Ah, but I failed to tell you that I was, at one point in my life, the leader of a small religious artistic collective. True story. I know that of which I speak.

It's worth watching if only to see Hugh Dancy as the LEAST convincing cult leader ever. Seriously, he's so twitchy and tortured that it's hard to imagination anyone looking to him for anything even remotely resembling spiritual guidance. He is basically to charisma as Trump is to political strategy. Every conversation…

The final Get Down was pretty amazing! And then…holy cow, did Shaolin just go back to his lifelong tormentor? Did said tormentor just shoot an adorable kitten in a shopping bag? Did Dizzy get hit by a train? Did Ezekiel just opt to become the "token" at Yale? Is Boo in Jail? Did the Sugar Hill Gang's first single…

Yeah, but this looks more like the "Gaurdians of the Galaxy: Let's have some fun!" factory and less like that "Civil War: Let's Get Real Bummed Out…" factory, so I'm for it.

It's got its moments. So, yeah, it's "any" good. When it hits a high note, it's something to see. It's sort of like a magical surrealist take on the birth of hip-hop. Some great musical numbers, though. It's sort of to gritty urban coming of age dramas as a series of unfortunate vents is to the plight of orphans.

Yeah, this is what kept me out of this movie for most of the running time. So there's an afterlife. Okay. But the articulation of that discovery is simply "we've detected brain waves leaving the body at the time of death" or somesuch.

Well, then. Might as well bring in Franklin Richards, all the same.

Legion is fantastic, but I'd be okay with it only lasting a single season if it tells a complete story. Give Mr. Haweley a new, second tier marvel character to toy with every year, I say. Imagine a season of Jamie Maddox, for example. Or Machine Man. Or whatever. Like a limited series.

Oh…no, Mark. No.

I remember the JLA/Avengers crossover years back. When Superman came to the Marvel Universe, he was shocked at how little the heroes had accomplished and how much they were hated. The DC Universe really doesn't have an analogue to the Mutants, for example, a whole class of superheroes that are looked on with suspicion…

Really, Spiderman needs to stay away from the Green Goblin/Venom stuff and anything that happened in the 90s. Let him fight wierd villians like the Tinkerer, Mysterio, Kraven, the Circus of Crime, Rocket Racer, the Scorpion, the Jackal, Big Wheel, Paste Pot Pete…Spider-Man is basically a kid fighting criminal cranks.

Doctor Octopus hit it.

Para comes from the greek, meaning "at or to one side of." So these are basically the guys who live next to demons, which totally screws your property values. Alternatively, New Genesis consists entirely of folks who moved to the suburbs when the demons started buying up property in formerly all-nondemon neighborhoods.

Im seeing double! Two hehs!

I noticed that this weekend! He's perfectly happy running around looking for ore and meat. It's bascially a very good looking minecrafter for him. The story, which he loves, is just a bonus. When he beat the Waterblight Ganon on the first try, he was overcome with joy.

This is how we know 2017 will be kinder than 2016. 2016 would have had Berry release the album a week ago, have it be his best and most soulsearching self-disclosure in a quarter century, then kill him right in front of us with a spoon.

As far as Zelda goes, I'm just grateful I finally found a game that could draw my ten year old away from Super Mario Maker and into a larger narrative. As a guy who cut his teeth on Ocarina, it's cool that this is my son's first real Zelda. For him, it's transformative.

Hmmm, well if they were going for "Defenders" and looking for a rich, white guy, they could have gone with Nighthawk. Isn't he sort of a Batman type? or the Son of Satan. That would be interesting. or the Black Knight. He's got a sword…or something.

Ahem. Shang Chi is the greatest open hand fighter in the world. He can channel chi to push beyond what is strictly possible, deflecting and dodging bullets, etc. He's defeated super-powered enemies using sheer physical skill. He is also the son of Fu Manchu!

This. Shang-Chi would have been perfect. Plus, he's got this sort of "Kung-Fu" wandering hero (Which i guess makes sense seeing as he was Marvel's respons to NOT getting the rights to "kung-fu") up against international crime syndicates and f00kin' Fu-manchu thing happening. I read comics for my entire childhood and…