But on the Rossmo cover: Why are Bats & Deadman inside a giant pigeon? And how can Batman stand up with no ankles? And why does Batman have one size 9 foot and one size 19? The legs are just atrocious - though far, far better than anything I could do, to be sure.

There is a Scott Williams signature on that cover, but it still looks a little undercooked for those two. I’m not a huge Jim Lee fan, but I expect to see lots of hatching instead of big areas of shadow.

Tamaki/Reeder is a great pairing. I will have to rethink my “too much Harley” stance.

I’m interested. I liked The Favourite, and the subject-matter is up my gloomy alley, although part of me still thinks of Lanthimos as a miserabilist poseur who apes the most adolescent aspects of Kubrick.

When I played this game back on PS1, without the quicksave feature of the sequel, I remember screens that were clearly designed to result in hilarious catastrophe with the pull of a single lever. And there was this constant pressure: do I save these Mudokens or witness the unbridled destruction that the level design…

Thanks, I thought that might be the case. Presumably, the designers are well aware of this comparison. But we will see how they set themselves apart.

The headline seems like a stretch, but I suppose “actress thinks about consistent characterization while filming serial stories partly out of order” is really not punchy enough. But her comments do reveal that the development cycle for these Marvel projects deals with continuity of character in very broad terms,…

Based on the brief description here, it is hard not to compare the Alien game to Nemesis. Any word on how the actual mechanics will differentiate them? 

I wish. But in reality, if (when) the Snyder Cut comes out and its *still* crap, I am sure the narrative will be “they didn’t give him enough money to realize his vision” or “studio interference” or “they needed to push it early for HBO Max” or anything other than “this sucks”. And thus the cycle continues.

bruh people on twitter already complaining abt how WB is “purposely trying to sabotage Snyder”

It’s kind of ridiculous that the paper made it through peer review, if there’s really no evidence at all for its key assertions.

For me it’s always come across as reverse TLJ - or to be more accurate TLJ was the reverse of this behavior where all of a sudden it’s “just someone expressing their dislike” whereas that same person gets agitated at TLJ critics.

This post made me realize that I haven’t finished one of these games since Black Flag. And now that each game is impossibly huge, I may never finish another one again.

Anyone have the time and patience to explain to me why the black suit is such a big deal?

There will always be a fear of Nazi recruitment amongst the Twitter-addict, pseudo-intelligencia who cover films like this for mainstream review outlets.

...of all the things IO9 does, this one specifically turns my stomach in knots because it’s probably the most gatekeepy thing I see here (from a site that now seems to mostly just post Disney news favorably.)

Not looking good. Review screeners reportedly went out last week and not one social media post out there from reviewers or even blog sites. Warner embargo must be tight which means only one thing. (BvS levels bad)

FFS, how is this movie not already out and done?

I am saving my free trial for the resurrection of Ink Master. There has never been a more satisfying mixture of niche artistry and bottom-feeding reality schadenfreude.   

As for Harry Potter, well, I was never in the target audience (I was like 25 when the first book came out), but is that still a thing that kids are really into?