People really understate this, but the right wing smear campaign against Gunn has got to be one of the biggest fuckups in the history of the already momentously stupid “culture wars.”

Was anyone but the most diehard Marvel fan expecting his Starlord to be faithful to the comics?

Looks like William Hughes’ worst nightmare is about to come true: an era where Hollywood’s next big thing is video game movies that are actually accurate to the source material, rather than cookie-cutter superhero movies that increasingly scrape the bottom of the IP barrel! What if he ends up not getting an “El…

They weren’t tricked. They wanted it made as well. Hollywood is run by a secret cabal of Honey Humpers, as bee fetishists call themselves.

Yes, he says, Star-Lord would have killed Gamora if she asked him to

Shrek showed us that there are good ways to crib from Disney. Shark Tale showed us that there are very bad ways to crib from Disney.

Because the comics and movies are entirely different but the mcu characters are the same characters in different movies? Your comment makes no sense.

That sentence basically removed any kind of credibility Gharavi had.

I used to like Mitch Hedberg.

This is the AV Club, not The Blaze.

While it is grasping bullshit to claim that Cleopatra was black, Ancient Egypt did have a Nubian dynasty which has much stronger reason to be viewed as ‘black’ in the modern sense. If any African-American wants to show black African Egyptian rulers then that’s the route to take.

If you meet actual Egyptians from Egypt, and not just Americans with lots of opinions about what the rest of the world will like, they are all very clear on this issue and very tired of being drawn into what is, essentially, a political argument made by some African-Americans.

They, and north Africans generally, are an…

“Cleopatra was Greek!” Oh, Lawd! Why would that be a good thing to you, Amir? You’re Egyptian.”

I hate everyone involved in this

These are not mutually exclusive concepts. Creators have a lot more freedom now because there are so many more possible outlets that can distribute their work. But “more freedom” does not mean “unlimited freedom in every sense.”

“one of the most iconic vehicles in the Star Wars universe, has finally gotten the Ultimate Collector Series treatment”

X-Wing hs finally gotten the UCS treatment? It’s the 3rd time it’s gotten the UCS treatment. If your gonna run ads disguised as columns keep the facts straight. 

I’m still waiting on a Peter Pan story that accepts that the guy is basically an evil cult leader. He kidnaps children and convinces them that being an adult is bad. It’s not! Honestly, this whole trope of “being a child is great and it is a tragedy that kids have to grow up” needs to die.

The difference in the parents who named their kids Lucy vs. Coriolanus. ffs...

She piloted the saucer section to a safe landing, saving pretty much everyone aboard, including the core bridge crew, who in the Picard series finale literally saved humanity and the Federation.

Fixed that for you.