I was really struggling to think of how Straczynski “[set] the stage for the Spider-Verse”. Did he mean the comic story or the movie?

plus more people recognize Grant as the flash from the TV show

Jesus you really needed to pick my comment apart for multiple paragraphs, huh?

Executive producer is usually a vanity credit in movies. And I don’t know that contributing to the scores is a problem either — were the scores what was wrong with those films? You stated that you’re fine with his musical output.

That she’s a major character dying in someone else’s book, a book that she’s barely had a cameo in up to this point. If Spider-Man “dies”, it happens in a Spider-Man title, or perhaps in a team title (if he’s currently on the roster), or in a major event miniseries. It doesn’t happen when he cameos in Wolverine.

Why are you blaming Carpenter for those?

But I appreciated that they didn’t immediately bring Nate back into the coaching team.

There are two colourists credited for the issue. It’s probably just that they each did one of those pages independently, although the editor should’ve caught it.

Nah. She expects it to, but there’s something else going on (probably related to reinventing her as a mutant):

There are comic stories worth having emotional reactions to. I’m not sure this is one.

Because this is a poorly constructed and executed use of (temporary) death as a plot point, even by the incredibly low standards of superhero comics.

Also, is Iris even still a WOC in the comics?

It doesn’t feel like a great sign that their vision of a great Flash movie apparently hung on them convincing a 69-year-old (at the time of shooting) Michael Keaton to put on the Batsuit again. If they wanted to make a belated sequel to the Tim Burton films, maybe WB should’ve just hired them to do that.

Green Lantern isn’t exactly integral to Blackest Night as a concept. Nekron raises an army of the dead and pits them against the heroes. It’s really that simple at its core. I’d be inclined to replace the black power rings with something less specific, but you might not even need to bother with that.

Well, Ewan McGregor was decent enough. Not award-worthy, but it wouldn’t be a total embarrassment if he were to get a nomination.

Not to rain on anyone’s parade (well... maybe a light shower), but way too many of those left off the “and”, which is the whole joke.

I think it’s a mistake to try to classify those two shows as high art and low art — they’re both pulp fiction at heart. The difference is just that Obi-Wan is mediocre pulp, whereas Andor is really, really well executed pulp.

The standard Netflix practice would involve it being cancelled at the end of season 2 or 3, and with Cavill leaving they had the perfect excuse to repeat that. To me, this suggests they’re committed to seeing it though — unless viewing figures absolutely tank, of course.

I only saw the trailer for Elementals recently, and my instant reaction was that it looked like the most generic version of what would happen if you merged every Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks animation of the last decade or so into one.

Bloody hell, they might actually reach the end of the novel cycle. I’d guess doing so would require a sixth season (unless they compress things a little), but they’re probably not going to abandon it so close to the end.