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I loved the new cast, but the way they wrote Jean was a (ironically characteristic) complete misinterpretation of the character.

Oh same! And the costumes are picture perfect.

All of this is the coolest thing I have ever heard. Are y’all reading Valiant? You’ve got to get on that! And Livewire has some of the best potential of any Superhero who hasn’t had their own series yet.

It’s crazy how you can take something that’s anathema to what a lot of fans say they want, but then win them over with the sheer power of quality.

This looks awesome, Manifold is one of my favorite underrated heroes, and this team totally rocks.

That being said, I hope big two comics start hiring more actual comic book people. Coates and Roxanne Gay and Yona Harvey are all awesome, but there are plenty of black creators who are getting passed over in favor of…

Because of their ubiquity or because of how much thought Hans Zimmer put into them?

The Victoria one always gets me. She turns her back on you, but then glances back, unable to resist checking out your reaction. It’s awesome.

Cable (the times I have liked him) is more than just a series of facts that make up a backstory. He has characterization, specifically that he’s the straight man to Deadpool’s wacky antics. It’s not like the first Deadpool movie had to tell you about Colossus saving his sister from a tractor, or that his sister…

Yeah, I’m mostly being a detractor here, but I have great affection for The Great One. I read comics from X-Men #1 by Claremont and Lee until Onslaught happened. Bendis brought me back into comics when I discovered Ultimate Spider-Man in college. Alias is one of my all time faves. This iteration of the Defenders is a…

When I start researching for my tell all book, I promise to interview you Alliterator. “Where were you when Torso was published?” those kinds of questions.

I met Bendis at a con once. He’s the most lovely, affable dad I’ve ever met. My friend was shy, and asked me to ask Bendis a question about Emma Frost. I think I…

The original New Avengers (right through Dark Avengers) did. I attribute that to Bendis having more to prove and less on his plate. The second volume (the one where Ben Grimm was on the team and Luke Cage led it from the mansion) was a bunch of pancake eating nonsense. Possibly my least favorite Bendis book of all…

I think you’re identifying the real x factor here. It’s been said that Bendis functions best when he does street-level stories, but I think it has more to do with team books vs solo books. Iron Man worked because Bendis can’t really handle more than one voice per book which is why Gamora, Ben Grimm, Miles Morales,…

I grew up on Peter David. I was reading X-Factor in the 90s. The dude wrote for Young Justice. I could not be a bigger fan but... I was at the NYCC panel where he went on a scary racist rant (against the Romani people) and... it’s really soured me towards checking out his new work.

I know it’s the longest of shots, but I’m still really holding out hope that Ezra Bridger=Snoke. It’s just one of those theories that makes so much overwhelming sense (like R+L=J or the timeline/ Westworld thing) that it has to be true.

I’ve got many opinions, which could be discussed at length but the tl;dr is:

My buddy can’t make it through any of these movies because he always hears it as “lichens”. He refuses to be intimidated but upjumped algae.

I need to write a very long thinkpiece unpacking these ideas, but a few thoughts:

Have you read Cap after the movies? The new run is good, the part that got media attention is a small part of the larger story, and the actual message (that Nazis aren’t nebulous enemies of the past but are in fact scary contemporary villains who use lies to rewrite our history) is spot on. Spencer’s most vociferous…