Yeah, it always really took me out of the story reading old Marvel comics (when continuity between titles was typically much tighter, e.g. if Wolverine is guest starring in someone else’s book in the November issue, the November issue of X-Men is going to mention that Wolverine isn’t there because he’s off having an…

That is some real re-writing history. I was in college when Entourage came out and in its first couple of seasons it was HUGE with most of my friends (and I’ll admit that I enjoyed it from time to time, though I was never that big of a fan). But well before the show ended most of those same guys had decided “actually,…

After the last decade of books being adapted to TV shows I have come to feel very strongly that no single book should ever be adapted over the course of more than one season. There’s only one book with no sequel? Cool, you’re making a limited series, not an ongoing.

I love it so much that I got hyped for a movie adaptation without even pausing to notice that this movie is called The Tomorrow War, not The Forever War. 

Oh goddamnit, I saw the headline and thought this was going to be an adaptation of the book by Joe Haldeman. This looks much less interesting. 

Yeah, I just think if they’re going to do it they can put a bit more thought into it. There are a lot of very smart, thoughtful political theorists and writers out there who are also huge comic book fans and who I’m sure would be willing to spend a couple of hours helping MCU writers think this stuff through for free.

I’m sorry, are you seriously trying to fucking argue that the fact that not all African-Americans were held in slavery or legally treated as second class citizens when George Washington was elected means that the United States doesn’t have a long and vicious history of racism? What, because not every single African…

I have seen vanishingly few new movies in the last year so I don’t have an opinion on the merits of the Best Actor award, but it seems obvious that the producers moved this award last hoping that Boseman would win and they’d end on a moment of big emotional catharsis. That’s a really risky bet though because they had…

I thought that everything having to do with Sam’s journey to becoming Captain America and the weight of a Black Captain America was fantastic. The story of Bucky continuing to right his past wrongs and heal from the trauma he went through as the Winter Solider was less well done but I thought entertaining enough (for…

That’s interesting and I think you’re on to something. When Steve comes out of the ice (including in the comics) he’s clearly dismayed by modern American imperialism - I think it’s an interesting question of whether Steve Rogers, holding all else constant, would still have the views that he does if either he was born…

I think the show is actually doing a pretty good job of examining Sam and why he ultimately is a worthy successor as Captain America, primarily by showing different versions of what Sam could be and why being like that would make him unworthy.

I would actually love if the show did the exact same thing as the comic and had their big reveal be Mockingbird. There was so much buildup about a major character coming back and then when they were like “It’s Mockingbird! The character everyone knows and loves, whose death devastated the Avengers!” I had literally…

Oh sure, but when I smoked weed every day for my entire first semester of college I had to pay them for the privilege. 

This looks rad as hell. I’ve always loved Marvel’s batshit crazy kung fu stuff, which is why it’s so frustrating that their only previous attempt to bring it to live action sucked (looking at you, Iron Fist) and even a lot of their print stories aren’t very good (looking at you, 95% of the Iron Fist comics that have…

I’m looking forward to this - I went into S1 knowing very little about the show and basically just watched because I think Aidy Bryant is hilarious and it was such an unexpected delight. I think it does a much better job than most premium channel “comedies” at dealing with serious societal issues in an honest,…

Unless LW #1 has addiction issues or the drugs in question were extremely hardcore, his girlfriend completely overreacted and he’s gotta get out of there. Unless he’s leaving out A LOT of backstory about his prior drug use and how it has impacted his relationship, this is just about his girlfriend wanting to control…

I’m excited for this - it looks gorgeous and it seems like they’re really trying to do some new stuff and dive into some of the weirder parts of the comics. That combo of cool visuals that we haven’t seen in a MCU property before and unique storytelling was what impressed me most about Wandavision and is sorely…

I’m enjoying the character work but the pacing of this show feels totally off - like it drags when it should be moving forward and speeds past things when it should let them breathe. All in all this feels like they had a 2, 2 1/2 hour movie and decided to artificially stretch it out into a miniseries and I don’t think…

Yeah, my sister is a clinical therapist for people with eating disorders and talking to her about her job and some of the shit her clients go through has really opened my eyes to how unhealthy our whole discourse around eating and our bodies is.

I know that it’s easy to say he’s good looking, he gets paid quite well to be impossibly muscular, and what straight man wouldn’t enjoy that kind of attention from women, so what does he have to complain about. But I’ve read multiple interviews with him where his feelings about his body and the unhealthy things he…