Trump *is* by far the worst presidential candidate we've ever had in this country, right?

So you unfollowed them for spamming your Twitter feed, not for "voting for Jill Stein"?

I don't know what that has to do with what I'm saying, really. I'm saying there's a particular issue here, and it's not spontaneous: comedy writing and political conversation have dovetailed, so comics do more serious speech-ifying about politics nowadays.

We all have the "right" in most of contemporary Western society. It's the choice that's the issue, and the unpleasant developments that have made that choice seem wise to this particular group.

They certainly come across like how Ang Lee composed Hulk, but in my opinion, that's too formalist an adaptation to convey the spirit of those pages. The big action scene in Civil War eschewed parroting comic-page compositions in everything but its cover-ready "everyone runs at everyone" teaser shot, and I think a lot…

From what little I know about Marvel Studios, big-name talent participation tends to come down to whether an actor or actress is willing to sign a multi-picture deal for less than they'd usually be paid per picture and make up the pay cut in other related income.

The climactic action scenes of both Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron prove severely underwhelming, especially on a second watch. They seem to have a hard time getting away from something that looks like a video game cut-scene, with a bunch of quick, unimpressive shots of the main cast flinging around super-powered…

You "had to"?

It's one of the most insufferable things about contemporary political discourse, that it has so much in common with comedy writing that comics now all think they have trenchant political opinions.

It feels even more right to Disney that Marvel TV characters have conversations about Star Wars movie characters in the fourth quarter of 2016.

Good point. The "shared universe" notes springing from season after season of multiple Marvel Entertainment shows would likely be a nightmare. There's a reason the folks behind Star Trek series waited until after each respective series was done to release movies with the same cast. I remember how "Deep Space Nine"…

I think it's the exact opposite: if a bunch of average yo-yos had recently acquired superpowers, it would be much harder to sell a movie where two groups of sympathetic good guys had a serious fight over whether "enhanced" law enforcement agents should be put under greater control and scrutiny, because in that case,…

What they're thinking is that the people who make the movies and the people who make the TV shows are two separate branches of Disney, and the branch that makes the movies is making a ton more money and largely responsible for anyone at all watching the TV shows.

"A lot more epic"… strange how that word's lost its impact.

I know I'm not the first person to say it, but that scene in Civil War was the first time I've seen the energy of a comic book splash page translated to the big screen.

This would have been a good opportunity for Marvel Studios to try on something non-quippy for once.

People are so picky.

While this Halloween, I was the one coming for your kids.

Then again, "Coffee & TV" was a smart, cynical choice for that particular scene when they could have used a ton of stupidly unsexy "sexy" songs instead of one rightly suggesting that what you were watching was fake, trite, tired and bored.

It's a bittersweet symphony. That's life.