The advent of a la carte music streaming has come across to me as if we had invented a Star trek style replicator that can make any kind of food instantly, and it turns out all people want to eat is hamburgers.

I just worry that it (or any knew music) will have a hard time going 'overground' in the future because of the sheer pervasiveness of the internet culture industry that chews up all the attention. The game may have changed too much.

I agree with you that the DD movie is underrated. The casting was excellent, especially the supporting cast like Michael Clark Duncan and Joe Pantoliano. Affleck actually seems like a better choice now, with Mark Waid's cocksure Daredevil in the comics, than he did in the era of Bendis' mope machine. The director's…

Yeah, but that doesn't make it bad

Well, I AM history's greatest monster.

"It’s easy to imagine an angsty teen blasting Evanescence while devouring dark and gritty Daredevil comics, nursing adolescent crushes on Amy Lee, Matt Murdock, and/or Elekra Natchios."

Yes, but my point was that superhero movies are NOT intended to realistically address the real-world roots of crime or provide answers for how to deal with them. Any more than romance novels are supposed to cover the full psychological spectrum of a human emotions. They're fantasy.

The problems is that you're arguing that these structural inequalities are the sole cause of all crime and the main lens through which to understand crime. And that's not an absolute truth, it's just one sociological paradigm. There are others. And even if it was the case, those aren't issues that superhero stories…

But see, that's the thing.:I don't really see how it's 'pop metal'. To me that describes, say, Quiet Riot. TBA is heavier than Dio or early Iron Maiden, and they're still considered 'tru metal' right? Unless we're grading on a curve of post 90s metal where anything with clean vocals is considered 'pop'.

Interesting to seeing two new country music artists reviewed on the same day, and only a few weeks after the Kacey Musgraves review.
Following where the money is? Or is The AV Club genuinely interested in expanding its music coverage?
Either way I'm happy for any new non-indie, non-electronic, non-hip-hop…

I'm kinda bummed that popular opinion has turned against Metallica's Black Album. At the time it was thought that all the fans who cried 'sell-out!' were just hipsters. Nowadays - I guess thanks to the increasingly shitty albums Metallica put out since then - people act as if The Black Album was a total pop makeover…

That's a long speech, but nothing in it really applies to Batman. He spends most of his time in the comics going after the corrupt organisations and the powerful: crime lords, terrorists, out-of-control espionage agencies, corrupt police, hidden manipulators. Plus the occasional serial killer. And he never deals out…

The only one of these question sI care about (and I care a lot as it's a legitimate question) is the last one. That was the worst, most obvious case of Trinity Syndrome I've seen since The Lego Movie. I really REALLY hope that Hope suits up in Civil War. otherwise it's a long tease until Ant-Man 2.

Great review. Sounds like a movie engineered to rub me the wrong way.

I refuse to watch this until Poehler returns to being a blonde. #boycottpoehler

That's exactly how I felt six years ago when I first got into comics. I still haven't read all the classic comic runs that I wanted to.

I have a feeling that the only reason this narrative is kept alive is that the Genovese murder is mentioned in every psychology textbook as the inspiration for research into prosocial behaviour and the bystander effect.

What sort of backwards BS is this? What kind of asshat doesn't appreciate a new song from Leonard f-ing Cohen? The lyrics alone are better than 90% of what's out there, and the artificial motorik beat of the song reflects the 'always moving but going nowhere' feel of the massive motorways the opening credits are based…

I wish more superhero writers thought that way.

One thing I've noticed with the recent explosion (since the superhero movie boom) of 'How to get into comics' guide on the net, is that for Marvel and DC they tend to recommend left-of-center 'indie-like' comics. Ala Hawkeye, Ms Marvel and Batgirl. Not that there's a problem with this per se, as these are great…