A movie doesn’t get a pass for being ‘brave’ if it’s version of ‘bravery’ is to take away everything that works about an IP and replace it with stuff that’s much stupider.

DC seems to have defaulted to their primary setting of making grimdark anti-hero stories for adolescent-minded fanboys. It’s like they can’t even understand what made WW a hit, and are treating it like some weird random anomaly.

They did it because a lot of fanboys prefer it. Batman is ‘badass’ now they say.

I like America Chavez, and I LOVE Kate Bishop, and I especially enjoyed the Fifth Element references in the first issue. But I tapped out when they started doing Beyonce Homages. Maybe I’ll pick this up in trade.

If you think Wanted the movie is mean-spirited, you should try reading the original comic*

There’s a dark undercurrent to Neeson’s reinvention of an action star, isn’t there? I seem to remember that this movie came out just after his wife died, and he threw himself into work to cope with it. And since Taken sequels and knock-offs were on the table, that’s what we got.

People have really started to tout the Batman warehouse fight from Batman V Superman as ‘the best Batman fight scene ever’ which really bugs be. Because no matter how well choreographed or executed it is, it’s utterly hollow. There’s no emotional connection to the outcome of the fight, or to Batman as a character in…

Hollywood rule #1: Never count James Cameron out

I find it interesting that both Joshua Homme and Steven Wilson - who are arguably two of the last artists making rock music music who’ve had any shot at reaching the mainstream - have both released their take on ‘pop’ music this year.

I gave up on King's Batman book - which I had been really forward to! - so I'm a bit wary of this. I'm reluctant to get into any new DC books at the moment until after they finally finalize everything about Rebirth, once Metal and the stupid Watchmen crossover are done.

I particularly like how he uses a series of still images to create an illusion of movement

'SMILF' sounds like a long-lost Brian Wilson project that should have stayed lost

Exactly maybe earlier Bowie music…

Yeah I agree that Achtung Baby is the better album, but it's like comapring Dark Side Of The Moon to Wish You Were Here.

Yep. And 'Little Wonder' and 'Seven Years In Tibet'. It was dismissed at the time as a washed-up rocker (this was 5 years after Tin Machine) appropriating cutting edge culture - which is what Bowie has always done!

The single mix of 'Please' - with the strings - is a U2 top 20 track IMO

The band consider Pop 'unfinished' because the release deadline was too soon for them to finish mixing the tracks. I vastly prefer to murky, late night feel of the album to the re-recorded version the band put on their Best-Of album. As I understand it, they've just written that whole era off completely, which is sad.

Same with David Bowie, whose 1997 album Earthling is also an underrated rock/techno hybrid.

Zooropa. It's just so weird and singular and inventive. It's like a time capsule of the pre-internet cyberpunk / new world order globalization / pomo hyperreality era

My first - and still second favourite - U2 album. I think I'm alone in that.