I’m not defending DC, for the record. (I started by saying that he’s right about Geoff Johns.) And Moore has done some brilliant work. But I often feel that he’s overrated, both by himself and his fans, and there’s a lot wrong with comics storytelling as a whole that comes from people who read Watchmen, took the wrong…

Moore isn’t wrong about Johns, but maybe the guy who built an entire franchise out of taking other peoples’ public domain characters and making them fuck needs to get off his high horse.

It has a rough start, like a lot of shows. Keep going. It hits its stride soon enough.

Not gonna deny, I like some of their quirkier, more complicated flavors, but I had this one the first time around and I wasn’t terribly impressed.

Not gonna lie, you had me with the headline there. I was gonna grit my teeth and read the hot take I was dreading just to give you the benefit of the doubt. Glad I did, though. Thanks for that.

This is SUPER conveniently timed to allow him to have to call off from the next debate without having to seem like he’s backing down or refusing to participate. If he ends up getting through this with only mild symptom, I’ll have some serious suspicion that this may be fake. (Like 1% suspicion. I know other people all…

Yes, this. I saw it as a teenager when it came out, and this definitely captures the mood in my local theater.

I was 15 when this came out in theaters, and I remember seeing it opening day. I remember how they actually bumped up the release by a day or two at the last minute because they were anticipating so many people wanting to see it opening weekend. I still remember just being blown away as a kid by the ships, the scale…

Eventually Sam Jackson will hang up the eyepatch and they’ll reveal that Fury has a son -- also named Nick Fury, played by Hasslehoff -- and pass the role onto him.

I will always have a special place in my heart for the opening theme to the Conan cartoon. Also, IIRC, wasn’t it from an era where it was basically standard operating procedure to have every action cartoon opening sequence spell out the premise of the show in exhausting detail?

That’s more than fair, and I wholeheartedly agree about his ability to play in that tension. I was actually thinking, when I rewatched the sketch before making my comment, that Ferrell with his current level of experience would probably get a lot more out of it. I think that’s a big part of why my favorite performance…

That’s a solid point, usually SNL sketches (especially in that era, IIRC) get to the joke in the first 20 seconds and then just hammer you with it over and over.

“Weekend speedball binge” also describes the picture attached to the article.

I don’t eat at them often, but I have kind of a soft spot in my heart for these places. My parents had raised me to order my steaks well done (or, if I were feeling adventurous, medium well). And it was someone screwing up a steak order at one (it was either a Bonanza or a USA Steak Buffet) that corrected their…

In my case, it’s because about half the time the rain randomly changes intensity or just stops and starts, and I hate turning it on and off again as I’d go. I’d rather put up with it for a minute, get to the next dry bit, and just hit the ‘mist’ button once.

Well, he apparently shared all this with Breitbart of all places, so that’s a hint as to how little effort it probably takes to rationalize it.

Well, first off, these companies become behemoths by not spending more than they have to. Which is probably why they’re using an alternate version of the game that already exists. But I was also referring to how, in general (not just in this case), a lot of people think that voice acting in general is cheap and that…

Yeah, people don’t get how expensive it can actually be to hire professional voice talent. I’ve seen the standard pay scale, and it ain’t cheap. (And rightfully so -- some voice actors have done permanent damage to their throats literally spending hours recording grunts and screams of pain, let alone dialogue.)

Actually, there’s a theory we’re going to get the High Evolutionary in Guardians 3, which means Bova’s a possibility. (Wanda and Pietro were born in his castle and Bova was one of his creations.)

I’d suspected for a little while that William and Christina were one and the same. There was that moment in the previous episode where the cops are following Christina, she vanishes into the house and William comes out afterwards, and something for me just clicked — we’d never seen the two of them in the same place at…