Frank Stallone?

He was downsized to CEO of Side Boob.

That’s the thing - People say they want Superman to be those things and that audiences will come out for a non-grim Superman just like he was in 1978.

Disclaimer before I make the following statement: I am not American and therefore not weirdly hand-wringy about a certain word I am about to use

Does HBO Max also have a CEO of Tits?

I mean he wasn’t mopey, he was treated as a character that had a range of emotions. He was happy, he was sad, he was angry. He was a kid from Kansas that just wanted to do the right thing and help people. The Superman that was in MoS, BvS, JL was different than the one that had been in the comics for 70+ years when…

Superman is nowhere near my favourite superhero, but one story about him I really like is ‘Kingdom Come’, set in a dark future where metahumans have proliferated and superheroes are mostly violent, amoral vigilantes who don’t care about human life. Here the thing Superman is fighting is ideological; he can’t accept…

So is practically every human artist. “Inspiration” may be a more palatable term than “theft” and provoke a positive emotional response rather than a negative one. But fundamentally it’s the same process. I’m not sure you can argue any art is cut from whole cloth. It’s built from what we learn, what we see, and what…

Lol you need psychiatric help. But God save me, I am not giving it to you if it were free.

As someone with dysgraphia (I cannot write with a pen, or draw/paint for more than 5 minutes at a time without getting crippling pain in my hands), I have struggled my entire life with the desire to draw and create art, and being unable to actually learn it as a skill. The last few months has been a revelation for me,…

I agree in general, but Flanagan has a knack for nailing King’s tone. And while his usual “the real journey was the friends we made along the way” shtick gets increasingly tired with each iteration, it’s a natural fit for The Dark Tower.

Two of my favorites, “The Holly And The Ivy,” a drama about a very disfunctional British family in the wake of WW2, and “Tree Man,” a sweet documentary about a sidewalk tree seller in NYC, never seem to make any of these lists.

Leave it to the wizards in Hollywood to turn a tale of mixed-up luggage into a magical tale of star-crossed lovers! Something from Tiffany’s is a spiritual successor to Blake Edward’s 1961 delight Breakfast at Tiffany’s, starring Mickey Rooney as a Chinaman who shouts at hookers. Well for this reviewer, all I could…

DO: Strip away the more esoteric links to King’s work (i.e., no Patrick), strip away King as a character, focus on the Ka-Tet and the mechanics of the world having moved on.

I’ve complained before about him taking source material that worked perfectly for standard-length feature films (a format he’s done good work in) and then warping it into multi-episode miniseries, so I’m glad to see he’s now applying serialization to the right material. Plus, this means no reason to watch that Dark…

And I said what about

“not liking marvel, an objectively over-saturated IP market, means you must be a bigot”

You must be new to the internet.

It’s this kind of thing that has me reading io9 less and less. I miss the days when they celebrated geek culture instead of just emptily snarking at it.

You are so wrong in so many ways about the Guardians but fine you don’t like it and they made you do it anyway and et gustibus non disputandum est.