I think Bendis just broke himself with too much work.  He was a legitimate phenomenon at the beginning of his career.

So does everyone including, one suspects, Grant Morrison. But it’s hard to argue with a straight face that his influence on comics has been bad on net, nevermind as irredeemably terrible as a Johns or a Millar.

I’m trying to think of someone with a more generally baleful influence on the state of modern cape comics than Geoff Johns and... is anyone else even in the running?  Maybe McFarlane but he has a discernible sense of humor and Spawn was Actually Good in places.  Liefeld?  Millar?  All terrible in their own unique ways…

Even Wyoming has two!

I mean, I’d hope so? But Weinstein got away with his shit for years just based on the fact that he was incredibly rich and really powerful, and a lot of his victims didn’t feel safe speaking up until there was a critical mass. And even then, talking about him would get you tailed by ex-Mossad private investigators —…

Whedon has started to look so much like Harvey Weinstein in recent photos that I think we should seriously entertain the possibility that Weinstein has escaped justice by swapping places with him? It would be deeply reassuring if the problem was just that Joss Whedon was trapped in jail while Harvey Weinstein, known…

Good Omens really nicely illustrates the trap waiting for anyone trying to adapt these books: they’re comfort food (and I say that as an enduring fan of them) so a large part of the audience is going to want nothing more out of an adaption than for a sonorous voice to read the books to them.

I think “meh” is a fair summary. A few of them aren’t bad but the books live or die on Pratchett’s authorial voice and it seems to be nearly impossible to translate to the screen.

I have never yet heard a convincing explanation for Nolan’s implacable hostility toward the idea of comprehensible vocal tracks. People claimed that he was mixing for IMAX/Atmos but I’ve seen some of his films in IMAX and nope.

Yen also put on a fat suit to star in an action-comedy called, I swear to god, Enter The Fat Dragon. I skipped that one.

It’s always a little weird to hear Beatriz speak in her natural register.

The thing is... what ruse? Literally all Gordon did was drive. Nothing about the scene hinged on his presence being a surprise to anyone but the audience.

I think the thing that is really not yet fully appreciated is the extent to which the Nolan brothers, while impeccable technicians of visual spectacle, are completely incapable of writing a narrative that doesn’t fall apart under even half a second of scrutiny.

Well, if she wanted more people to be interested in Half Magic, that trailer thumbnail was a solid approach.

God, that would be amazing. I honestly don’t even think S1 and S2 need that much polishing: a little more detail about the politics of both Republic City (the Equalists were popular! There was probably a reason for that!) and the Water tribes (if it ever got mentioned before S2 that Tonraq was a chief I missed it)…

Yeah, the first episode made it seem like they might be going somewhere interesting with it, but then they... didn’t.  At all.

As vocal choices go, that SNL performance of Dead Leaves is up there with Axl Rose doing a Mexican vampire accent for no obvious reason midway through Chinese Democracy. We get it, Jack, this is all beneath you.

Oh, and a strong second on Star Trek: Picard. I am not hugely picky about “shows I watch in order to make 30 minutes on an elliptical trainer pass by faster” but I got four episodes in before giving up out of sheer boredom. For all that they made a big deal out of Michael Chabon writing it, you would have thought that…

My kid and I have been working our way through Korra for the last few weeks and man... it’s not without its flaws but I think that primarily it was a victim of being just a smidge too early. In 2012-2016, there was no way that they were going to be able to tell the story they were trying to tell on a TV-Y7 rated show…

Cate Blanchett leads the series as the onerous reactionary Phyllis Schlafly