NERD RANT: Madelyne Pryor is such an odd character. Apparently when Claremont came up with the idea it was just supposed to be a coincidence she looked like Jean, but the clone idea didn’t come until much later. And he also took the same name for her as the baby on a plane in Avengers Annual #10, a sole survivor of a…

And yet Spider-man had a pretty comic-accurate costume, and Green Goblin’s costume was somehow even MORE ridiculous than the comics.

The different is that she was just a brainwashed kid who was pretty limited in her violent exploits. Talbot, on the other hand, was literally killing at will, destroying an entire city and was about to destroy the earth. Plus, they repeatedly tried to save Talbot before concluding he was too far gone and too dangerous…

There is no fluidity to Billy Dee Williams’ Lando. He macks on Princess Leia and that’s pretty much it. He may be LGBTQ off screen or something, but there is nothing in the films to suggest he is. I don’t know why we have to make everyone LGBTQ or risk being labeled a bigot.

Because apparently it still needs to be said: if it isn’t textual, it isn’t representation. It actually just kind of sucks to be all “well he totally is, but we’re neither going to show or tell that.” Because the unspoken second half of that sentence is either “because it doesn’t matter” or “because it isn’t okay.”

This is such useless information if it’s never even hinted at onscreen. This started with JK Rowling patting herself on the back for saying that Dumbledore was gay, and then quickly clarifying there would be no room to address it in the prequel films.

You think that disenfranchised voters, the poor and ignorant don’t care about getting fucked in ways they can’t even comprehend? That’s cute. Kindly fuck off with that pedantry though.

I’ve only dipped my toe into Jessica Jones (it’s so good, but so traumatic). Their diversity issues don’t deter me from watching. I definitely side-eye any show set in NYC that’s not diverse and this show is pretty decent about it. But I am uncomfortable where there are such strong white female leads and the…

This is like dipshit hipster politics. “Pssh, I knew the government was corrupt WAY before you. Get with it.”

Please explain exactly how lying dead in a funeral home is ‘acting like a criminal’? Or did you mean the deceased was acting like a criminal when he was killed by police under pretty questionable circumstances so his family should should expect the police to barge in and do whatever they wanted to the body of the…

I will never understand why people react to negative writing about Elon Musk as if they were a drunk, co-dependent girlfriend.

Doom wasn’t robbed of his god powers. He voluntarily gave them up because he realized Reed could do more good with them. In return, Reed gave Doom his scarless face back. The experience made Doom finally realize villainy isn’t his calling...heroism is.

It’s not as bad as the Dems that donated to rebuild a republican campaign office. But it’s still a stupid waste of donations.

Agents of Shield, Luke Cage.

Eh, if what you liked about them is that they were faster, then I suspect they wouldn’t really hit with me—a huge part of why I liked Pacific Rim’s mech fights so much is precisely that they felt, well, slow and heavy.

... I’m confused. The point is that it’s shitty that they took the woman lead from the last film and fridged her for the sake of a dude’s character arc. None of that contradicts with what you’re saying—the fact that they gave Mako a small supporting role and killed her off to motivate a dude, giving not one shit about…

And people wonder why Trump won.

What’s your point? They wrote that plot.

I think you’re ascribing to it the power of agency, like sarcasm and met-snark are shaping society, and I see it more as a reaction by those of us who are (or feel) relatively powerless to change those circumstances.

This is admittedly an overreaction, but thinking about the creativity, intensity and energy that gets invested into these kind of ironic thought-neighbourhoods kind of scares me. I was a sardonic Gen-Xer who thought sarcasm was a great replacement for a personality and wit. I used to think post-modernism was great for…