"They're right over there in the "Time Travel Supplies" aisle, next to the advanced computer chips, AK 47s, and lists of winning lottery numbers."

I think having an ABA - wealthy or not - living (and working) in a poor and very, very black neighborhood would change a lot of the interesting dynamic of having Iron Fist be a rich white man in that situation. (And his friendship with Luke Cage, which is as essential a part of the character as most of the other…

I couldn't help but laugh at the fact that he was walking around down there while Ray Palmer was zooming around in the air firing whatever those things are at people. They must have flipped a coin to decide who had to stay on the ground like a chump and who didn't.

This bothered me to no end.

Maybe at that point everyone just kind of decided to give up on Star City. I mean, that's got to be, what, the third or fourth time someone has laid waste to massive sections of it and it has been overrun with chaotic gangs? And that's just the times we've already seen - there's thirty years we haven't.

Oh - here's a good non-race-related example. In the movies Wolverine is tall (because he's played by a tall guy, so..). In the comic books Wolverine is (very) short - and it's not just a random choice either. The name "Wolverine" was supposed to be related (even if mostly unmentioned) to the fact that he was really…

I think part of the oddity of race bending is that it's [necessary qualifier right here - I mean their capacity to do it] not symmetrical in the Marvel (Cinematic) Universe. They're locked off from a lot of their later characters, which means that of the remaining ones there are a lot of white characters whose race…

I have this feeling that they will not, in fact, be hitting him when he least expects it, but at a more normal time.

"Wandering character shows up and plays a supporting role in another character's story before leaving" is a pretty standard type of franchise though. And that's definitely how Miller has talked about the Mad Max movies.

If Miller gets anything he better spraypaint his mouth chrome on the way up to the stage.

Stallone actually does really good work in Rocky and First Blood, I think. The problem is that his career is just genuinely really bizarre, and both were immediately followed by a string of increasingly garish cartoony movies supposedly starring the same characters. So it's hard not to read the Rocky from Rocky IV…

I dunno, the two situations are broad enough - especially the second - that you could tell a nearly unlimited number of stories. Batman doesn't really have much more as far as possible storylines: you've mainly got resourceful-man-vs-more-powerful-enemy/enemies and one-man-revenge-on-world stories. Neither of those…

This is exactly true: the MCU Captain America stuff has been really fascinating because they've managed not just to pull it off but to make it look completely natural and easy as well.

And Superman's most iconic villain is Lex Luthor who fits right into that space, whether it's evil-scientist-Luthor or (even better) corporate-tycoon-Luthor. One thing Superman doesn't have is super-intelligence (I know, I know Silver Age but whatever), and that's where a lot of the interesting stories show up.

It can be with the right story - the problem is that the available storylines for someone as powerful as Superman are either (1) look it's someone almost as powerful/more powerful as he is and now they fight! or (2) serious moral dilemma. Superman isn't a character that can deal with hard choices or necessary…

I'm not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, the first xXx was amazing. On the other hand the second one was appalling, and was clearly made by people who had no idea that the first one wasn't actually trying to be a serious movie of any kind.* Starring Vin Diesel again is a good sign, I guess.

I dunno - I mean, unlike Thompson who for all his flaws is clearly both pretty smart and a sharp operator Souza has always come off a little dim to me. I mean, he's a good guy and a solid agent and all, but he doesn't outwit anyone either - I don't think he's playing at the same level as Carter or Thompson are…

…when talking about totally different things in a different context and about things that happened years after she wrote about that. So, no. Actually describe her actual arguments if you want to disagree with them, rather than just using her name or the phrase itself.

No - no they didn't have any interactions as far as that went. But Carter did know about what Wilkes had just said and still stopped Thompson's plan since she, basically, wanted to override what Wilkes said should happen to him.

Does he deserve to die? No - not at all. But this all happened after Wilkes made it clear that he thought he was a massive danger to the people around him (and the city as a whole), and that that's what he wanted to happen and literally locked Carter out so she couldn't stop him from doing it. In the abstract…