Just my immediate response to seeing a review of Preacher (TV) that realises that what was actually needed was for it to stick closer to Preacher (comic).

The problem here is that film/TV producers don't see comics adaptations as yer actual adaptations but a source of raw material that can now be processed into the real story (because those funnybooks just aren't as credible as the medium that gave us 'My Mother the Car').

"It’s a gutsy choice, but it’s also one that suggests that none of this really mattered—that all we really needed to see was Jesse getting the Voice, Jesse learning about Genesis, and Jesse finding out that God was missing. Oh, and some character building stuff with Tulip and Cassidy, sure.

I'm just going to note that in the space of two posts you've gone from having Milton (1) being in "semi-exile" (in that distant, obscure and hellish outpost, London) and fear of execution when he published PL, to (2) getting a bad review in a period when cultured society was at its bitchiest and most withering ever.…

Uh, dude, that was my point. Milton was an official propagandist/censor for the commonwealth when he started writing Paradise Lost. It's a sustained cosmological argument in favour of the regime that employed him, demonstrating how all this was all part of God's Plan and not the violation of the natural order…

It's not really "pop culture" (no "Shakespeare was writing the soap operas of his day" for Milton, 'PL' was state-sponsored high art) and since it basically invented Satan as a literary character it holds an unfair advantage over all the subsequent riffs.

I was just about to make the same suggestion.

One of the more curious things about the film is the way that a two minute chat with a known criminal psychopath turns an upstanding and principled lawyer - who has just been mutilated by, and seen his partner murdered by said psychopath - into a… well, a Batman villain. And then thirty minutes later the Joker isn't…

'The Dark Knight' after the scene where the Joker blows up the hospital. Once the film shifts its emphasis to the much less interesting and prosaically-motivated Two-Face it becomes a lot less interesting, while the Joker's prisoner's dilemma gambit feels like the work of a villain who knows he's into the third act of…

The problem with 'Animal Man' #26 is that Grant Morrison has flogged this dead horse in almost every single thing he's written since, and the semi-autobiographical superhero shtick gets very tired very quickly. And it's infected the critical response of lot of commentators to other, completely inappropriate comics - I…

"Cersei doesn’t have the foresight to play chess with the pieces she has, preferring to upend the board in a fit of rage."

"the original Spider-Man stretches from Peter and MJ’s senior year of high school"

Not a Simpsons fan then.

Am I the only one who thinks 'Inside Out' crushes 'Up' like a bug? (N.B. I am totally prepared to find that the answer is 'Yes'.)

Is it bad that my main emotional response to Toy Story 3 was: "Oooh, plush Totoro!"

I saw 'The Good Dinosaur' out of pity. It turns out pity's not a great criterion for choosing films.

I've never been able to shake off the time I heard 'The Incredibles' described as 'Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors'.

Thankfully this was before 'The Hobbit'.

By definition, a cult worshipping ancient Egyptian gods aren't Muslims, and its Moira McTaggart who raises Apocalypse anyway. And how does the Mona Lisa (also featured prominently in the title sequence) fit into this?

This just puts me in mind of the 'South Park' episode about the man from 1996 being thawed out in the present.