I would check out Scott Snyder's The Court of Owls/Night of the Owls (they may have combined it into one volume at this point, but in any case it's one story). It's one of the best Batman stories I've read, with some incredibly memorable artwork. And you don't need to read anything before or after for it to make sense.

I think he's pretty straightforward in his references to old work.
I wasn't aware there was a Grant Morrison story where Jim Gordon dons a government-funded robotic Batsuit, though.
When it comes to superhero comics (especially ones that have been going on since…what, the 1940's?) this is kind of inevitable. But it…

I really love what Snyder and Capullo have been doing with Batman. Snyder can be a little too clever for his own good, sometimes (i.e. needlessly having a whole aside about how the numbers on Joker's cell in Arkham corresponded to the word HA. That would be a cool easter egg to discover, but when you spell it out it…

I haven't seen these movies but the animation I've seen in the trailer is pretty incredible. It *feels* like Tartakovsky, which is hard to do in the transition from 2D to 3D.

Year-late response!
Well, the pilot was still in the cockpit, and he was alive, remember? So that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Unless you're suggesting that Smokey lured them there to kill some of the candidates, which is possible.
You're spot on about Kate's comment about there being "smoke in the valley"…

The introduction of Miles was pretty surprising; I was waiting for the moment when we would find out that he was a hack (like the Australian 'psychic' who Claire sees, and Mr. Eko confronts). The fact that he legitimately has these powers seems to point to the show officially taking a step into the mystical.
Even…

Well, dammit.

Curiously, they never do show the forehead tattoo. I suspect they're removing it in post.

Scott Snyder's current Batman run is pretty prolific; he can be a little too clever for his own good, but it's definitely the most popular take on the character since…Morrison, probably?

Which itself was a ripoff of the Dark Knight Rises trailer, which had the kid singing the creepy national anthem (which, to be fair, was actually in the movie)

Ah, but did you notice that Will Smith was wearing a hat in a lot of these shots? That's called acting!

I found it interesting that they cut Joker's forehead off for the final shot of the trailer. I'll bet they remove the "damaged" tattoo in post after the universally negative reaction to it.

Well, it does have the word suicide in the title.

It actually looks pretty good! Honestly, I think they should have gone with the painted-on smile for Joker. The tattoos are bad enough; without the crude painted-on smile it just looks like Leto with makeup.
In any case I actually think aesthetically his dumbass tattoos do fit into the movie. They're still pretty on…

MI: III is still my favorite. Seymour-Hoffman's performance is unreal, and it has one of the best opening scenes to a movie, ever. Seriously. That's a solid-ass action movie.
Ghost Broticol had the set-pieces though.

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Mostly he just needs a good script. I really like Man of Steel but…that's not a good screenplay. I can't remember a single line from that movie and I've seen it plenty of times. Sucker Punch, 300, Watchmen (arguably)—bad scripts, all of them. If you were to take his visuals and combine it with a good script you'd…

You, sir, have clearly not seen a whole lot of Michael Bay movies.

"I think the bigger issue is that Superman literally doesn't save a single person when said collateral damage is happening"
Yeah the film really needed a sequence like the plane crash bit in Superman Returns (which is a movie that relies way to heavily on the Superman-saving-people-from-falling-stuff thing. After the…

The learning to fly sequence, with Russel Crowe's voiceover, is flat-out my favorite Superman scene in a movie, ever. Man of Steel has its problems, but goddamn if that isn't a beautifully shot film. The shots of Smallville in particular are just gorgeous, but also purposeful. Snyder was going for a film that…