I still have to applaud the linguistic shift from “democratic cities” to “democrat cities”. They really know how to work the language. I still remember when Frank Lutz changed “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”. Slow clap for the end of democracy. Maybe they’ll rename “fascism” something like “correctivism”. Staying…

Never gonna get a canal job with that attitude, friend. 

1. You’re looking for something that isn’t there.

2. You missed the part where this completely wipes San Francisco off the map.

I won’t ever own one but we rented a Wrangler on the big island in HI, immediately took the doors and roof off, and took it into the lava fields. What a riot. I will never forget the sound of my kiddos giggling uncontrollably in the back as we bounced our way to the beach. They are great when used for the intended…

The local news definitely covered Superman’s death when I was a kid. It was a rare occasion when comic books crossed into mainstream culture because of surprise rather than moral outrage.

I’m still waiting for a multiverse crossover event, the Council of Bens, where every martyred Spider-relative comes together in an afterlife nexus to dispense folksy wisdom from beyond the grave.

it was basically the reason anyone my age started collecting comics. i started with the death of superman, ended with the spider-man clone saga.

It’s easy to go the “Fuck you” approach when you’re Batista’s size.

It is obvious that Strange went for the one timeline where the only person on Titan that would die was the one who annoyed him earlier in the movie by being the exact same character type right down to the elaborate facial hair.

To be fair, he didn’t exactly ‘defeat’ Dormammu so much as pull a universal equivalent of turning off the heater during winter to get unwanted houseguests to leave. MCU Strange isn’t exactly ‘powerful’ so much as he’s crafty.

I kind of meant it as a joke and then got more into the idea. Lex should be menacing as well as smart, and I think DB can pull that off.

Jesus, it is startling how much sense that makes. Bautista totally has the stillness and contemplativeness to make that work.

Strange saw all possibilities. You have to go with the narrative logic that if Strange had forewarned Quill or anyone else, it would not have worked out and blown the one shot. Or if had used the time stone trick like he did on Dormammu, Thanos would have been able to get out of it using the other stones.

If Gunn is truly thinking of pinching some Guardians for DC films, then I nominate Bautista for Lex Luthor.

“The guy who shot his dad thirty times approximately 0.00005 seconds after learning he killed his mom would absolutely not have punched Thanos in the face after slowly considering the possibility that he killed the woman he loved.”

Ah yes, Keven Fiege, Kevin Feige’s non-union equivalent.

On the other hand, these characters had the most comic potential when they DID interact with others.

The first meeting of the Guardians and Strange/Stark/Spidey in Infinity War are hilarious. And Nebula’s friendships with Stark and Rhodey are cool.

Some comic crossovers are as natural as peanut butter and chocolate…

The films, like the books, were really kind of a diminishing returns kind of thing. By the end they felt like real slogs. Didn’t read the prequel because I assumed it was probably further down that path. Was it any good or just more of the same? 

I think they dropped the ball on both Britta and Shirley.

Oh Britta’s in this?