I mean, those are all great runs (I especially loved Remender's turn on X-force, Brubaker's Cap, and Hickman's FF), but right off the bat, we run into the issues I mentioned of relying on an extended universe. Secret Warriors doesn't make sense until you introduce a ton of other characters (it took them half a season…

Oh man. I think I need to retire my Correction Glasses now…

Not so sure I'm convinced that recasting the roles will do them any favors, but I don't really think that will be a problem. They're already priming either Stan or Mackie for taking over the role, as has happened in the comic books at various points already, and the books lately have been able to have other characters…

Oh god. It's Attack of the Clones all over again.

(adjusts glasses) So in the Clone Wars cartoon leading up to Episode 3, the episode that led directly into the battle over Coruscant. In that episode, Grievous leads the abduction of Palpatine. While escaping, part of his body gets crushed by Yoda using some force telekinesis stuff, resulting in the asthmatic…

Chief?

"You are like the Sebulba of being an asshole"

My illness-addled brain read this as "Woody Allen might play Han Solo's mentor." I was briefly perplexed (but intrigued!)

Which is a fair stance to take, but most people watching the movie have read the graphic novel, so they'll be comparing it in their heads. Which means they're going to often be pretty dismissive of the movie. To me, the movie had all of the flaws and the graphic novel, and Snyder's style (an incessant use of…

Yeah, all of this sounds about right regarding Civil War. I thought that particular story as a Cap movie didn't make much sense, and it also didn't make much sense at that time in the cinematic universe. And it does feel like they're mostly spinning their wheels to introduce new toys characters and prep up for the…

I'll defer to you on that. I'm not super familiar with Justice League's history. But the point stands: comic books thrive on changing things up pretty regularly, shifting back to a modified status quo, then shaking things up again. Never understood this idea that the franchise need to absolutely adhere to one model…

I generally agree with your sentiments (except I wasn't all that big a fan of Watchmen; didn't hate it as much as others, but I wasn't really into it either). It would be nice if the comic adaptations started innovating a bit more with their stories, but there are a couple of limitations that the movies have that the…

I think the difference between Watchmen and the Marvel/DC adaptations is that the former was a limited series whereas the latter covers an expansive, decades long run of stories and material. Obviously, you can point to certain points in Batman's publications and say "That there is better." I could also point to a ton…

In some cases, sure, but you could also make the case that a lot of comic books (and basically every single team book outside of Justice League) survive because they shake things up periodically. Sometimes that means going back to the roots, but more often it means adjusting things to reflect how the world is changing…

Story-time: one time, I joined a bunch of other rowdy soccer fans to go on a cross-state bus trip to watch our team play away. Almost of us partied the night before and were a little hungover in the morning, but since it was a long ride, we figured we could just sleep through it all.

I think the general consensus on Watchmen is it doesn't count because it missed the point of the source material and the source material is actually superior to the movie (which you can't always argue with comic book adaptations)

The franchise thing has gotten really overbearing. To me, that started with Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and the Star Wars prequels, which in my mind I always imagine as a late 90s thing even though that's not really all that accurate.

Yeah, but how else are they going to get superhero fans to hate-click through the site?

Maybe? I watched Gremlins over the holidays and realized it's a pretty dumb movie overall, to be honest. I think if I was going to find the "back in the old days" analog to Transformers, it would probably be Top Gun, but Michael Bay's series of atrocities are the dregs of cinema, so… You may have me there.

Yeah, I had trouble referring to comic book movies as an art form, so I clearly also have some hesitations about blindly praising the genre. I think they can be a hell of a lot of fun and I regularly read super hero comic books to boot, but I'll readily admit they don't exactly do much more than entertain. That said,…