I have the same bias, but I think it's a clever idea to bridge the gap between PC and console controls. You can give each console game as many buttons as it needs and no more.

Nintendo is one of the few companies that has told audiences what they want and gotten away with it. It hasn't done them wonders on their most recent go at it, but I wouldn't count them out, even if we assumed those images were real.

I noticed that! And then it became about other dimensions. I was sad. That guy is at least from someplace that could give him the spirit to write about it. But I imagine there's some guilt over Shuster & Siegel that enters the picture for anyone who wants to make Superman a champion of the people again.

By far my favorite, and it's the era that made Superman a smash hit. If Time Warner or DC responded to right-wing criticism by bringing back the real original Superman, eyes would burst from their sockets.

I thought red kryptonite was the kind where you don't know what's going to happen, and hijinks ensue to the length of somewhere between one to one-third comic books. You could end up trying to coach Octo-man The Eight Armed Superman in a plate-spinning contest to keep Lois Lane from marrying Bing Crosby.

One of Superman's earliest stories had him going undercover to check out unsafe conditions in a mine, then personally punishing the mine owner and his rich cronies.

It's a good point. I was waiting for Morrison to go there during "Batman, Inc.", but he just kind of used the idea to make jokes, which was a waste. His earlier Batman comic bought him a mansion and that seems to have warped his brain a little.

I don't think that's a real problem in the world. I don't have any reason to believe it's a problem, either. I do understand, however, how confronting those ideas can make men uncomfortable. It's a good opportunity to become a stronger person.

I'm sorry you think that, because it's incorrect. You seem to have a lot of emotion invested in this. Perhaps it's time to clear your head.

I can go either way on Clowes but this looks like his cup of tea. I'll pick it up.

Most of Superman's assets don't appreciate and can't be cashed in, though, for various reasons. He'd have to find someone who would give him a loan using them as collateral. He'd be better off earning money in the thousands of ways his abilities would let him do that - building a new Central American canal, crushing…

I'm still not sold on the design. There would be complaints up the ass if the character were all CGI, and Singer appears to want to avoid that in every case possible, but I still would have preferred the traditional look to the guy, tall as Manute Bol and as wide across as the defensive line of the Oakland Raiders, to…

And Singer and Vaughn both liking Mystique as the sex-ambiguous stalking horse for Erik and Charles wanting to marry each other. Mystique is, in a way, the ultimate drag queen. I think Lawrence's prominence as an actress is a factor but not the only one, or the only big one.

They let people do reviews speaking the current language of popular culture, and you've fallen behind and don't want to go through the motions. That's okay, but realize there's a gap between you and what's going on right now and it's not everyone else's responsibility to meet you.

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But how many John Carter of Mars movies do you think were floating around in those producers' heads at night, not to mention the people managing the money? The history of the project seems to suggest it was three or four more.

"Sharks Don't Sleep" in the first "Captain America: Civil War" trailer showed some thought. I think I read this in the comments here first, but it meshed well with the lines and visuals to suggest tumultuous friendships marching inevitably toward conflict: Bucky & Captain America, Captain America & Iron Man,…

I like Reeve in the role a great deal; heck, I think Kidder does a fantastic job with what she's given; I just think people view Lex Luthor in hindsight as a much more serious guy, thanks to some great versions of him in the later cartoons and in the Morrison/Porter JLA (and all the "official" versions of Luthor…

Well, it is a "war"…

In Singer's other movies, they angst over their lovers, exes, crushes and so on, right in line with the best-known "X-Men" stories. I'd even call that the bigger part of Singer's X-Men movies. This one doesn't look so hot in that regard, but maybe the trailers just suck?