See, I thought he had lots of motivations to pick from, and I would have preferred if that had just developed one. Was he mad that he was a soldier told to come home and live at peace? Was he trying to live forever? Did his brain just get too lizard-ified? We may never know. RIP yet another awesomely named Idris Elba…

Best indie of the summer was “Hunt For the Wilderpeople”, directed by Taika Waititi. Civil War was so fun. Ghostbusters and Star Trek were both perfect summer popcorn movies. X-Men Apocalypse was so awful, I can’t even. At least the DC movies were spectacularly bad. X-Men wasn’t spectacularly anything. The worst crime…

When Marvel first announced they were going into the TV game, I had three ideas for shows I thought they should do. The first was Power Man and Iron Fist, who are my favorite superheroes but also have a power level and tone well suited for TV. The second was an Agents of SHIELD-like show, but my idea featured more…

FWIW, it was one with like, Azrael (but not really much like Azrael at all) and his family had beef with this other family because someone raped someone’s daughter, and there was a very gory hand-getting-chopped-off moment. I think I understand what I’ve been missing.

But like, clearly not the same sweater, because those two actresses are not the same size, but both sweaters seem to fit?? So like, she aged up but to make herself more comfortable she went out and bought her comfort sweater?

Time to earn my username.

Personally, my distaste for Millar has become too much to be objective about anything he writes. Sometimes I get tricked into reading his stuff and I like it (Jupiter’s Legacy, Circle) and I think he has on occasion stumbled his way into brilliance (Red Son) or just unleashed insane imaginative shit (Old Man Logan)…

Fraction’s F4 was OK, he had some decent ideas but Bagley’s art was a bad match (he CANNOT draw young kids; Franklin and Valeria looked like geriatric monster midgets). FF on the other hand is on all-time classic. It’s funny and heartwarming (it’s ya girl Tong!), tragic (everything involving Scott Lang),a great…

More sense is relative to what we got. It would have made the most sense if Reed had just invented the spacecraft/portal and that Ben was an army pilot there to fly it. Or just do the Ultimate version and have Reed and Doom and Sue invent the portal and Johnny and Ben are there to support their sister/best friend when…

I don’t know where the window closes on “anymore” for you but Jonathan Hickman’s run on F4 (and FF, the Future Foundation, from 2009-2012) is IMHO the best Fantastic Four comics ever. Maybe not as groundbreaking as Lee/Kirby or Byrne, but just superlative superhero storytelling, and containing my all time favorite…

And I would consider Walking Dead to be amongst his most typical scores!

If we’re just talking good composers who deserve a shot at the big time: Bear McCreary. That dude is an actual genius. It takes a special sort of talent to not only do your job well, but to explain it insightfully to a layperson, which is exactly what he does on his blog. His recent work on Black Sails and 10…

As requested: https://open.spotify.com/user/122866382…

I’ve had a Spotify playlist for Doctor Strange from 5 or so years ago, and it’s mostly filled with Uriah Heep. Imagine Dormammu’s first appearance, rising from the Dark Flames as Rainbow Demon plays.

Speaking as the world’s #1 Johnny Williams fanboy (which is how he was credited in his earliest works going back to the original Lost in Space!!)... you’re pretty much right. I’ve listened to TFA soundtrack 900 times and there are some really cool ideas in there, but it doesn’t compare to episodes I-VI.

Came here to rep Lady Stilt-Man, but I can see my work was already done for me. Well done!

The other thing to do is make these surprise secret issues feel like more bang for your buck. Remember the last issue of Fables? It was really the last trade paperback, all new and dropping all at once on Wednesday... and they sold it for the price of one issue! I hadn’t read Fables in years and I got pretty stoked…

OK, we (the comic book fandom) have been having this conversation for years but:

Please note that I have not (yet) seen James Cameron’s film Avatar in theaters or at home. What I know from the movie is sort of my understanding through cultural osmosis.

Donny Yen is clearly the Cool One, but Diego Luna is The One I Want to Bang.