I would even go so far as to say that if I was a comic book writer, I wouldn’t just stop at not ever creating any original characters for the company, but I would also pick and choose which particular story concepts I’d give up and write for the company and which I’d keep in reserve for myself.  There might come a…

As much as I believe that creators should get paid for their work, the reality of the situation is that every writer who goes to work for Marvel or DC, or the publishing companies that publish Star Wars or Star Trek books, or a production studio working on an ongoing television series, or basically any franchise that…

Dwayne Johnson is #19 all time as a leading actor.  Vin Diesel is #26.  You can quibble all you like about where all of that money originates, but objectively both of them are bankable in Hollywood terms.  That’s has been tested in decades-long careers for both men.

I think Taskmaster would have come across as a lot more formidable if the MCU and the Marvel television shows were more integrated.  A character like Taskmaster doesn’t look all that amazing if she only imitates like 3 characters.  But imagine if Iron Fist was actually what he is in the comics ... or Daredevil ... or…

I think it’s possible that it may be setting him up as a ‘bad guy,’ so he can be the one who is the ‘redeemer’ of the Thunderbolts like he was in the comics.  In the comics, it was easier and more plausible to make him the ‘villain who turns the villains who make up the Thunderbolts around’ because Hawkeye in the…

I paid the extra $10 for the premier tier because it was worth it to me to watch Black Widow on the day of release in the comfort of my home theater.  I think it’s a business model.

The show doesn’t seem to know what the TVA is supposed to be. It is so all powerful that its mid-level bureaucrats keep numerous infinity stones in their desk drawers collecting dust, but so incompetent that its elite hunter agents get murdered by gasoline fires in fields.

Most actors who do superhero movies do a daily regimen that rivals a professional athlete’s.

She really doesn’t look like Jessica Drew or Julia Carpenter and Mattie Franklin was a teenager.

Stark Enterprises paid for the land for their buildings, the buildings themselves, all of the support staff, and all of the ancillary costs of the Avengers after SHIELD fell.  The Avengers was pretty much a Stark Enterprises venture after Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  It would have been incredibly chintzy…

If it’s true that the Avengers only got paid in exposure, then Tony Stark was maybe the worst teammate ever.  I mean, if you are a billionaire, sparing $100k a year for the 3-4 teammates who really need it would basically be the equivalent of you or I paying someone 39 cents a year.

It lasted about a year or so.  Web of Spiderman #1, the issue in which Peter gets rid of the alien symbiote suit, came out the same month that Secret Wars #12, the last issue of that mini-series, which lasted a year all told, came out.

To be more accurate, Wanda gave up her fantasy life that she created out of whole cloth where she was imprisoning the entire town of people in a living nightmare.  And she only did that after first refusing to do it when she realized it would destroy her fantasy simulacroms to do so.  Wanda does not exactly come…

“The final scene is classic Marvel. As Wanda leaves Westview after removing the Hex, she walks past the residents who still bear the psychic scars from her breakdown. No one says anything—who would dare?—but their contempt is obvious and understandable. Mutants might not exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (for…

Why does every columnist insist on characterizing Agatha Harkness in the comic books as a villain?  I’ve read a lot of comics over the years and I don’t really remember Agatha Harkness as ever being a villain.  The character in WandaVision is a completely new creation that shares almost nothing with the comic book…

Oh, yeah.  My bad.

Probably just good old fashioned market research.  Their targeted research probably indicated that the audience from Buffy responded well to the Cordelia character, so they wanted some carryover to the spinoff.

Malcolm in the Middle ended in 2006, so she was clearly watching reruns.

Faux Pietro also says he ‘died for nothing,’ when real Pietro would have known he died saving a child from getting murdered by Ultron.

Well, they’ve barely started the Superman and Lois series and Stargirl will be entering its third season.  They’ve shown no signs of just shutting it all down like Netflix did with the street level Marvel series.