I'm a big ol' fan of that X-Men Legacy run. It had enough heart and bonkers ideas to push through being kind of chaotic.

Right? Don't even get me started on horror movies' ridiculous over-reliance on monsters.

There are complaints to lob at the MCU, but "simplistic and uninspired" are not two of them.

I don't know if this even qualifies as a trope, but "characters slowly descend into insanity and talk to imaginary friends of their own creation" is always golden. What's-his-name's friendship with (and subsequent sudden but inevitable betrayal by) his clay little friends was perfect.

Not THAT disdainful of politics. From the moment when he starts talking up the latrine job, to promoting Thorne, to baiting Slynt into either leaving or facing execution, he pretty much had the situation politically on lock.

Cool ref bro

I think to conflate "being generally joyful" in a series with "soaked in camp" is kind of the problem here. I'm reading series that are a lot less clever/quirky than Daredevil and still don't hit the emotional beats as solidly as Daredevil routinely does.

You're in luck! There's a whole DECADE of comics you're really gonna enjoy.

I like that.

Have you read up on the intent of the Marvel Universe post-Secret Wars? For the longest time I'd been thinking they were going to collapse the Multiverse into one universe, but now I'm thinking if maybe that was something I misconstrued.

Yeah but you should see him do Good Cop, Loves Cigarettes Cop

For now. I'm a sucker for alternate universes, and I'm kind of dreading that Secret Wars is going to bring Gwen into 616. For some reason I am a thousand percent on board with Spider-Gwen tearing it up in the Gweniverse, and fairly opposed to her joining the main "Gwen Stacy Stays Dead" universe.

I've got your avatar on a shirt. What comic was that from again?

That's half right—it was an expensive production and a fairly average number of people watched it. Over 4 million per episode isn't bad, but there weren't a lot of people in the important Young Male demo.

Was going to countersnark but then saw that you'd pulled back the Happiness Is A Myth Perpetrated For The Gullible shtick. It's of course okay to give up on family if they're unrepentantly hurtful. We should create an ecosystem where people who reverse their shitty opinions are rewarded.

How fortuitous that you guys don't share parents!

In the first five minutes, Morpheus is captured by turn of the century British magicians who only have one goal…

I mean it'd be a huge waste of time hearing every number that WON'T win, but if he's taking the time to whine on the Internet, he's probably got lots of it.

Way. Too. Long.

Unless you have severe social phobias, it is almost always better to just do a casual ask, deal with the (hopefully minor) fallout, and move on with (or from) the friendship. You can always make new friends, but you can't get back months/years of pining.