Starting to cheer the fuck up, isn’t quite there yet. No wise cracking Tudyk yet for sure.

I’m not looking for reasons to hate the film. I want to like it. I really, really don’t think I will, though.

Hell, it’s not io9 giving me reason to hate the film, it’s that every trailer and piece of footage I see looks unrepentantly terrible. I really wanted to like Man of Steel too. I actually thought I would. It…

I’m not sure I agree about DC films. I mean, Nolans Bat-Films were pretty well liked. The Dark Knight especially was extremely well liked. As were the earlier Batman films. DC has a lot of bad films, but if they put out something actually good, people like it. Man of Steel was neither the Superman film we needed or…

... Two? I seem to remember there were only two major villains in that film.

Kansas City here. I don’t expect KC to be treated like LA, or New York, but it’s a fantastic city. Beautiful, home to what I believe is the only World War 1 museum in the entire world, one of the best baseball stadiums in the country, recently home to a team that doesn’t suck, and more fountains than anywhere save…

It’s a massive shame, because it means none of the whole Punisher incident is likely to be mentioned in Civil War, in spite of being extremely relevant.

Which is basically the same thing Daredevil did. He disrupted the status quo, pushed some gangs underground, and at least temporarily removed the Kingpin. Punisher... thinned the ranks of some gangs, inciting them towards violence against each other (particularly ironic, as he’s setting the stage for shootouts just…

I can’t really fit it into the metaphor, but I don’t see much else Matt can do. He can’t do his day job and his night job. He isn’t going to quit his night job. The only real way to make sure he doesn’t screw his friends over anymore is to make it clear that they really need to NOT depend on him.

Sorry but... no. Frank Castle takes down a couple of gangs, in part, while leaving the biggest two actual problems untouched. His actions leave an opening for the DA to get murdered, the only reason he even killed the right target in the end was because Daredevil had to physically stop him from being an idiot about…

Yeah, I gotta agree, as much as everyone talks about the Punisher being an extension of Daredevil, he’s really an independent entity. Which kinda screws up Foggy’s quote. I can’t think of any danger Matt actually created. He didn’t create the Punisher. Or the Hand. Fisk got the Punisher out of prison, sure, but that’s…

It doesn’t account for the size or inescability of the place, but I think the explanation for the skyline is that Hell’s Kitchen got hit real hard by the incident, and all those tall expensive new buildings are just so much rubble now.

That’s kinda what Matt does though. He says he’s done apologizing, and shortly after says Foggy should probably move on without him so he doesn’t keep stepping in rhetorical pet shit.

It was also kinda terrible. But I’m just sick of hearing about how awesome New York/New Yorkers are.

“’This felt like the development of Superman, the character we know and love from the comics,’ said actor Henry Cavill. ‘We’re still not there yet. We are looking at the guy growing up. He’s become this ‘Super Man’ after discovering he was Kal El in the first movie, and now he’s facing his second guy and it’s a tough…

I think the implication is not how faithful the adaptations are, but how the studio feels about them. Marvel is happy to work with the campier side of comic books, and be lighthearted when need be. Warner Bros seems to feel the need to prove that comic books are a totally legitimate thing (which they are) by being…

Because she was dead for a year, and for most of that time the viewers had no idea she was coming back. So for that year, as far as anyone who held up the character as representation knew, they’d just been given the finger. Again. That doesn’t go away just because you brought her back, and killing her in the first…

There isn’t a hero of Watchmen. Rorschach is close to the protagonist roll, and the person who stands up for an ideal at the end of it, so he seems to fit the roll, but he’s still as far from the heroes that Moore was deconstructing as possible. Just like Ozymandias, he has his own philosophy of morality worked out,…

Just because an idea is subversive, or individual doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, any more than an idea being longstanding or traditional means it’s a good idea. Just because people don’t like your subversive idea doesn’t mean they’re all collectivist drones, it just means they hate your idea.