Actor: “I’m open to making a great deal of money while working with people I enjoy being around.”

Internet: “THIS PROVES ALL THE FAN THEORIES!!!!!”

As much as I love the 616 version of Thanos from way back in the day, I was pleasantly shocked by the amount of pathos and humanity the MCU was able to squeeze out of a character that very easily could have been purple Skeletor with a sideline in death kink. Granted, the MCU Thanos still just a cartoon baddie in a…

100% there’s gonna be a core group of Snyderchuds who sign up for multiple HBOMax accounts and then watch this on a loop to drive up numbers.

Rob has a point in that none of these characters are big in the general 616/Marvel Handbook sense of the word — but X Books are their own parallel world with their own metrics.

Specifically, one can measure exactly how important a character is in the X Books by counting how many times they’ve died, been reborn, died…

Red 2 wasn’t so bad either! But, yeah, modern Bruce killed 80s/90s Bruce. Oh, and Kevin Smith has some good BW stories too from Cop Out.

I think the other side of the story with BW is that he’s apparently a horror to work with, so people in the industry don’t want to hire him, and somewhere along the line he lost his sense of humor, so audiences aren’t as interested in what he’s turning out. Add ‘em together and you’ve got his current career.

It’s not so much that he’s not choosy to me — more that he’s operating within that great UK (Northern Ireland in his case) actorly tradition of just going out and doing the jobs they pay you for without shame, complaint, or compunction and still managing to maintain your dignity and the respect of audiences and peers…

Same. I want to hide and cry.

Again, not contradicting you and, yes, to each their own. Just sayin’ that he’s not still out there scratching away just because daddy was a legend. Granted, few — if any other — artists have drawn the Punisher to look like some sort of orc or troll or whateverthefuck this is, but the guy has his moments and his…

Eh, I find Jr.’s style challenging and, sure, he’s dropped the ball quite a few times, but I still appreciate him. Yeah, I can see why people hate on him, but overall he’s proven better than average and delivered some great moments.

Maybe — but remember that Iron Lad’s history is a bit more complicated than just a kid in a suit. He’s is actually Nate Richards, a refugee from an alternate-reality 30th Century and a descendant of Mr. Fantastic’s time-traveling father. He wound up on the Young Avengers after he was rescued from certain death by Kang…

I don’t give much of a fuck about the age difference. My issue is that Braff is a confirmed tool who also has a side hustle as a drip and def spends his off hours curled up with a glass of cab and yet another book about how to be a fake Sensitive Guy™ (it’s a great way to unwind after a taxing day of trying to…

Young Avengers maybe???? We’ve already got Kate, we’ll soon have Stature Cassie thanks to Ant-Man. Kang possibly showing up in the same movie gives us Iron Lad. It’s a slight possibility that Wandavision gives us a shot at Wiccan and Speed (though they could just as easily have non-Wanda related origins in the MCU).…

I agree to some extent! I just don’t think Hayden is a very good actor and certainly not a lead. Sam, Taylor, and others aren’t particularly hot either, but def might have had wildly different careers if they hadn’t started the way they did (and kept accepting roles that put them in the same spot). Let’s throw Garrett…

LOL. I see you.

That said, I honestly DO think he’d be happier there, or at least not working on massive, corporate projects where he is a very small cog in an incredibly complex machine that reduces most actors to moving landscapes for CGI inserts. Starting out your movie career as a piece of billion-dollar IP fodder…

I am so deeply, deeply tired of a shitty movie that came out three years ago continuing to dominate the discourse via QAnon-level conspiracies, an unneeded $70 million revamp, constant defending by incel-adjacent fans, and, yes, even this, a potentially real/potentially not-real accusation of racism and harassment…

Yes, we all knew the fix was in on the FF suit/situation, which I think is what allowed us/Marvel to go way off the track with the suit (in a fun way). Totally different from the Secret Wars/Symbiote black suit which came in the days before events Changed Everything™, before people switched up suits every couple of…

Funny, I was reading the early part of Coates’ run on Captain America for the first time last night (it’s solid!), and Cap goes up against Taskmater and calls TM’s suit “silly” or “dumb” in a thought bubble. I was like, fuck you, Steve, that shit slaps. Also, who are you to rip on other people’s costumes? You have…

The FF suit was wild with an almost villainous aspect to it. Loved the design. IF, however, I thought it was a permanent change, I might have had a completely different response. 

It’s not bad! It needs a couple of tweaks of course and I think, given how aggressive the costume is, you should go a few shades lighter on the blue (something between this and the sky blue used for Pete’s costume in the ‘70s/’80s). Other than that, it’s a solid take. I particularly like the tone difference on the…