My company had 10 interns this summer, and I gave them a brief training session during their first week of work. To break the ice, I went around the room and asked everyone to share their name and favorite movie. One kid said that his favorite movie of all time was Spider-Man 3. I can’t remember another time that a…

I became a fan of comics through reading my dad’s collection. He collected as a kid in the 60s and then started buying stuff again regularly in the 80s when he was in college and grad school and stopped around 1990, and the few comics from the 90s that I saw when I was an actual kid looked far inferior to the stuff…

Not that I’m saying Cheney is a great person, but he actually was publicly in favor of gay marriage.

I didn’t particularly care for Dunst’s Mary Jane in these movies, because:

I’d love to see James Robinson given carte-blanche on some obscure character and try to make a long run of it.  His stuff for Superman and Wonder Woman wasn’t too good, but I feel like he’d still be able to shine on a title where he has freedom to explore his own little preoccupations.

This is really hardly here or there, but could we please one day get an episode of TV where someone says “hey, slow down” to an extremely out-of-the-blue sexual advance and the other party does indeed slow down?

Whoa, I’d actually say Tom Cruise is almost exactly the opposite of what you described. He’s always seemed like a good actor who has refused to take on challenging roles since the late 90s. It's almost like he's a good actor who really wishes he was a good stunt man instead.

Paul Auster, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Lethem are all authors I'll always check out at the library, but never buy again.

The impression I get is that this film has a bit of a different message - you don’t need to grow up (or at least, you don’t need to stop having fun).  I think in real life, you can be a fun person who’s also responsible.  It sounds like the characters in this film are goofy but have built up their careers.  I’d like…

Yeah, it’s sad! Friendship is important.  I don’t think it’s ever too late to make a new friend or reconnect with an old one.

Why do you dislike Lee’s promotion? I can’t say I’ve really enjoyed any of his actual creative work since his (Uncanny) X-Men days, but I think he actually has a skill for fostering talent and/or deal making. I know other guys like Scott Dunbier and John Layman were doing more of the editorial dirty work when…

Was there any tangible effect of Possessed Melanie knocking out Clark two weeks ago? I thought that would stop him from filling the role David wanted him to play, but he arrived with that big tuning fork with seemingly plenty of time (even though his efforts were rendered moot by Farouk at the end).

I feel kind of weird that this is a big to-do. On one hand, I don’t share Hinkle’s beliefs (and I say this as a practicing Catholic - the stuff that evangelical Christians take away from the Gospels is sometimes quite confusing to me) and I would have acted differently if I was in her position. However, her actions…

This is a pretty awesome Q&A. It’s much harder to stay in the narrow B range without ever delivering flawless work or complete stinkers than it is to average a B+ body of work over a career with lots of highlights and lowlights. My picks for the most consistent B+ creators of all time (keeping in mind that I consider…

I think this article was more about low-variance B+ers, which is much harder to do. Adding to your examples, Neil Young has a career average probably lower than a B for me - but that’s because he has some true D-/F albums to counterbalance his numerous masterpieces. Billy Joel never had a masterpiece, but his worst…

I personally would rate Springsteen’s career average as a “B” at best because he has made a lot of mediocre albums at this point, but I rate “Born to Run,” “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle,” “The River,” and “Nebraska” as true A/A+ albums. Billy Joel’s best album is probably “The Stranger” at a very…

It’s weird that they’re not doing Death personified here, because in Thanos’s first post-credits appearance, they had a great pun with his vizier warning Thanos that attacking Earth again would be “courting Death.” Then Thanos smiled because “courting” could be taken to mean “dating”...

I agree with you - Ant-Man was such a pleasant surprise, and the new cast members in the sequel have me pretty excited (Michelle Pfeiffer! Laurence Fishburne! Randall Park!). I’m still definitely going to see Infinity War, though.

I think this joke has some trith in it, and is why it’s fair to say that both sides bear (not necessarily equal amounts of) blame for our poor political culture. Nowadays, it’s not just the politicians - extremists on either side feel the need to vilify people for expressing admiration of even non-political actions of…

Maggin is so underrated. I wish more of his stuff was in print. He didn’t really write any ambitious multi-part storylines, but every Superman story he wrote was good.