They’ve been making superhero comics for 84 years. There are times of abundance and lean times, but they haven’t stopped. I’ve personally been reading them weekly for 14 years and am not fatigued.

Andor failed in the eyes of rabid YouTube dorks with armies of braindead drones.

I dunno. I’ve enjoyed Phase IV because it reminds me of the Bronze Age comics that got me into Marvel. No apparent masterplan, just a lot of shambolic weirdness mixed with nostalgia for older days.

Really beginning to think that the MCU’s phenomenal success, like that of Star Wars in the ‘70s and ‘80s, is a fluke that cannot be repeated by any other studio, no matter how hard they try, and that any such efforts are doomed to failure or at the very least a very distant second-place status. 

This whole thing sounds like a version of “You can’t fire me! I quit!”

That level of swagger seems like it was probably justified after the first Wonder Woman (“As the only one here to make an entry in this franchise with a favorable Metacritic score, you’ll forgive me if I’m not looking for suggestions from the people who greenlit the Marthaverse.”)

I’d have just sent back the review aggregates for WW84. “Any notes would be appreciated.”

It sounds like she thought she had more clout than she did. I lol’d at the petty passive aggressive move of sending her boss a Wikipedia link for character arcs. That’s some god tier narcissism.

I mean no offense to Patty here, but if WW84 was any indication of the direction you wanted to take things, well... I have to say that, for once, I’m siding with the WB brass on this one.

Ichiro Okouchi is credited as the series’ writer, so he’s more than just “one of the people.”

It’s basically Revolutionary MS Pilot Utena, and that’s alright with me.

Comparing it to the Tuskegee experiments is asinine. Those had nothing to do with soldiers or the military. Literally the only thing that connects this to anything related to African-American history is that these are sentient flying monkeys and that “monkeys” is a racist pejorative for black people, and that’s hardly…

I mean Jon’s a Targ so...

It was heavily implied in the original books that the Targaryans were well aware of the white walker threat. The Prince That Was Promised is constantly referenced with Rhaegar being obsessed with either he being the Prince or his son being it. Dany even had a vision of Rhaegar holding his son and using the phrase “a…

Wonder Woman: Their best recreation of the Marvel formula.

Exactly, they were perfectly cromulent movies whose reputation benefits from the low bar set by their predecessors. Same for “Wonder Woman.”

“Aquaman, Shazam, and Harley Quinn were all great in their own various ways”

Still thinking about it days later. The horrifying squelching of everyone being eaten. The regurgitated remains on the house. All things Michael Wincott (MICHAEL WINCOTT!!!!). The “true” form of the UFO/UPA in the end. The little pockets of big humor. I’m happy for more films of this scale that remain in my…

Full agreement. It pretty much messed him and never recovered, but manifesting in a supremely hubris-filled way.

It was a good monster movie, in the end. I didn’t find it particularly complex or strange in that regard - it had a pretty neat visual metaphor and some interesting subtext and characterization.