"…a Terminator becoming the CEO of a company or something": Yes, although that wasn't as dumb as it sounds - it impersonated the reclusive founder of the company, who was thought to be a bit nuts due to a personal tragedy, so no one questioned the robot's lack of people skills too much. I miss that show.

It's not incredibly clever, but I thought the point was pretty clear. If you think that Marvel actually accomplished its goal with the Ultimate stuff (i.e. if those changes really made them more interesting and "relevant" or whatever; I don't really, but that's what they said they were doing at least), then that still…

"Not based on any comic" is clearly untrue, unless it just means that they're not adapting one specific comic storyline, which would be a big "so what" as far as I'm concerned. As the article pointed out, they are using plenty of premises from the Ultimate FF; Doom's name not being literally Doom is one of those (he…

Yes, that was the case in the original FF, and in the Ultimate FF he was an even closer friend. (No, not that way— he just helped Reed with his youthful experimentation. (No, not that kind of experimentation.))

Eh, the character hasn't been written that consistently over the years. I mean he's always been a dick, but at least in his first several story arcs in Swamp Thing and Hellblazer, his world-saving activities weren't based on any personal gain other than living in the world (or other community) that was in danger.…

I think the idea was that since Claire Denis is an interesting director with a very non-Hollywood and non-TV style, who has dabbled in really creepy moody horror, she might be able to come up with a demon-kid story that'd feel weird and original, but that the average treatment of that story is just boring now. I kind…

One of the funnier throwaway bits in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which didn't make it into Blade Runner was that androids had been infiltrating the entertainment industry for some time, as evidenced by how the same comedian/talk show host was appearing on so many different shows every day that he obviously…

You may want to read Tim Powers's Three Days to Never if you haven't.

Shit, I forgot that he made that too. What movies did he not make? Anyway, yes, Silkwood is very good.

No, what you wrote was clear - I just don't see Delano's version as being a worse person. Or rather, I don't think Moore's version is really possible to judge one way or the other; he's not seen from very close up.

It's not impossible that there are also people who read the Swamp Thing stories first and still disagree with you. I don't know, I did read Hellblazer first (at least the first few issues) and the character does come across differently, but I don't see that as Delano making him "worse", more like just changing the…

But— but YOU asked me to go check the basement— and I didn't want to complain about your creepy taste in music— that is SO unfair. I think we should spend some time apart, if I ever get out of this giant anaconda.

Is it really fair to say that me stabbing my head with a screwdriver is my own responsibility, if the devil made me do it? I mean even though that wouldn't have happened if the guy hadn't gone against clear instructions, still, the freaking devil did literally make him do it. Also, if you're going to make someone…

Heh - as a former nurse I'm used to seeing medical stuff on TV be handled in a silly way, but still that bit cracked me up. First, if I may nerd out a little: vitamin K isn't the antidote for what Midnite gave John (heparin), that would be protamine sulfate; vitamin K is the antidote for a different anticoagulant…

Afterthought: I think what happened after issue 3 wasn't so much that he toned it down, but he ended up writing the character as someone who wouldn't devote so much thought to mundane politics; regular human-on-human injustice is something John reacts to only when it happens right in front of his face.

Oh— I thought they just meant that it was almost time for the devil to show up and get her (there was an earlier bit about how the warning sign for this was that the writing had started to fade off of the contract). I guess you could argue that selling your soul should still allow you to live out the rest of your…

That's more or less how I saw #3 too, but I think that issue was kind of an outlier; it's certainly nothing like the first two. IIRC, Delano got a lot of flak for it and was probably asked to tone it down after that, although who knows, he may just not have had a firm idea of what he wanted the series to be yet.

"Why did the wife suddenly start dying?"

Just to nitpick that last part: in the comics, the Resurrection Crusade was an American group though they'd started making some inroads in England. Thatcher wasn't behind it, nor would it have made sense for Delano to portray her as such; she was Christian and right-wing, but US-style fundamentalism wasn't her style…

"…lots of people who don't work there…"