But the Wachowskis and McTeigue didn’t understand “V.” For one thing, they abandoned the idea that Norsefire killed all of the non-white, non-straight, non-Christian people they could find. The victims of the camp where V was experimented upon were not random dissidents. They were the most marginalized members of…

To give him some credit, he ditched the cape after one issue, having tripped on it. He did work under the unnamed 616 Nixon equivalent, until the president was exposed as the leader of the fascistic Secret Empire and committed suicide in the oval office. Sometimes I miss stories like that.

WHO WAS MURDERED?

Multiple replies have said Captain America would vote for Trump. Obviously, these people have never read a Cap comic book published since 1968. They also don’t understand the movies.

Zack Snyder presents!

As Kirkman had once announced that the series would run 300 issues that would recount Rick’s life, this surprises me a bit. Then again, the introduction of The Commonwealth surprised me a lot. I’d sort of expected the story to move in an “Earth Abides” direction, with East Coast civilization slowly devolving into an…

I read an item years ago in which Kirkman stated that he intended for the comic to cover Rick’s entire life and thought it should run about 300 issues. I hope this means he decided that was an artificial goal, one likely to run the series right into the ground, as Sim did with “Cerebus.” Get out while you have…

In college, nearly 40 years ago, I took a film class with a unit on nonfiction film. I was a sophomore journalism major with very little exposure to the form. Following screenings of “The River,” “Harlan County, USA,” and a couple of films that don’t come to memory immediately, I wrote a paper putting forth my…

Personally, I would have excused myself calmly, gone to a car where I could talk quietly with the people supplying me information and put forth TO MY STAFF THE IMAGE OF A FUCKING LEADER who wanted to be in the situation every minute with every bit of information available — even if that’s NOT what he wanted.

There are these things called telephones and radios.

He now claims that was just a story. Creating a bigger than life legend, you know. Yeah, right.

Lennon called him the best back beat in the business. Drumming is about keeping the beat, driving the other musicians, helping them maintain the groove. Show-off drummers have never been a favorite of mine. Bassists, while having a freer hand, still are there to create a foundation on which everything else can be…

Could be worse. Mark Millar could have written a comic that it’s based on.

It’s like the unaired “Justice League” pilot met Tom Green. I don’t normally make that kind of “meets” description, but my brain has seized up.

“But I’m payin’ it off in installments.”

Yes. But how many people have heard of them? I understand what you’re saying, but even to many  comics readers, most of those villains are small fish.

If you don’t enjoy it, don’t watch it. He’s doing what he and the producers and the network want to do, and making everybody plenty of money in the process. If you and a sufficient number of other people stop watching the show, everyone involved will be forced to reconsider what’s being done.

They didn’t even employ the SHIELD technique of creating variations on second-or-third level villains. We weren't going to see Stilt Man for budgetary reasons, but they could have pulled off Owl, which they teased in DD S1.