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Last season was… eh, okay. I hope the remaining seasons aren't just coma dreams. Adam Reed has the attention span of a gnat.

The internet is where Poe's Law goes to die.

So let's just throw away Bill Maher after agreeing with him for so long because we don't ALWAYS agree with EVERYTHING he says? Nuance is dead.

B-b-ut where else will I see posts about how The Force Awakens is just Episode IV with a Mary Sue? Oh wait, EVERYWHERE.

Nobody's ever been amused by Stephen Baldwin. Except being amused that he ever had a career. But that's less amusement and more pity on humanity.

I remember when Squabbles was Poet.

Tim and Eric are the two least funny people that have ever existed.

Heroes in a half shell, turtle power!

Yes, yes, I've read Pre-Crisis Superman books with Luthor in them. And his depiction was that of evil genius mad scientist, yes, but there were writers that wrote him a lot better than generic smarmy con man Lex of the movies.

It depended on the writer. Elliot S. Maggin's Luthor was sharp and lethal.

Well, I don't like much of the Silver Age Superman, but I think Johns lends a more modern storytelling approach to it which lends it more weight. I didn't give a single damn about the Legion of Superheroes until Johns used them.

Superman II is a comedy with a bad ending. No, two bad endings.

There's so little tension in those movies and most of it is played off so comically and casual it's like it has no significance whatsoever. It takes too long for Superman to even show up as Superman in the first movie and Lex Luthor is more comic relief than villain. It's like Mario Puzo and Donner had never read a

I really liked it, but sometimes it felt like more of a checklist than a story on its own. Mark Waid's Superman: Birthright is usually given more credit for being an ongoing narrative, though personally I think that one's overrated and prefer Geoff Johns' Secret Origin, even with its puppy love for the Donner films.

There was a new trade paperback put out not that long ago.

Eh, I always felt like the Krypton bit went on too long (and in MoS, as well… JUST DIE already, Jor-El… you have one purpose in the Superman mythos, to EXPLODE). But Reeve did look good in the suit and the Williams theme is still amazing.

I actually like Man of Steel. I have a copy on Blu-Ray. I even think it's better than the Donner movies, which were plot-starved, especially that first one (in the climax, Superman fights a swimming pool and loses). MoS has its issues, sure, but it's clearly the winner of best live-action Superman movie. But really,

There are tons of great DC villains. It's just that most of Superman's villains are better for single issues of comics, as most of them were intended to be (though so were Batman's at first). Remember that many superhero comics were anthologies when they started, with several stories per issue, often with pretty

That's how it was in Post-Crisis Superman's Man of Steel mini-series, Superman shows up in Gotham ostensibly to bring Batman in for being a vigilante (weird, because Superman is a vigilante). Batman claims that he has a bomb on an innocent person in the city that he'll set off if he's taken in, which makes Superman

No, just that it's odd that the only heroes who are good at martial arts are non-Asians, creating the impression that, after the heroes have defeated the evil guys, that Asians just aren't as good at their own culture as outsiders.