Yea, doesn't help that they've even been downplaying pretty much all of the classic comic relief (Bandit, Blip, Gloop and Gleep, etc etc).

Ha, sounds like we're very much on the same page about the four titles.

Nope, they just like, quoted a Tweet from an unverified account without, you know, thinking at all.

Yea, the Mad Max route was a good idea, but this got mired in its own mythology instead of just focusing on the secondary characters and gritty twists they had dreamed up. Even though my favorite part of it was probably Dick Dastardly's absurdly tragic backstory, it was that moment when I realized the book was just…

Ha! What a great screenshot

Ah, I'll have to check that out.

Also, fucking Future Quest. That nostalgia is the only reason I'm still buying it (luckily Wacky Races was shitty enough I don't have that problem), but I'd really like them to finish up this arc so I feel better about dropping it.

I'm enjoying it, but I wish it allowed itself to be a bit more serialized. As we see more repeat characters it's getting a little more like that. But the storytelling still feels strongly "vignette-based" without an emotional throughline between scenes. It works, but I'm always just a bit detached from it.

Hahaha, I just watched. Those lips…

Yea, I think conflating Cap's protectiveness of Bucky with his disagreement of Stark was a good way to keep everything moving forward, but to your point, the relationship wasn't quite developed enough. Like, every character motivation was there, but served minimally to keep the running time down I guess. It…

"Apparently the entire rest of the movie, which gave all the emotional stakes a viewer could ask for if you cared about the characters"
I loved Civil War, but I really wanted it to be a touch more on the nose. It just felt like that without them really acknowledging "Hey, I feel guilty for creating Ultron" and "But I…

How did Doctor Strange not have stakes?

"Ok, I couldn't get that past the MPAA, but what if I just have Superman's dad say it's cool to kill a bus full of children? That makes sense"

That whole Keatonesque climax would be it for me. It's when I realized I didn't just like The Nice Guys, I loved it.

Yeah, on paper that scene is annoying. But it's just cheeky enough to feel "right" even though there's not quite anything like it in the Trek universe ("Magic Carpet Ride" from First Contact comes close, and I also love that sequence despite myself).

I thought that for a hot second too.

I mean I Googled it. He's just clearly not a name that gets dropped in a news article without clarification.

Nah, it's almost good.

Are we supposed to know who Greg Berlanti is?

It's weird because the first Amazing Spider-Man trailer had a significant first-person scene as well. Is Spider-Man the "Doom" of the Marvel universe?