I think you’re totally right but for me at least, that’s the criticism. 13 didn’t achieve the illusion of openness and choice that other series entries did. And the gameplay didn’t mechanically get that urgency across.

A star isn’t enough, I need to give you greater recognition.

This is the first Pokemon game I’ve played (I missed Sun/Moon) that really feels like it transports you to a new place. Like, if I really went to the UK, I’d see deer and boars and the like, but they’d look different from the deer and boars of the American Midwest (where I live). And there would be some unique animals…

Nope, this is the original Pyro. He talks about how he was one of the first mutants they experimented with resurrecting, because no one really cares about him.

Awesome! You won’t find a bigger fan of Gillen, Aaron, or Pak than me, but for my money Soule has been the best and most consistent voice in the Star Wars comics. I’m positive he’s the right guy for the job.

Jeph Loeb is one of my least favorite writers ever to pen comics.

This was always a thing that Mass Effect was really good about, and frankly Star Wars could take some pointers. ME went to great lengths to establish the cultural stereotype of each species, and then every character was defined by how they defied that stereotype.

When I saw that page I was like, “Surely my mind is in the gutter, and no one will look too closely at that floorplan.” One day later... everyone believes in mutant free love.

Weird take: there was a not very good video game series Way of the Samurai, and this was (to me) always the promise of it. The games were usually short, but extremely dense, with lots of possibilities and endings. You would play the same two hours of story over and over, changing small things, aligning with different…

Wow, I’ve asked myself “Why hasn’t Susanna Clarke written a second novel?” hundreds of times in the last decade. Sorry to hear that she is in poor health, but beyond stoked that she’s putting together a second novel. Few people can just rock out an undisputed fantasy classic on their first go. She’s clearly a really…

Osric Chau is a certifiable cutie and it’s past time we got Ryan Choi in the Arrowverse! I’m suddenly much more open to a big cast shakeup on Legends.

There’s 100% a discussion to be had on the movie’s message, themes, and values, but I think the way the discussion keeps getting framed is doing it a disservice. I feel like we’ve pretty thoroughly debunked the idea that violent movies cause violence. But that’s a more simplistic and extreme version of the underlying…

Uh, they’ve never tried that before; it sounds painful.

I hope we get some pushback on Sinister’s status as a “mutant.” His X-Gene was stolen... from Thunderbird no less! Wanda gets called a pretender, but Sinister is allowed on Krakoa? I want some spirited debate between the hardliners and the mutant progressives.

And the whole ritual is about proving that you did not do that very thing. So the moment someone answers the question wrong is gonna be a doozy. Storm saying, “This is NOT my brother! Who... who are you!?” And then they presumably say something... Sinister!

Going into this, I was worried it would be too similar to earlier versions of the idea, but Krakoa is far reaching in a way Utopia never was. The moment I realized things were different was when the flowers were introduced in issue #1. Utopia never made a convincing case that it was a sovereign nation- it always felt…

Different writers and characters have rationalized it differently over the years, and I think that’s a great discussion to have.

I get the move away from painted-on bodysuits for superheroes, but the Spider-Woman costume really is a good design. I think the perfect compromise would be her recent “t-shirt and jacket” look with the mask. The sunglasses always look goofy to me.

MORE painfully 90s or I want nothing to do with it!

The one time they met (in season one), Whiterose told Elliot that they would never meet face to face again. That struck me as more than just posturing. Seems important.