It's displaced SAGA and HAWKEYE as my current favorite book.

The current highly lauded book by Soule and Pulllido is the most purely fun comic that Marvel's putting out. Funny, sweet and inventive, with old school Kirby meets Steranko meets Ditko art that's a welcome contrast with all the grotesquely overly-rendered stuff out there. I've heard good things about Slott's run on…

If that was ever true, it isn't currently. As drawn by Javier Pulido in what has displaced HAWKEYE as Marvel's currently best reviewed comic (and the one liked almost as much as the new MS. MARVEL by female bloggers), She-Hulk has a more rangy and jock-ish body than she's often been drawn as possessing, but she's no…

She's simply a cool character rather than a major one and they didn't make a big thing about it, but fridging Leiko Wu by having Razor-Fist tear her in half was a dick move and will be even if it turns out it was just an impostor. Fuck you, Marvel.

I enjoyed Godzilla despite one bad actor and some ill-used good ones. The stocky bear-like design for the big G works much better in motion than in stills and I love the shot of his dorsal spines breaking the waves as he's escorted by aircraft carriers; it's tied with Mothra's egg washed up on the beach as my…

I generally think he's a smug douche, and the douchery spoils his technically proficient Sinatra covers, but was surprised by how genuinely lovely this is.

He's awful. Not Tatum, he's okay. Gambit, the skeeviest Marvel hero after Starfox. Is it any coincidence the cartoon version had a soul patch and the first movie version wore a fedora? I think not.

I think THE WOMAN is quite good and that Pollyanna McIntosh gives one of the great horror movie performances. If nothing else, McKee deserves credit for recognizing the potential of the actress and the character in the otherwise pretty dire OFFSPRING.

I hope the following doesn't sound like I'm picking on Sonia. I like her and think it's good to have a brown female writer here, I rooted for her against the creepy guy on Jeopardy, and would have been sorry she lost even if it had been to a less skeezy opponent. She's very charming and telegenic and seems quite…

Thing is, the originals have plenty of dark stuff in them, they just don't go all Hot Topic with it, and balance it with a brisk cheerful tone.

Yeah, they did a great adaptation of Marvelous Land of Oz with terrific Alfredo Alcala art.

Yeah, none of the characters are from penny dreadfuls, but quite respectable horror novels first published in hardcover. Shelley, Stoker and of course Wilde all got good reviews when first published.

Yes, but it's pretty pure Hammer gothic, not steampunk, and more horror than adventure.

This show is in no way steampunk, at least not so far. There's no 19th century futurism, no airships, no Verneian or Wellsian inventions. Nobody wears useless goggles on a top hat. Victor's "science" does something impossible, but looks period appropriate, with electrical equipment quite similar to that used in the…

The Dark Horse book with Captain Midnight teaming up with ASL-using super-gorillas is, as NPR said, damn good fun.

Motherfuckers.

It's not like I was the first to make Mordred the protagonist, although my earliest short stories and novellas about him may have been written before Mary Stewart's THE WICKED DAY. And the point of Neil's story, like Tanith Lee's "Red As Blood" before it, lies more in making Snow White a vampire.

This wasn't originally true. Gojira ate fish, then came ashore to eat cattle and, implicitly, people. In his first appearance peering over a hill, he was meant to have a cow in his jaws, but the model was unconvincing.

The original Gojira was a tad chunky, with a larger and froggier head (especially when he was an animatronic puppet). In the 60s, his head became slightly smaller, but his neck and muzzle grew distinctly longer, and there was a clear demarcation between head and neck. In the 70s, he became positively svelte, but he…

Sloppy or fabricated methodology is not a symptom of hackery. Being a liar does not make one a hack. Being a bad thinker doesn't either, nor does being generally mendacious. I am not a fan of Ms. Sarleesian, but I'm even less of one of people who try to make the English language their much-abused rent boy.