It’s well known that Surfer was Lee’s personal favorite character.  He felt a deep affinity for him.

Yeah, it’s all really complicated, despite what all the loudmouths who weren’t there would tell you.

Nothing that is prominently featured in a bloody mary can be bad.

‘absence of celery where you live’??

Kang thinks there’s too much Lee-bashing but shouldn’t Galactus really count as solely Kirby’s character? I fucking love Galactus but his appeal is approximately 100% due to his insane fucking costume design.  

OH no. Kang tried that with Ditko. Trust me, the Randverse is... not that much fun.

Larry Indiana, will you die so we can lovingly eulogize you? That was wonderful.

Jack Kirby is a god. He created an entire visual language almost single-handedly. He is untouchable. He was fucked out of his original art and never got proper credit, or the appropriate payday, for the pop-cultural behemoth for which he was one of the two or three principal architects. It is a shame and a tragedy…

Well #1 has got to be Kang. Kang’s gotta Kang!

Look, it’s played to death, but no musical phrasing is more devastating than:

Doesn’t Alfred tell him about the letter because he’s changed his mind about supporting Bruce’s vigilantism? And I seem to remember Alfred resigning tearfully (I remember this because it was one of the worst scenes in the movie, watching poor Micheal Caine getting all weepy and gnashing his funny giant teeth while…

He’s terrific, except that his characterization in the third film is completely mucked up— (By the end of TDK he’s become Batman’s Dick Cheney, and the very next movie he’s somehow so upset about Bruce doing Batman stuff that he just up and quits???????)

Is it really ‘fridging’ if the character being motivated is the VILLAIN? I recognize that signalling ‘wokeness’ is now supposed to be our main responsibility as culture consumers, but, uh, does this mean that the death of a female character can never ever ever be a motivating factor for a male character under any…

Honestly, Dex driving around with the frozen corpse of Julie was one of the things that worked best for me. Her wide-open eyes were disturbing and Dex’s reaction felt authentically perverse. It was legitimately fucked up, rather than just sophomoric, which is how most of the ‘darkness’ on the show plays.

This is such a weird review. Like, Kang would definitely not be as kind to this show through episodes 1-12 as Caroline has been... the whole enterprise is much more of a C+ in my book... But to then give THIS episode such a negative review? Why? Quality-wise, it’s completely consistent with the rest of the show. …

Kang was laughing SO HARD when Karen came barging into Matt’s loft, all enraged like HEY MATT HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL ME YOU’RE STILL ALIVE?

To be fair to Caroline, the show’s tone has a lot to do with it. Personally, I wish the show would stop pretending it has anything to say about journalism or the political system (Foggy’s gonna run a competitive WRITE-IN campaign to become the Manhattan D.A.!!) and would just lean into the comic-bookyness a bit more.…

THAT was Julie on the security cam footage getting offed?? Wow that was a bad storytelling choice, I didn’t realize she was dead until I read this review several episodes later. I guess that also explains why ‘she’ blocked Dex. Kang thought he had missed a scene where he creeped her out again.

Yeah, this episode is worryingly heavy on all the weakest parts of ‘Daredevil’. Karen, Karen, Karen, and contrived monologues about existential angst that just feel like a bunch of high school dramatics.

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