The Godzilla movie took the same tack as James Stokoe's Godzilla: Half Century War by focusing the audience on the life of a single foot soldier. What it should have done was ripped that story off entirely and started with the soldier meeting Godzilla instead of his dad meeting a bug.

And it can't be outdone.

with Marvel throwing their best talent at them, I don't see why they shouldn't succeed.

Plus the sole Inhuman character whose disconnected success suggests she should never have been tied to decades-long sales losers The Inhumans. Because even that didn't help them.

Paris could become the capital of the United Kingdom someday but it don't seem likely soon, bud, and the reason is history.

Here's where I make some comment about the state of a world where we could all just write the next issue of the big-selling Marvel crossover ourselves but it's coming out anyway while the review of Arcus concludes, sadly and correctly, with advance nostalgia for its precarious existence.

I was the right age, and deemed it too cheap-looking to watch.

I agree on Timm and Dini, and your story sounds right in line with how McDuffie treated fans. It was that kind of friendly straight talk to consumers that got him in hot water with DC's fussy corporate types, and Time Warner really could have used his input on movies in the last few years of his life when Marvel was…

I don't remember it either. As far as I know, the New Gods in that cartoon used "boom tube controllers" that looked like one of the comic book Mother Box designs but weren't implied to be alive or otherwise empowered. Superman crushes one in his hand without a second thought, for one thing.

I think it should be less about comparing stats on their baseball cards and more about the meaning behind the fight. It's why I shrug at "Superman would throw Batman into the sun". It's a little funny the first time you hear or read it, but the whole point of putting Batman next to Superman is to show why that's not…

Doesn't that suggest, though, that the main issue is the quality of the movies despite any amount of glad-handing? Nolan's Batman movies are, if anything, more critically acclaimed than the Marvel movies.

I give Goyer a pass because of the Blade and Batman movies he wrote. They're in some ways like Dawn of the Dead for Snyder, a sign of potential wasted later on, but they're also two of the weightiest pieces of evidence that superhero movies could and should show a modicum of adult wit, and both sets of scripts were…

I straight up hate those shows but agree with you otherwise.

Darkseid represents hubris, among other things, and the confidence of Batman's enemies is his superpower in Justice League stories. Not that I'd defend that movie overall, mainly because it's ugly as sin.

Probably the only Validus origin I can stomach, and I love that character's design. He's better unexplained, but if you need to explain him, the idea that he's what Darkseid does to a newborn baby is pretty unnerving.

Another missed opportunity, since semi-adapting the real first Justice League villain's story, Whedon-style, both gives the Justice League something big enough to fight and provides an opportunity to show us Flash vs. Superman or Superman vs. Wonder Woman without coming up with dumb reasons for them to hate each other.

Soderbergh, in his Ocean's series mode.

I am not a gigantic fan of Hickman but he and Ribic got Thanos's death right in "Secret Wars". Thanos confronts Dr. Doom, who is literally God at that point, and tells him with a manic sneer that he doesn't need the Infinity Gauntlet to stop Doom, because Thanos by himself will suffice to kill God. Then God waves his…

Kirby's work always had this wild feeling around the edges, like the heroes were working to stop something too big to be seen in its true & terrible glory. It's that multimedia-collage mentality you can see in Fantastic Four, Thor and Kirby's Superman books. It's why Grant Morrison has a crush on the New Gods and why,…

Timm and Dini deserve credit for making a Justice League cartoon possible, especially with the voice cast the show could swing based on their Batman cartoons, but McDuffie's episodes and his later work running the writers' room were what made the team work as a story for a non-comics audience.