I kind of assumed that most of Matt's inheritance was devoured by Columbia Law. It couldn't have been a huge payout initially, and that sort of Ivy education is pricy as all goddamn hell.

I had no idea who Ben Urich was before wading into this show, and I'm loving the performance. The actor's face is great, he's got the emotional chops to sell the dialog and they're doing about as much with the role - a very tired "cynical old crusading investigative reporter" trope - as can be expected.

The way he refers to his dragon Wesley as his "friend" is very sad little fat kid. He's playing Fisk as a kid dressing up in his father's suits, trying to be the Big Man by living like his idea of the Big Man. Very, very smart, but almost no emotional development.

Six degrees of Agent Coulson says "yes". Admittedly, the only thing tying GotG into the rest of the MCU at this point is the infinity gems and Thanos, but it's still a connection.

Turk is kind of weird, this one black thug in a sea of Russian mafiya, yakuza, and whatever the hell ethnicity Fisk's horde of white guys in suits are.

I really didn't expect the overgrown child that the show is giving us. It definitely is different.

In between those peaks, DC had a really rough quarter-century. Jim Shooter claims that DC was on the verge of selling off to Marvel at one point during his tenure, but they stepped back from the brink at the last moment. Not before he wrote up some treatments about how to merge the lines into each other, though.

I don't know that I agree - in fact, I kind of think I don't - but damn if that isn't an elegant way to phrase it.

I'm hoping he's going to blame an exercise-band snapping next…

I don't think I'll ever be a SHIELD booster, but aside from a rough season opener they've been positively watchable this year.

The band that wrote and recorded it was some sort of anarcho-syndicalist commune. Nothing we or fate could do to them would be worse than what their own bullshit will inflict on them in time.

No, and I've been reasonably convinced by some pretty good counter-argumentation that what Arendt argued in Eichmann in Jerusalem was fundamentally mistaken, a false-equivalency attempt to reduce exceptional, actually unforgivable evil into something universal and common, to resolve the problem of theodicy within the…

Daredevil's so burdened with the comparison that the recent Waid run had an early lampshade-hanging gag with a by-stander yelling at Murdock "look! It's Red Batman!"

Christ, I forgot that Connor was played by Kartheiser. I haven't watched that season since it aired…

How do they explain Samson and Goliath? Hell, there's stuff in Daniel and Ezekiel which could cover the subject if you squint at the right angle.

I'm not a huge Marvel guy, so I may be misrepresenting the total package here, but my impression is that Hell's Kitchen has had a different trajectory in the comics than in real life. They've always been hip deep in yakuza and minor supervillains and mafioso, and never really gentrified when the real neighborhood…

At least one goon got off a shot in that hallway, but it was short enough that Danny Crowe's beloved 21 foot rule came into play. In fact, I'd say that Daredevil pretty much lives inside the 21 foot rule.

Lee may be too old to be trusted behind the wheel of a large vehicle these days. He might actually back over a grip or AD.

The cross-licensing agreement hit with enough time they had opportunity to CGI the headlines if they wanted to do so. It's probably intentional.

His roommate stole his credit card and signed them up for Netflix.