It's a dark horse, but I think Duncan Regehr's performance in Monster Squad is the most charismatic and threatening the count has ever been, talking cheerfully to his hostages and casually attempting to murder children.

This is an incredibly well researched article, but some of the sentence structure makes me cringe. for example, "And in my opinion a MUCH better here too, in my opinion." Great topic, would read more from the same author, probably just needed one more read through.

Totally worth it just to know that Batman is the son of Sadie Doyle and Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars. It explains so much.

Who: The Venusian Carrot, It Conquered the World

Who: Eros, alien commander from Plan Nine From Outer Space.

Who: Andre Delambre, the Fly

Who: Jigsaw, the Saw killer.

Heck, Marvel could go the Fred Perry route and have an entire issue focusing on Hawkeye having explicit sex with Spider-Woman. Have the split buttshots inside and a sexy but more tasteful cover I don't mind walking kids past with a big "Mature Audiences" label on it. There's a middle ground to the spectrum.

I don't expect creators to sanitize their work. I have issues with the companies who design advertising campaigns. I can take my kids to the Archie aisle, but along the way they'll be bombarded by posters of questionable body images and sexuality. If it's a Walking Dead poster, fine. That's media's not for them yet.…

I'm specifically talking about American comics, which is where Spider-Woman fits. There are no variation of body types among the Avengers or JLA. Young Justice is a great example, as it specifically was cancelled because too many women were watching.

I will hold up the cancellation of Young Justice as proof that there are audiences who cannot get what they want, because whole networks don't care about female demographics. "They don't buy toys," was the bad reason Paul Dini revealed.

That Batman-style? Imagine it's almost everyone's style. The Gears of War protagonist to Street Fighter males, every super-hero, every action figure, every male portrayal says "This is a man." We're not talking about a drop in the ocean but the crest of a gigantic series of waves.

It's different once it becomes your life's background radiation, as Amber puts it.

I doubt my mother had agency of her own when my brother and I dragged her to the movies for the first two films. A lot of that cash may be unwilling parents.

I dunno; giving a life sentence of imprisonment in restraints to the Living Mummy is a level of dickishness literally not possible on our planet. Civil War Tony is a stone's throw away from the actual Hitler Tony that cropped up in Exiles.

They've used that effect in the comics since Nixon was in the White House.

I actually like the three pairings you mention as superfluous. I think that if those characters were in the same book, they'd play off of each other pretty well.

As a science teacher, I watched Terra Nova with a "Spot the Inaccuracy Drinking Game." I nearly died.

I'm going to remember this every time I see Jean-Henri Fabre get slammed into a building in Read or Die, and smile.