I thought Bardsley’s distribution was so bad that marginally lesser shot-stopping would be a reasonable trade off for someone who can actually find a teammate occasionally. If Telford really is the next best option, I was wrong.

The Fate/Zero anime is the answer on where to start and where to stop. It’s the prequel.

By most accounts he did help out with the Guardians’ roles in those films.

Why would you want to? So long as it’s non-commercial, it’s clearly an expression of love for your “cool and original” game. Would you want to prevent people cosplaying as characters from your game too? Or drawing fan art?

I will never understand the need to blame Lindelof for Prometheus. Film is a notoriously a director’s medium, Lindelof didn’t even originate the script, he was just brought in to “fix” a previous version to Scott’s liking, and the mistakes the film makes are not even slight deviations from the mistakes that litter much…

Well, there is a French graphic novel called Yesterday about a young musician who finds himself in a world without The Beatles and passes off their songs as his own...

It does get better, the sequence where Laura’s killer is finally revealed is one of the most powerful and frightening things I’ve ever seen on TV. And to put that in context, I only watched it maybe 5 years ago, so I’m comparing it to the current golden age of HBO and the like — Lynch was doing this on a network show…

Most likely it’s a reboot, yeah, kinda like how the Hannibal TV show was often described as a prequel, until it started adapting events from the books/films.

Last week, tabloids reported that the film was running behind schedule because Fukunaga was playing Red Dead Redemption 2, which is obviously complete nonsense. Except that Fukunaga felt the need to come out and deny it. I think he was trying to laugh off a joke story, but acknowledging it at all leans hard into he-dot…

Exactly this.

Not sure if Trainspotting 2 being so high is meant to be a criticism of the rest of his work. I wouldn’t suggest it was bad, it’s perfectly competent in fact, but I didn’t think it did anything interesting enough to warrant its existence. There’s a handful of his films I’ve never gotten around to, but I’d put it dead…

I thought The Extraordinary Adventure of Adele Blanc-Sec was good pulpy fun, but yeah, “hit-or-miss” doesn’t begin to describe the gulf in quality between those of his films that work and those that don’t.

It’s judged on whether the initial shot was on target. If it is, it can take a huge deflection and the attacker will still be credited with the goal.

Huh. I didn’t know any better, but by chance that’s exactly the build I went for when I played it, and it left me wondering what people were complaining about. So, yeah, do this.

It’s coming. I’m pretty sure he’s been waiting on a gap in Declan Shalvey’s schedule where he can draw the thing, and that’s due in the back half of this year.

Captain Marvel 2 is nailed on too, given that it made a billion dollars. Thor 4 is a strong possibility, but if they want Waititi back (and why wouldn’t they?) it’s probably further down the line after he’s done with Akira (and, presumably, after Thor’s appearance in Guardians 3), so... 2023 maybe?

Really? It doesn’t strike me that plotting is her strong point (Killing Eve being the most plotty thing she’s done, where she presumably was able to lift most of that stuff from the book and still walked away without giving her chapter a satisfying ending). Bringing her in to liven up an existing story seems like the…

Well, when The Wild Storm finishes (with #24), Ellis is then writing a six issue WildCATs spinoff. It seems like that could be it though; in his newsletter, Ellis has said he’s got very little on his plate comics-wise for the foreseeable future, and I can’t see DC doing much with this version of these characters…

I believe they have occasionally used those scans though, even in print. Some pirates do very impressive clean up work, and while I don’t recall any specific cases, I’m sure there have been releases that very much seem to make use of them.

Yeah, it’s clear that they desperately (and understandably) want to replicate the movies’ aesthetic, but it’s killed stone dead by them having to make everything just different enough to not infringe on a license they obviously don’t have. They would’ve been better off going for more distinctive redesigns — in and of…