Any use of Alexis Denisof that isn’t either a) a main role with long, meaty character arc (best character ever in the televised Whedonverse... FIGHT ME!) or b) a sniveling henchman (Avengers) is a tragic waste.

No. No it really wasn’t.

A minuscule percentage of the movie-going public will know or care who Darkseid or Thanos were as comic characters, much less who is “better.” I’m being generous when I say minuscule.

Okay, you actually just gave me the right plot for this whole “star-is-not-the-captain” thing to work. That hadn’t occurred to me, but that would totally work.

If they do that, then what’s the point of asserting so often that it’s a Trek where the captain isn’t the star of the show? She would be the captain. Just not in the first few episodes. I suppose that could be to hide the “surprise,” but people are already positing that this is what’s going to happen so it was never…

Star Trek: Family Ties

Ha. I thought you were talking about crossing over Doom Patrol with whatever DC stood for. Thus the confusion. I go as far back with Detective Comics Comics as I do with Marvel (further, I guess, if you count the runs that influenced me growing up and not just the ones that were coming out at the time). I know it…

Okay, so apparently it is father/son after all. Cautious optimism reinstated.

You know, since the first real trailer came out I’ve actually been cautiously hopeful for this film. But needing to overturn thousands of years of classical mythology in making Zeus and Ares brothers just to somehow make this origin story work screams of incredible stupidity and laziness. Stupidity and laziness are…

You know, I’d never explicitly compared Ben Grimm and Cliff Steele in my mind, but now that you mention it they are so clearly the same guy, right down to their general dialog style. Or at least their classic selves became the same. At the very beginning, Ben was such a raging/violent dick. Not that I didn’t love him…

In defense of the Lockjaw-as-extra-deformed-Inhuman theory (which I find extremely creepy/disturbing, considering how he’s been treated by-and-large by ‘other’ Inhumans), Lockjaw is the only Inhuman dog I ever recall seeing in the comics. It seems less likely that he’s the only Inhuman dog in existence than that he’s…

What you seem to refuse to want to understand is that you identify with non white, non male characters from already growing up within a framework where white male protagonists and supporting characters are the massively overwhelming majority, despite living within a culture where white males are not remotely the same…

Since 99-plus percent of what’s out there stars characters that don’t look like this little girl (or the majority of the global population), then this isn’t really a problem, is it? She pretty much only has characters she has to bridge that gap for. So your argument is really moot.

Never mind.

I really appreciate the heads-up on this book as well as the available first chapter. Nice take on hard-boiled stylistic language. It’s going in the queue.

My post has nothing to do with your, Dr. Lizs, but unless I put it in an approved thread, it will never show up. What’s up with this comments system, anyway?

No matter how badly Dick fans wish otherwise, this is how the world tends to picture him:

WELL DONE.

Yes.

My memory is shabby, but I think a lot of what made Azrael as relatively dangerous as he was was the armor itself. I think outside of that and eventually inside of it he got his ass handed to him a fair amount.