There were generally three strains of prog in the 70s: spacey, post-psychedelic 'head' music with sci-fi themes (Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, early Rush); pastoral, literary programme music (Yes, Genesis, Canterbury bands), and bombastic, aggressive downer music (ELP, King Crimson, most Krautrock bands). The latter had a lot…

Wowwww. It's like someone wrote a book just for me.

I don't disagree with anything you said, but where is any of this being portrayed inaccurately? There are tons of movies about all of these topics you've mentioned. if anything, I've seen more movies about the dark side of the 50s than I have anything focused on happy smiling suburbanites.

Well if we're throwing reductive stereotypes around, I bet YOU wrote a lengthy blog post about how 'Anaconda' is actually a post-feminist empowerment anthem.

What about YOUNG men, like myself, talking about the genius of the Eagles?

Journey's album covers always struck me as excessively fantastical for what is fairly basic (albeit kick-ass and tuneful) pop-rock music.

I'm a heroic fantasy fan before anything else, and while Lord of The Rings, Wheel Of Time, etc are great books, The Neverending Story IS Fantasy incarnate.

"as opinions about music go, knee-jerk Nickelback-bashing has become as smug and cliché and dopey as "I like all kinds of music but country and rap.'"

I don't mind this trope because there's a lot of spec fix around now about how humans are dreadful at heart, screwing up the planet, inclined to violence, self-destructive, whatever.

That's cute and all, but this was already done in Scott Snyder's current Batman run, except there it was about how Batman can survive to protect Gotham forever.

Can someone help me out here. My younger cousin was such a huge fan of these books that I decided to try them out. I bought Alanna The First Adventure and I was really disappointed. Not casting any judgements here, but I found it to be the very definition of a Mary Sue story. The protagonist was an instant expert at…

Greater range of expression =/= More believable emotions

I really want a male version of the Wonder Woman ones

That's why I get anxious whenever io9 looks like it's tending that way. Jezebel used to feature, level-headed astute feminist analysis; now it's a gossip rag like Gawker with a thin veneer of the most abstract sort of 'girl power'. I'd hate to see the wonderful io9 get sucked into their vortex of self-serving strawman…

Such an obvious idea. Hopefully they're already planning for it after their first round of Netflix TV shows. Or they might wait til after the Inhumans movie.

This is a really good article, and a point that needed to be made.

Exactly. I can't work out why people are trying to figure out the significance of these promos, when it's clear what's going on . 'Everything ends' have been arc words in Hickman's run since the beginning. They're just hyping the climax of that story; turning it into a line-wide crossover like they did with Uncanny…

The current Inhumans series by Charles Soule is actually really good, and probably very much like what the film is going to be, at least in tone. The book got off to a rocky start due to changing writers at the last minute and art delays, and many were quick to dismiss it, but it's very entertaining.

I don't even hate the Matrix sequels. I mean, they're flawed and disappointing, but there's still amazing visuals, music, action and ambitious ideas.

We saw Loki kill people on screen (including a defenceless old man), and arrange for thousands more to die - but people want him redeemed.