If those are the choices, I am crossing my fingers for Leviathan. Sure, it is a shameless rehash of Alien, except in the ocean, but it goes through those motions with some professionalism and gusto.

I will watch the shit out of this. Stewart as a steely horror heroine (instead of a doe-eyed vampire sex kitten) sounds great. Personal Shopper should be proof enough that she is a serious artists, not a flukey it-girl.

As you can see, only 1 film was completly original, and only 2 more were mostly original. So yeah, the idea that adapting previously existing stories into film is damaging the cinematic art form is simply not borne out by history.

It might even be a good thing.

I thought Age of Ultron was clumsy, but Whedon put a personal stamp on it. The melancholy of the robotic characters was of a piece with his television work, where monsters often have a kind of dreamy awkward-kid pathos.

I’m sorry but that’s complete conjecture. I can argue that the opposite will occur

Maybe it’s because I’m not American and thus, as much as I love superheroes and geek culture, I don’t feel like I have a personal stake in this, but I really think article like this are ridiculously apocalyptic.

If you want an apolitical essay, don’t ask Art Spiegelman to write it.

The history of superhero comics is so entwined with anti-fascism and immigrant experience that Spiegelman could hardly avoid making a nod toward current politics. It would be a conspicuous omission if he didn’t. His “Orange Skull” joke seems restrained, and almost conciliatory, given the disturbing parallels that this…

I’m curious what kind of changes Flanagan has in mind, but it seems a little odd (apart from the obvious financial motive) to release a Blu-Ray instead of streaming the extended episodes on Netflix. Oh well.

Around halfway through the review, I could feel all of the proper nouns just weighing on me (and on Jill, by the sound of it). The show’s dusty something-punk production design looks neat, as if someone added more day scenes to Penny Dreadful, but there is only so much world-building that a person can be expected to…

I’m surprised to read that PoX #2 “is not really an issue of shocking reveals or bold declaration” when Jonathan Hickman just turned the X-Men into something out of The Three Body Problem. The final section of the story operates on a scale far beyond the usual future wars and space quests we’ve been reading about…

This might be where I part ways with The Handmaid’s Tale. The cast is good enough that the show has stayed surprisingly watchable during its slow-but-steady transformation from First Blood into Rambo.

See also: Games that chastise you for using violence while also giving you no other input option other than violence.

It’s always fun when Morrison’s long game comes into focus. His decision to write Green Lantern as a police procedural looked, at first, like another of his attempts to be cosmic and populist at the same time. See also: The Filth, Action Comics, and his truncated run on The Authority.

Are these looks inspired by something? Because the Hal Jordan design here screams 90s.

So you’re saying that Skeksis never left?

I think I’m just enough younger (born in the early eighties) to have started reading science-fiction in the wake of William Gibson and comics after the annus mirabilis of 1986 gave us Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, and Maus all at once. SF elitism was still in place, but the schism between the classical genre and…

They’re bringing Skeses back?

The fandoms were not as closely integrated in the ‘90s as they are today.