I misread "Lance Bangs" as "Lance Bass" and was just so, so confused.

I came to the situation backwards, being a comics nerd who saw Lord of the Rings in the theater and being distracted that the Big Bad was named after this dumb X-Men pterodactyl. I'd just assumed "Sauron" just came from the fact that the comic character was a dinoSAUR who was SOARIN' because he could fly. Comic…

As a pre-teen, I tried to dream up the sequel to X-Men Legends III I was desperate to have. But who could the X-Men fight that hadn't already been the focus of the first games? My adolescent mind settled on all the robots and cyborgs the X-Men fight (they fight a lot of robots and cyborgs), with humanity and mutant…

Playing as Dazzler in that arcade game made me gay. It's great!

The arcade game is mentioned, but the article discounts it from being the best from not having the "depth of authenticity" of X-Men Apocalypse. Or whatever.

It was my introduction into the X-Men, and the reason why as a kid I thought Dazzler was an essential X-Man but didn't know who Jean Grey was.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 recently got released for PS4 on the Playstation store.

Love the Russian voice over in the last trailer. Such a good, eerie touch.

I think I was too young for Transmet when it was out, and I've had no real interest in checking it out. Stormwatch, the Authority, and Planetary are the books the solidified me as a comic fan when I was in middle school and high school, which is why I was so disappointed by Ellis having Wolverine spout such ignorance…

I wish that Marvel would release these as eight or even ten episodes seasons. They all inevitably lose momentum and tread water in the middle.

I was concerned about how they would fit a character like Iron Fist into the (relatively) grounded Netflix family of Marvel shows, but this trailer looks like they pulled it off. I do hope they don't completely tone down the fantastical elements, like the Immortal Weapons.

There are lots of non-martial arts East Asian characters, but they mostly embody other Asian stereotypes like being super smart like Amadeus Cho and Hiro Takachiho from Big Hero Six.

Also Marvel has Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur by Amy Reeder, World of Wakanda by Roxanne Gay (and Ta-Nehisi Coates), America by Gabby Rivera, and Gamora by Nicole Perlman. So that's nine series written by women vs. ten series by men, which isn't ideal, but it's absolutely progress. Hell, Marvel having 19 books starring…

Having read Ellis's super racist take on the continent of Africa in Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis (using Wolverine as his mouthpiece), I'd prefer if he mostly only ever wrote about old, drunk British dudes from the point of view of old, drunk British dudes.

Buffy absolutely benefited from having women like Marti Noxon and Jane Espenson in the writer's room, and even then the show still had problems.

Also Marvel has Gamora by Nicole Perlman, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur by Amy Reeder, and World of Wakanda by Roxanne Gay (and Ta-Nehisi Coates), books about women written by women. But I think four books written by women compared to the ten books about women written by men is not great, especially if books like the…

Later on in the New 52, Grayson was a great book, probably my favorite Dick Grayson run ever. But a handful of good books out of dozens doesn't mean the New 52 was a creative success.

The Santa Ana Winds guy can get it, correct? In real life his upper body is covered in tattoos and he is best friends with White Josh.

Good catch! He was also an annoying know-it-all on Dawson's Creek

His sister also didn't seem to have a church wedding last season.