I think the way some changes have been grandfathered in without much comment has emboldened Lucas.

Remember, this is the guy who even mucked with his arty, serious THX 1138, adding a masturbation machine in one scene and CG apemen in another.

Well, you know that saying about sugar, vinegar, and attracting flies.

You know what, after writing my earlier comment I've read and thought some more about Sady Doyle's two posts regarding Ice & Fire and her responses to readers' comments and I think she makes some very interesting points. Not that I agree with her central thesis, nor with many of her ancillary arguments [those which I…

Why not think of fiction as a consensual, mutually constructed, private (in the experience) fantasy - in the broad sense, not merely 'sexy wish fulfillment' - between a writer and reader (who will never meet)? Can't fantasies be transgressive, politically incorrect, even shameful? They sure as hell can. Some of the…

"What would having spider DNA constituting a percentage of your blood - what would that do?"

"It's a sloppy, rushed, uninspired piece of early 80s schlock that had no business being as bad as it is."

I believe that Conan is usually the least-armored fighter (at least when it comes to humans) in those Marvel stories.

Red Sonja is one of the major culprits as far as bad influences.

Rather than yet another Emmerichian apocalypse this looks like the culmination of a dozen years of movies that are tinted, color desaturated, and/or lightened in post-production.

Rather than yet another Emmerichian apocalypse this looks like the culmination of a dozen years of movies that are tinted, color desaturated, and/or lightened in post-production.

Indeed!

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Bulgeman!

Another Earth's Brit Marling (writer, star) and Mike Cahill (writer, director).

Doot Doot by Freur from Let Me In. (The basement scene.) I can't find a good video clip.

Excellent movie.

Beaton is a genius. Definitely the smartest webcomic out there.

This also illustrates how talent and expertise in one area in no way necessarily confers wisdom and astuteness in any other. Rick Veitch, who scripted and penciled this crud, is a legendary comics creator. (Brat Pack, The One, Maximortal...) But so is Neal Adams, whose bonkers expanding earth theory was lampooned…

Screw Image, now and forever.

I loved Super and The Specials. But I'm getting an uncomfortable Sucker Punch vibe from this.