Knowing him, yes, and the funny part is that in this case, it was Dwayne McDuffie who did it.

I'd love an earnest, uplifting Superman movie right about now, but the easier path to money is to do all the things they've done wrong there all over again but add more laughs, so people don't remember those downer scenes.

We'll almost certainly get Darkseid in the contemporary style, where the other New Gods and their supporting cast are either absent or minor characters. Color me skeptical on this Steppenwolf business.

Right, but I feel they only think that because in their heads, everyone falls into the "Marvel fanatic" or "DC fanatic" buckets, which is odd to me because presumably they read comic books, and comic book fans are the first people you'd want to consult on the mutual problems of the brands.

Fastest Man Alive joke. *fills out DC movie Bingo card*

I haven't seen it but it's funny that Deathlok is sort of a Marvelized proto-Cyborg but is without a doubt way too gross to work in Marvel's current TV and movie lines. The only way to get that character across is to make the audience feel what it would be like to be an embalmed corpse with car parts visible through…

To be fair, costume Cyborg doesn't sound feasible or attractive. If you did it well, it would end up as the sort of kid-inappropriate body horror they're all likely being told to avoid by Time Warner. If you didn't, you run the same risk Cyborg always runs, where since the 1980s there have been non-stop new characters…

Ah, the "Watchman trailer" coping mechanism.

I think it seems exactly what was expected. "New villain" is Darkseid, as though they would somehow not use him when they're placing Geoff Johns into the "creative officer" position in the movie division (Johns used Darkseid for his first, "how they met" rebooted Justice League story, though Johns shows no…

The mentality of these movies' defenders states that if you don't like DC, you must love Marvel, and vice versa. It's a weird world in their heads.

Because Disney's Marvel movies are fair to middling while Time Warner's DC movies have been a critical laughingstock for years. Because they're mostly very bad.

The newly formed team will take on a common threat in a story that borrows from Jack Kirby

Weird. Last night I dreamed the Coen brothers directed an adaptation of Deadman and secured their usual A-list cast by having everyone play the title role at some point.

Jeff Goldblum: master of the commercial.

Telling that story in a way that would make a mark on opening weekend would mean adding the exact sort of special effects crap you would fear most if you like that book.

That level of historical revisionism would never fly.
~Bryan Singer skates by and Auschwitz explodes~

Elder Scrolls VI, losers.

I'd guess the average buyer is around a decade too young.

The Scan Visor was fine with me… Can't muster a strong opinion on the Scan Visor.

Adaptations should be discouraged. They should happen but shouldn't be ubiquitous.