Counterpoint: There is no superhero fatigue...these shows are just filling the need for MORE superheroes.

If we’re talking burnout, I’m not sure we’ll see it with superheroes in the same way we saw it with, say, zombies, simply because there are so many different ways you can present superheroes and super-adjacent stories, whereas the vast majority of zombie media does the same thing over and over again.

Seconded. Joelle’s reviews are outstanding. They’re as good as anything that the AV Club put out in its prime.

Joelle isn’t a seamstress, she’s a DESIGNER and you can’t rush her process

Superman is the easiest target to parody, both due to his long-lived ubiquity and his easy to subvert moral code, but it also demonstrates a big problem with how DC understands it’s characters. Marvel has the flawed, sometimes street-level take on superheroes. DC has the archetypes -the modern myth version of…

I’d argue that the consistent quality and popularity of the Marvel characters makes them hard to parody well, whereas DC’s repeated, schizophrenic attempts to find the right tone makes them far easier targets.

Joelle,

Yeah, I don’t understand the hate. If you want change, staying with the all white ownership isn’t really going to do anything. If you get someone on your side that is an owner, well that can make progress. And I don’t see Eric Reid turning down those NFL checks either...

The hypocrisy of all of this is the fact Colin took a buyout, didnt tell us the specifics, and there was NO public backlash. Now we are complaining about Jayz trying to influence from the inside? Colin didnt care to fight for anything until he had a temper tantrum about not being played. All of a sudden he cares about…

I’m a little bit conflicted about this. While I agree this whole thing is a bad look for Jay-Z, I find it hard to side with either Eric Reid or Kaepernick completely.

Jay previously owned a share of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, in which he purchased a $1 million stake in 2004, but even that deal was controversial in that many believe it sped up the hyper-gentrification tearing up his beloved, native Brooklyn.

I don’t get the hate. He’s been a quiet and effective advocate for change. He was anonymously bailing out people in Ferguson and Baltimore, and has always advocated for Black ownership and causes. He isn’t a social Republican. He is for self help and improvement and that shows in everything he and Bey do.

I was so burned out on Tarantino / Pulp Fiction wannabes that I probably didn’t watch that movie for ten years. I then randomly caught a TV showing, and was promptly reminded why everyone and his brother was trying to imitate it. It really is more or less perfection but gets dragged down reputationally by the rest of…

You could make an identical argument about every story on Deadspin as they relate to people who kind of watch sports but don’t really care about it.

There will be a lot of takes like these that not-so-subtly demean the very idea that we ought to give a damn about “Undies Man and Mech Genius.” And that’s fine. I’m not gonna sit here and claim that Endgame is fucking Tolstoy.

I have however generally enjoyed the past decade or so of entertainment these films have…

In all seriousness, you’re complaining because the characters deal with their personal baggage?

I am truly sad that anyone can be shallow enough to find this drek entertaining.

I was hoping it would have been “Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain...” since it’s a rare finale that shows the hero using his wits and ingenuity to defeat an opponent, rather than their power/strength/skill.

Hey, Seinfeld made Iron Man a household name back in 1997:

This illegitimate motherfucker just physically threatened the majority of Americans that disapprove of him.