ATTN no-one in particular: If you don’t read 2000 AD on the regs, kindly fuck off.

Don’t understand all the cynicism in the comics - looks fun to me so far! Consider me hyped, can’t wait to find out more!

Sad but true. Still, good chance Zazie Beetz does the role so well that she becomes the default reference for Domino in my headcanon, at least.

Superb reading, inspiring stuff.

B-b-b-but, io9 told me that this movie would be *bad*!

Am I also not gray on The Root now? Holy moley, I’ve been elevated!

Here ya go: http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Thing.html

Plus is it SUPER unlikely in a Marvel movie for *all* the white people to be bad, some bigwig would’ve piped up about that no doubt.

+1

Always found it noteworthy how the mostly Jewish creators of Marvel Comics in the ‘60s (especially Stan Lee himself) were keen to push boundaries and establish multiple progressive (as defined by the era, at least) characters such as Black Panther, The Falcon, Bill Foster (a.k.a Black Goliath) and The Prowler... and…

Agreed - in fact, Nolan’s Batman in DKR is probs an even better analogy that Snyder’s Superman in MoS. I mean, if Batman had his heart broken and damaged his leg, he simply wouldn’t take 8 years off. Emotional trauma and physical pain are fuel to Batman’s fire. Similarly, with Luke Skywalker, channeling/harnessing his…

Goshdarmit, that link did not resolve properly - here’s the post I mean: https://io9.gizmodo.com/1822601667

You deserve a proper response, so check out my post further down the chain.

IMHO Luke deserved to be better characterised all the way through, rather than have his heroic nature relegated to a Deus Ex Machina right at the very end.

In what way does Star Wars: A New Hope challenge the audience?

My three stars to your one says different. Ner-ner-nuh-ner-ner! :-P

You know it, chummer!

if that’s not life-affirming and celebratory, I don’t know what is.

Puh-REACH!