it's still sexist and more than a little terrible as a result. The whole way the scene is written is terrible. And Eddie comes off better here.

I really hope you are joking. Iris is an adult. She's not at home. That means that she gets to say whether she wants "protecting" or not. (Am I misreading you?)

Yeah, I am a working journalist and I can't imagine anyone getting hired for the "inside angle" on a story unless they produced. That is, you'd have to pitch your story as a freelancer and then show the editor you could do it. And maybe, maybe, in a one-in-a-thousand chance you might get hired. And you'd still be…

I liked this but I am agreeing with a numbr of points made by other commenters about Iris. The writers really, really treat women badly.

Well, that's the thing. There are very, very strict physical limits on airships, just as there are on airplanes. We've had a century of design experience with airships and you just can't get around Boyle's law and buoyancy. Just as with airplanes you need a certain shape of wing and a certain amount of fuel depending…

One reason airships nvr got off the ground (pun intended) as transport was that airplanes were faster. In wartime, that mattered.

Apropos of @avclub-e31106d0d76be7443d4a5cedbb5ce7ec:disqus —- that last panel could be a poster or painting in its own right. I admit I am not sold on Batman's posture/pose there — I like it but I almost feel that it doesn't quite contrast with Dragon's enough and ends up looking, ironically, almost too static, but I…

@disqus_jeTusCb3OY:disqus and @LeaveTheBronx:disqus — talent is one of those things that really is a small component. I might have a natural talent for math but if I never see a math book I won't ever use it. (Or it is very unlikely). A lot of it is just putting the hours in.

Agreed and the whole concept is pretty dumb anyway. Thus far kping Iris in the dark has been manifestly unhelpful every freaking time.

True but I have seen them use a similar tactic on L&O episodes, that is, cops saying "we have a witness" and scaring the accused into confessing. It's easy enough and if the defense counsel isn't savvy enough (or buys it also) to call the bluff at trial you're good.

Saw this just now. And here's something that I think was (maybe) a function of the over-stuffed-ness and to b generous, the writers didn't give themselves any room… but what's with the whole "Brazil" lie?

Another thing BTW is that if a car hits you and backs up over you, that
lave a lot of evidence right there, too — for one thing the bruising would be on *two* sides of you and there would be *two* sets of tire marks, so it would be a homicide at
the very least rather than vehicular homicide, which in MA used to get
you…

Ya know, I don't know if anyone brought this up — but something I sort of dig about this is the way they do the murder investigations. Thus far there hasn't been anything in the info they get that couldn't have been picked up without the visions — it would just have taken a lot more work. For instance, the type of car…

yeah that movie was pretty bad. Spielberg was a completely messed-up choice for that one, which almost demands an animated treatment or, failing that, a design from Jim Henson's crew. I rally liked Gerber an Colan's versions the best.

I will have to check if Mantlo wrote the stories I liked — it's been 30+ years. I did think that the whole Jim Jones parody worked, and I admit my opinion was colored by my father a bit, who was a veteran of what was then a relatively recent protest movement — he thought the co-optation theme worked well (I think IIRC…

I have to say (It's in another comment too) th larg format magazine had some pretty funky stories that worked. The Jim Jones parody and giant Monopoly board were all right, but I am not sure if Bill Mantlo wrote those. Subtlety was not his strong point. Tho I have a soft spot for Mantlo, given what happened to him.

I am dating myself a lot here, but I would hope that they can make this iteration of Howard the Duck as good a piece of social commentary as it was when Steve Gerber and later Michael Golden and Gene Colan (when HtD was a large-format magazine) were doing it.

I could sort of get into the first film if I turned off my brain, but the problem was that th whole social system is so poorly thought out. Even if one were to take it as read that it is *SPOILERS FOR A BOOK SERIES YEARS OLD* some kind of weird experiment, it's just too hard to believe such a structure lasting for…

I havent watched the US version much, I was just disappointed that they were supposed to be in Boston and somehow didn't manage to do that— I know location filming can be expensive, but as a native of the area, i kind'a hoped they'd make better use of it. If there were ever a city in the US suited to a…

I hadn't realized— I watched them in the US on BBC America. Too bad. BBC 3 seemed to have a great run of it, then. I won't say they were all home runs, but at last I felt like they were trying to stretch genres a bit.