Performed by Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass.
The score is, seriously, great ; and you'll recognise chunks of it from being reused elsewhere.

Well, Kirby's own dialogue on stuff like NEW GODS is… some sort of weird poetry. It's strange, it's out of rythym with "naturalistic" human speech… but it's got something going on with it. If Stan The Man's dialogue is the "snappy patter" of a radio DJ, Jack's is almost like an avant-garde theater piece.
Which…

true; the classic, magnificently embarassing "even Lincoln had a mother!" speech is hilarous: http://chronologyproject.co…

Good to see some love for this. Sam Kieth noted that he got reactions both from fans who just appreciated it as "trippy fantasy" and fans who were touched by it's dealing with sensitive topics, and he considered BOTH reactions extremely flattering.

Totally valid… but it's really telling that your criticism has everything to do with Lee, and nothing to do with Kirby!

Well, as much as we complain about them changing things, many of them are relatively faithful ; the first four Connerys and OHMSS are more or less straight-up adaptations, and large pieces of Fleming are scattered throughout the series.
Sure, they've screwed up a few things (I don't think the series ever really…

Hey, Marvel's pushing movies full of talking trees, gun-toting raccoons, and shrinky-guys with Loyal Ant Buddies… and the public's accepting them because they AREN'T a big stretch from the rest of what they're offering. "Goofy" IS the house brand.
If you want realistic drama, skip the superheros completely, and go…

" Two eggs, blended- shaken, not stirred"

Not an invalid point; in fact, LICENCE TO KILL borrows unused parts of the novel LIVE AND LET DIE.

You say that as if a grim, modern version of The Fantastic Four is a GOOD idea, and we all know THAT's not true!
But seriously, the best of that "goofiness" actually makes that stuff MORE accessible to newbies. MARVEL ESSENTIALS: FANTASTIC FOUR VOLUME ONE has made a number of adult converts in my circle- these…

For the record: big bald Dave Bautista more closely resembles the traditional Blofeld than Christoph Waltz.
Just putting that out there.

Because they ran out.

LIVE AND LET DIE was a pretty odd choice for a "first film" to launch a new Bond; it's really unlike any of the others (although there are some similarities to DR. NO).
But it works surprisingly well; drop James Bond into a setting he doesn't quite fit into, and you don't really have a chance to notice that Roger…

Simon Templer was always a much better fit for Moore than James Bond.
But it didn't help that he was playing Bond at a time when the producers really weren't even BOTHERING to adapt the source material (to be fair, at that point most of the novels best suited to the screen had already been done)

(of course, the American comics industry is almost entirely built on hat theft)

It's literally as if two unknown comedians started calling themselves "Laurel and Hardy". No you are not, and stop wearing their hats and pretending you are.

Noticable abscence of Hellboy.
Even MORE noticible abscence of Kirby. (I mean, come on, I think pretty much everything he's ever done is in print right now… and considering the sheer SIZE of that body of work, that fact in and of itself tells you how well it's stood the test of time)

To be absolutely blunt: they were all scared shitless of what "the base" would say.
This may be the first time some of them DIDN'T pander to the racist/ "Confederate" crowd; they wanted cover.
Everybody wants to be the first in the lifeboat… but nobody wants to be the first to jump ship.

Those who were there said it was really on the cusp until this happened: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEF…

This is Southern Politics. There was no guarantee of HOW that vote would turn out.