There’s something to be said about a character that shamelessly ripped off Wasp’s powers and gimmick ending up in a copyright dispute, but over a yellow alien car-robot created years later than both characters

Economically, they’re having their cake and eating it too. People take the criticisms way too far into harassment, but forcing the business side to pick sides by trying to make playing the middle more costly is unfortunately one of the most effective direct actions one can take in our current society (which is a…

The administration wanted to pivot from a controversy that they didn’t want to deal with to a controversy that they’ve engineered to energize their base, and the press obliged despite how obvious it was that they were being exploited

I’m glad you linked to Fahey’s article, I’m generally agnostic to translucent aesthetics as well as modding but that Switch looks fucking great

“Bury your gays” is this century’s “The black dude dies first.” I understand your point about the balance between specific narrative drama and larger cultural trends, but “we made the best friend a black person, but we had to kill them to raise the stakes” was a reasonable explanation the first time that eventually see…

Ugh, there’s more aggression and venom in the average string of back and forth Post-it messages on the break room microwave after someone reheats fish

Honestly, I’d tell everybody about that even if I couldn’t sue. That already tops any anecdote I’ve ever participated in

...it’s not the theft of the wording that matters as much as the theft of the idea. Plagiarism is theft of original thought; changing the words around and pretending to have written something new is the same pile of shit with a dab of cologne thrown on top.

Because of this speculation boom, issue #1s typically sold double (people bought one to save and one to read.) 90s Venom comics ran for 60 continuous monthly issues, but called each story arc a miniseries. This is why there are over a dozen Venom #1s from just that era, but no Venom #7 until the 2000s

Even if the owner goes underwater the brand retains value and someone is likely to buy it. The union can establish early on that accepting their current contract is a condition of keeping the employees, which are also a big part of the brand. It’s no guarantee, but at least it gets the union a seat at the table during…

Ultimately, that’s for the owners to deal with because those are the choices the owners made. Bargaining for a living wage isn’t raiding a treasure chest (though assuming large quantities of debt without a clear plan to pay it back is another story)

People like treasure hunts, they’re fun to watch and make the audience feel smart for guessing and pleasantly surprised when they were wrong. Problem is audiences need a reason to revisit them once they’ve already taken the ride, so they need memorable characters and settings to elevate it beyond the tropes.

Pfft, I’m over here working out the Mario timeline. I’m still working out the kinks, but my working theory is that the series mostly takes place prior to the KT Extinction and Mushroom kingdom were basically the Shoggoths from Lovecraft 

Boise, woudst thou like to live...deliciously?

Ryan Coogler agrees with you

I actually think Kraven is a villain that would work better on screen than the comics, but villain is the key word there. They could make character like the Operative from Serenity or the original Terminator, but with a Black Panther-style physicality and speed, and a flamboyant style that could produce a wide variety…

That’s the only way the NFL knows how to respond to controversy!

When your brand starts to get associated with terms like “pedophiles” and “what parents need to know,” it’s much less of a loss

I don’t believe that I said any of that, but please feel free to read back on what I wrote to make sure.

The whole point of what, exactly? I am saying that your interpretation of the article yesterday is flawed, and because of that you seem to be implying hypocrisy on the part of the writer. I believe that the viewpoints between yesterday’s article and today’s are consistent.