With the way they’re setting this show up, they really could get away with Superman actually being Superman while he’s being Superman. They’re getting better, at least, compared to Supergirl. Supergirl needs to learn a valuable lesson about family, love, or life before she can remember she has freezy breath. Superman…

The funny thing about Superman is that his combination of godlike power and incorruptible morality kinda forces both the writers and the audience to exist in a perpetual state of brainless presentism. Is money an issue and/or allegory literally staring them directly in the face this very moment? If so, well then, off…

I think there’s certainly something to be asked about it: is there actually any evidence that it’s different in any meaningful way, or are we once again religiously (pun mostly certainly intended) insisting that it is because that’s what we feel in our guts?

>When, in my mind, age-appropriate kids are the ONLY acceptable audience for it, developmentally speaking.

You are not. The strip was missing another layer that might’ve justified its existence. Like, I dunno, maybe having the NPCs start making cheeky 4th wall breaking references.

Sorry, but the response we were looking for was “do we look like we were born tomorrow?”

WWE, heh.

Depending on how the next 20 years shake out, Legion could end up being a ridiculously important game in the history of gameplay mechanics and ideas (including how to efficiently generate shitloads of voiced lines.)

I’m not sure how you can know anything about the culture war bullshit that predated Eminem by a mere decade (all the way up to the halls of Congress, repeatedly!) and think that somehow a bunch of paranoid rappers are a harbinger of fascism.

Well, that’s where unfortunately we have to get super meta. At every turn so far, one moral remains consistent in Wanda’s story: you gotta keep engaging with the real world and with other real people. That’s what “God” (read: the writers and their closest in-universe proxies) is saying over and over again to her and…

Totally. Most of those who learn history are doomed to watch it rhyme.

I don’t necessarily disagree with anything you just wrote, but I don’t think it, in turn, is a disagreement or counter to anything I wrote previously.

Well, who is “they?” If you mean the writers, then yeah, that’s a conversation. MCU has tried harder than most, but it hasn’t fully confronted Moore’s criticism about superhero material being inherently pro-fascist. I’m not sure you even can unless you pointedly remove the term “hero” from the equation, like The Boys…

She could, I suppose, but at that point she’s made a decision that she’s going to move on to something else. Ultimately, you have to make a judgment call as to whether the show earned the emotional breakthrough that it telegraphed to the audience. I think it did so well enough. I think it presented a good mix of…

The entire entertainment industry revolves around future dissatisfied customers that aren’t entitled to refunds and are stuck trying to get the most out of the money they sunk. Meanwhile, video games have more-consciously adopted addictive loops than any form of entertainment since literal drugs and literal gambling…

Lola Bunny bust into Space Jam looking like a snack and then was the best baller on the team. Is that naked pandering that’s trying to have its cake and eat it too? It totally is.

It actually is, though. “Corner a totally unserved market early and ride the inherent structural advantages roughshod over as many new competitors as possible” is a classic. Total classic. Distressingly effective.

Setting aside the fact that it was a short, somewhat-disconnected second entry into an ostensible trilogy that’s never getting finished, the game also was less stable than HR, and never fixed. You can push a freeze on PC by opening up various menus (the powers wheel, IIRC) and then trying to do something else…

I’d say this is a wonderfully nuanced illustration of the toxic, chilling effect of powerful entities on artistic expression. Hey man, if you want to be truly free to do your thing, all you have to do is kill yourself for 24 hours a day and also be way richer than this very-clearly innovative and talented new artist,…

Well with all the repressive frontier bullshit, probably not great.