I also think there are people who are claiming to not like it for irony cool points.

Good character actor who was also a Hollywood insider (with instant name recognition) and a producer. He’s not as good as contemporaries like from similar backgrounds like Kurt Russell or the Bridges bros., but seems to have been better at the business.

Jim Starlin’s Adam Warlock is largely based on Roy Thomas’s reimagining of the character created by Lee/Kirby. 

Secret Identity is really good. I wondered if Busiek based the Clark in that story on a bit on himself — they are both married, successful writers who moved to Manhattan as young men.

I think fandom in general can be far too toxic nowadays. That said, I’m definitely in the camp that have strong critiques of his themes and directorial tropes. I have issues with the vision of his franchise structure ( though some of the blame for that must go to the studio)— I feel like DC was rushing to catch up…

I think there are a lot of influences and antecedents to Miller’s Barry: the Spider-Man archetype, including the Wally West Flash from the JL cartoon; trickster god archetypes;Miller’s own acting style in other roles. I also think there has been an industry interest in depicting autism as it becomes understood as…

Both Snyder and Whedon seem to understand that Barry is very smart but ironically it is Snyder who most shows Flash exploring the possibilities of his powers like a scientist. The dorkiness seems cliche — the Peter Parker affect — at this point.

* The Snyder Cut is a better movie than Whedon’s JL. It’s more coherent. The aesthetics are more pleasing, the action set pieces are more exciting and dynamic. I miss Aquaman’s monologue when he is sitting on the golden lasso, I found it funny.

She lost a management position that was vulnerable for a 27 year old with no management experience in a different genre of publication to take when she couldn’t gain the support of the staff.

TBF this is a lot of speculation on my part. Professional jealousy may be part of it. But I’ve read enough criticism by other journalist of the kind of reporting platforms like Axios, Politico do — access-driven, amoral stenographer that treats politics like sports— to think there may have been concerns more…

I think a lot of the opposition to McCammond was about those tweets. But I also think a the Teen Vogue staff never supported her selection. Her rapid ascension — to them— seemed like style over substance, access journalism over adversarial reporting. This is speculation on my part, but it didn’t seem like any staffers…

An R rated Venom movie, featuring Snyder level violence and Deadpool level irreverence, influenced by the Donny Cates comics, starring Tom Hardy and a lead from Natural Born Killers would be a hit. Simply the right content at the right time. It’s malpractice if the film producers don’t seize the moment.

Of course I understand the small, pitiful lives of these “heroes” and inane, laughable morality that drives them. It requires no effort from my vastly superior mind and makes my plans to utterly destroy them that much eas— Oh shit, I’m monologuing again...

I think the bigger problem for film makers has been how to make a character so idealized and virtuous in personality interesting. Because, generally speaking, the American populace is more cynical about human nature and our institutions post the 1960s. And while audiences may still be attracted by innocence, pure…

I think this is a great version of Superman, but I think the essence of what would make him great was always there. There’s been too much focus on his power set and people not understanding how to make interesting conflict when the hero is nigh omnipotent. But the challenge with Clark as a character is not that he is…

Good for Whitehouse, but I’d be shocked if Garland has the nerve to look into the boiling festering mess that is the FBI. I don’t believe that they tried to entrap Trump, but its hard to look at the sketchy behavior of Wray, Rosenstein, McCabe and Comey, and the problematic nature of actions by the FBI as whole and…

All were indeed quality, prestige dramas that preceded Homocide and are still watchable today. But none were as unsentimental, novelistic and clinical in their storytelling as Homocide, which presages the unflinching bleak view of the human condition presented in those HBO shows.

They should have racism difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Italy.

Us: Man, you know what is fucked up? Racism.

I don’t see anything vital in the series or the original source material — which the show has veered from significantly — that would get in the way of Vanya being a transgender character. It would be an enormous creative undertaking to incorporate because Vanya is a pivotal character on the show, whose actions…