I’m hoping they were including him to set up a future sequel, because I really like the character in the comics, even though he felt kinda superfluous in this first one.

Streets of RAGE?

I want a crossover between Danny the Street and Billy on the Street.

If you’re a Stephen King fan, The Fireman will feel familiar but different. If you can do comics, Locke & Key is up there for me with Sandman, Saga, Y: The Last Man, and Wicked + Divine. If you hate happiness and want dreadfully dreary gorgeous goth poetry as a story, you can try Horns. It’s not for everyone.

Love The Fireman. It’s his strongest novel for sure. My girlfriend and I, who are avid Stephen King fans, call it “Good The Stand.”

NOS4A2 is probably my 4th or 5th favorite Joe Hill book, but that show looks dope and Zachary Quinto is genius casting.

That is all crazy. I’m no Loxodontologist (which the Google tells me is what you would call an Elephant scientist) but it’s clear that there’s something wrong with CGI Dumbo’s eyes. They’re expressive like human eyes, but I think they’re positioned more like dog or wolf eyes, and that is FREAKY.

This theory is really mechanically elegant, weaving together plot points, imagery, and lots of subtle little bits of the movie- but I feel like it undermines the movie thematically.

It has haunted me every poster and trailer I have seen.

I don’t like that the elephant has front-facing eyes. A predator’s eyes. Elephants are supposed to be herbivores. No wonder everyone is freaked out by this mutant creature. The elephants are evolving into killers.

Though in current Hulk comics, it turns out that Hulk is technically some kind of demonic entity. (Current Hulk comics rule).

In current Uncanny, Magik is infected with the Techno Organic virus. Looks like it progresses, a lot.

Don’t know what’s up with baby!Havok, but red Nightcrawler is his dad Azazel, seen in the First Class movie and in the first arc of Amazing X-Men. In the current Uncanny X-Men series, Magik has been infected with the T-O virus (the same thing that gives Cable his robot arm). It looks like the virus progresses. A lot.

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Still prefer that trend to sequels that have the titles of the original, because we hoped you’d forget but not really.

There’s also a totally different relationship between consumers and ads. I still remember trailers for Donkey Kong and Mortal Kombat in the 90s that all featured totally radical kids way more than game footage. Ads used to sell an idea, a tone, a brand.

What’s baffling to me is how so much of the promise of Anthem was in the negative. Bioware fans (whatever that means anymore) would ask a question about the game, and the answer would be “no, but...” Like, “are there going to be romances in the game?” “no but, well realized characters, platonic relationships...” “is…

All true, but I think the surface-level racism really supports the high concept esoteric stuff. It’s the kind of thing I wouldn’t want to support by giving him money, but he’s dead so it’s interesting to study.

See, what’s incredible to me is that I think the racism is a crucial part of Lovecraft’s horror. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this deeply xenophobic shut-in wrote stories about unknowable terrors; creatures that would melt you mind if you even tried to consider them.

This is the adaptation in the works I’m most excited for! It’s just a perfect story for the moment: a historical Lovecraftian story used as a metaphor for contemporary race problems that makes Lovecraft’s racism the center of the horror.