

Of course, it needn't even be The Hulk. There are dozens of minor gamma-irradiated characters, they can't be saving all of them for the Hulk franchise, just say there's a gamma sickness outbreak in the favelas of Rio.
Actually, here's how you do a Hulk episode with no budget at all: you get Mark Ruffalo (which…

I took that to be a suggestion that Skye might still go to her traitorous hippie comrades from Outside The System. That bridge (composed of one guy) seemed so thoroughly burned and also boring that maybe they meant someone else, but I think they're still trying to milk some tension out of Rising Tide.

Brother Voodoo or GTFO

Wrong one. History will vindicate that one right up until they make it to Iceland.

History will vindicate that one, although it will do so in spite of Denise Richards.

The Overkill Horn is, in and of itself, fan-service. It was something that got used by Hydra, I think, back in the old Strange Tales. As such, I for one, was giddy to see it used at all. Something that actually ties back to Kirby/Steranko S.H.I.E.L.D. is always going to be more welcome to me than acting like…

That you never trust him doesn't mean that he never tells the truth, though. Telling someone the truth, knowing they won't believe you, is also a trick.

It looked like it was having fun!

I'm slowly becoming a fan of the overall aesthetic of this series. I think there's something about the way they mix the fantasy and sci-fi elements that's very Jack Kirby, very Chariots of the Gods by way of Flash Gordon. It's a harder mix to achieve than one might think; the old video stores were littered with the…

Something that bears repeating about this: It's easy for the people making the movie to say "Spider-Man's a wiry little guy, he's just radioactively strong. Henry Cavill is a healthy looking guy, but no one would think he was strong enough to throw a train. We can cast whatever heroin chic gamine we want because…

Thanks, Obama!!

"Beyond Season 1 the TV series is pretty bad."

You THINK you can. By the time you get to the subtle differences between multiverses, elseworlds, and hypertimes, DC will have rebooted and you'll have to start over.

Nothing compares to the Wolverine/Neal Conan team-up though.

If DC went balls crazy enough to have one Flash for their movie universe and another one for their TV universe and occasionally have them each cross over into the other, setting up an Earth 1/Earth 2 situation between the TV shows and the movies, where the characters in question just attuned their vibrations to the…

"Marvel has their own comic book version of Thor (an idea I still don't entirely get my head around.)"

They tried it again just three or four years ago, though, with David E. Kelley at the helm. AV Club talked about it all the time. I think it made it to a pilot episode. Also Joss Whedon failed to get his Wonder Woman feature made. None of this indifference reminds of the "string of bad luck prevents a highly…