If they go there, it'll be quite a massive betrayal of the character. I mean, I know the whole point of that story was "See how the FILTH of the EIGHTIES consumes even the sweetest girl!?!?" but at least at that point Miller was kind of projecting on to a blank slate of a character. Here, Karen lives and breathes…

I'd say Kingpin is one of the Top Five Marvel villains.

"The villain who doesn't think he's evil. The hero who's willing to sacrifice personal happiness for his cause."

There's exceptions along the "preventing an imminent crime" lines. But it doesn't seem like Diane- or anyone else at FAL would be able to speak to that kind of thing. Indeed, they don't even really have confirmation of Bishop's PAST crimes.

Yes, but the most unrealistic thing TGW has ever done is present the Democratic Party as so efficient and organized.

While we're on the subject, Illinois doesn't have a filibuster, local authorities control voting machines, and lawyers don't carry such strict liability on false evidence.

The problem there is that Alicia would have a pretty massive malpractice case against Rifkin's character, and she ought to know that.

I couldn't get over the fact that Diane let Kalinda be in on all of the strategy meetings, as opposed to immediately firing her…out of a cannon…into a brick wall.

It's really weird to think that "social justice warrior" is an insult.

"MCU Nick Fury is based on Ultimate Nick Fury, so it's not changing anything that hadn't existed."

I always lump this episode together with the Armin Tanzarian one. I can keep them apart, but they're both controversial meta episodes that have been cited as the line of demarcation between "Good Simpsons" and "Bad Simpsons".

"and the clock is reset at the end of each episode"

I'm not entirely sure Grimes *was* right; we the audience have definitely seen Homer fail, and be humiliated, and get kicked around, etc. And for as nice as the Simpsons' house is, most episodes show them barely holding on. Yes, Homer has done some cool stuff, but given the show's flexible continuity*, it's never…

Yeah, I grok that, and I'm frustrated, too, but I'm just wondering if further issues literally came out at all (Looks like two more did, and we're waiting on a third).

Okay, let's talk about Hawkeye. Did the Fraction/Aja Hawkeye ever…end? The last issue I remember is the sign language one. WTF happened?

It's kinda interesting how the Original SIn tie-ins in Avengers and Spider-Man dovetailed so well with the mega-arcs those series were already heading toward.

I'm not sure the specifics you address actually support the conclusion you draw. The MCU is, what, 9 movies? You've said yourself that 3 of those movies were at least trying to break the mold (and I'd argue that "First Avenger" was, too, and that IM1 and Thor1 definitely had different flavors, though I guess those…

The problem isn't that that "DC only does gritty"; Green Lantern wasn't gritty, and you damned well HAVE to make your Batman movies gritty.

Yeah, the genius of the Waid run is that it's a sharp break from the guy who's girlfriend sells him out for smack and carves messages into dudes' foreheads.

This is exactly where the seams start to show on the shared universe (which is, in general, a pretty brilliant idea, and has so far been fairly deftly used in the MCU). Excluding logical elements of that universe from certain storylines doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but bringing them into that storyline would…