He's not exactly wrong.

Another prequel? No thanks.

To all the naysayer and "it looks meh" commenters on this post, Rick has an important announcement.

Hi JJ! I just watched your remake/mashup of E.T. and Cloverfield. It was....stupid.

Thanks for that! That answers the question I had about whether or not they changed the emotional thrust of Gwen's death. It sounds like they changed it from the original comics where Peter is directly responsible for Gwen's death by his webbing and the force snapping her neck (referenced and allude to in the current Su…

What do you mean "after Green Goblin intervened"? What exactly happened step by step? And yes, I want full spoilers.

*Redbox Bluray Rental Must See. Fixed that for ya.

The fact that you even need to seriously respond to ideas that it is an alien spaceship just makes me depressed about the rest of humanity's capacity for rational thought.

Considering that Buck Rogers has inspired/been ripped off by multiple scifi series/movies over the last several decades, making a big-budget movie now would turn out exactly like John Carter - people would say "haven't I already seen this before?"

You haven't watched it so you are not qualified to judge its scientific accuracy. So shut your gob.

Explain.

Because its good. Also, some slight supernatural "Yellow King" weirdness to it even if the supernatural elements turn out to be more mundane.

It doesn't necessarily need to be one or the other. Migration by land AND by sea by different groups over the course of several hundred or several thousand years is perfectly possible and it would make sense to see evidence for both.

I could deal with (even love) all of that if it weren't for the extreme right wing politics.

This is the joke I clicked on the article to find. It will be made many more times.

The true answer is: Science + Pot. Which is infinitely better.

How is that a bad thing exactly?!

No. Not at all.