hell yeah. it's good.

It's the Gravity's Rainbow of our time.

Uh that's #TheTwoFriends!

Does anyone else listen to Blank Check, starring our once very own SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMS?

Agreed, but that's also because Astro City is, at its core, optimistic. It's a reconstruction of not just what super heroes would be if they're real, but everything that they could be.

Why didn't Clark just save his mom?

This is a bad take.

The problem is that Snyder's interpretation is of a Superman as a messianic character unsure of his own role/power as seen by an Ayn Rand acolyte. Thus his uncertainty derives not from his own moral code or realization that he can not be everywhere at all times, but because the people beneath him due not trust him.

When I was a kid, I had a big 90's omnibus of Batman that ran through his entire existence (and I think even had an ad for TDKR in it), and the one thing I really recall from it is being able to feel the tone of the stories change as the book went forward in time.

In terms of your first point about the talking heads: that's pretty much exactly how I read them, too, when I first read the book a few years ago. It was the paper-thin satire of stuff like therapy that made them exhausting to read, not the length or structure.

Yeah, but his suit looks fantastic in it.

Out of all of this, the idea that Batman v Superman positions Lex Luthor as a Pontius Pilate analogue is the one I disagree with by far the most, and I say that even though I really dislike The Dark Knight Returns.

She's never mentioned by name because Snyder confirmed their names come from Luthor in this universe (he said something along the lines that the names were too silly / too obvious for the characters to come up with themselves).

Where was Rakata Prime said to be the birthplace of the First Order? The theory I saw as that it was possibly the planet Luke was on at the film's conclusion.

I think the visual guide for Star Wars—or a book like it—notes that Kylo Ren's blade is based on designs from the time of the Great Scourge of Malachor.

I hope one day someone on the show stops and says, for no real reason, "Ah yes. I remember the events of Knights of the Old Republic 1 and Knights of the Old Republic 2 very well."

I hate how their name has overshadowed the fact that their self-titled was really damn good.

It took me a minute to grasp that the landmark was Highest WORLDWIDE Gross of All Time after reading that bit about Passion of the Christ.

I've been meaning to check it out. I remember having a moment of disconnect a few years ago when I read it—always hearing how it was the Greatest Batman Comic Ever—and sat baffled at the ending where Batman is training a guerrilla army of mutant criminals underground to "take back" the city. It's fucking insane.

It looks like he made them grey boxes?