Actually looks intriguing...

The beauty of Alien is that you really don’t really have to bother with heavy duty worldbuilding. All you need is an isolated environment, a bunch of hapless meatbags, and one or more monsters.

That’s interesting, regarding the fan edit of BR2049...!

Neil Gaiman’s “George R.R. Martin is not your bitch” is absolutely a given. But as a reader, I am not George R.R. Martin’s bitch either.

Sorry it took so long to reply... don’t really know where the time has gone but I have been pretty busy on the computer of late. Regardless...!

I think you can see that going on with some creator-owned series in North America, where the same writer/artist (assuming they’re not one and the same) does a long, self-contained story that lasts as long as they’re invested in the project. Obviously stuff like Hellboy or Saga, or going further back, Jeff Smith’s Bone…

From what I understand, manga does sell better than traditional (i.e., “floppy”) comics in North America... And if you look at the manga sections in Barnes & Noble, it’s easy to see why!

Gonna try to paste the response to both your responses in one place (save a little digital space!)...

I think (Lester) looked at the fight scenes in Superman comics and decided they had to be played for laughs... otherwise it would mean hundreds, if not thousands of people dying as collateral damage. Which is exactly what happens in Man of Steel.

I would tend to agree with Moore that superhero comics are primarily for kids, though there’s no reason to look down upon them for this reason, any more than readers should be disdainful of literature written for children or teenagers.

From what I understand, Lester got the job because he had directed the very successful Three Musketeers movies for the Salkinds, which were also filmed back-to-back.

The late ‘80s was an interesting ... because many of the “psychotic superhero” stories were written by British creators, who believed American comics’ dependency on costumed characters was a sign that the USA was absolutely barmy, a banana republic if the bananas were dipped in brown acid. This was definitely Moore’s…

That’s arguably the Watchmen effect. Moore based the Comedian on Peacemaker, and I imagine the show is Gunn’s way of redeeming the character, making him so ludicrous that he doesn’t seem like a psychotic.

This seems like kind of a bad idea (Fiege not using writers who are familiar with/fans of Marvel comics). I get it that you want someone with an outsider’s perspective, because that means they’d be more likely to make a movie that would appeal to a wider audience. But someone like Gunn made the GotG trilogy, which is…

The thing with looking at older films through “modern” lenses is that people forget just how revolutionary it was... when it was first released.

I sense a deep cultural divide between Marvel and DC’s movie divisions. The people who make the Marvel movies, or at least the first wave or so of Marvel movies, like Feige, Whedon, and Gunn, were obviously Marvel fans when they were kids and grew up reading the comics. (Even Kenneth Branagh has talked about reading…

First... yeah, I noticed my old posts seem to have vanished! Ah well, nothing is forever!

Yeah, I’m with you there. He does feel like he brought something interesting and unique to his portrayal of Bruce Wayne.

Things are so up in the air with WB for the past few years that stories such as these in the article are depressingly consistent, if nothing else.

While I (somewhat) agree with your logic regarding Ilsa, they’re going to have to do some serious explaining to reveal how that happened. I think you’re on the right track but remember the whole “Grace joining the IMF” stuff happened after and she seemed to not be a total partner... yet.