Sure, people make short films all the time. Granted, they don't put them in theaters, but they still get made quite regularly.

Although, where else could this have gone besides the religion?

I don't know if this is considered sacrilegious, but I'm gonna have to go with The Hurt Locker. It was almost like they did such an amazing job of establishing an incredible premise, that nothing they could do subsequently could actually live up to that. The first couple bomb encounters were so incredibly tense and…

As for that Batman radio show, (which I've never heard of but now I have to find - thank you!) it sounds dreadful! Truly dreadful. It's a shame that it ruined the Batman character forever... oh wait, it didn't. O.k so that was unnecessarily sarcastic, but do you see what I mean? These characters are so good, so…

The context shows what he was talking about. For example if I say I want to kill someone it may not actually mean that.

Changing and adapting comics characters for the film going audience seems to have worked out pretty well for Marvel so far and Batman still brings in massive audiences.

- The Jon Kent thing is a completely inaccurate read of the character. You clearly don't understand. He's unsure of what to tell his son, trying to find a balance between being an encouraging father and being protective. It's not inaccurate, it echoes the evolution of the character.

I just found an app on iTunes, "Old Time Radio Show for Superman Fans - 1000 + Episodes" by Taha Maddam. I don't have any iOS devices, so I can't preview it myself, but if it is what it claims to be, it would be by far the most thorough and well-organized collection of Superman radio episodes that I've ever seen.

Nope. Do you?

You can also find it on iTunes. "Comicweb.com's Old Time Superman Radio Programs" has 300 episodes (though the order seems to be pretty messed up, but there are episode guides elsewhere on the net). There's another one simply called "The Old Time Radio Superman Show" which also has 300 (the most recent upload says…

Or maybe almost certainly Dark Knight Returns, which isn't exactly an alternate earth, but is still very much an alternate depiction of Superman.

I'm in full agreement about the spit-curl, but not about the cape. Given what little we have to work with, I think it's the best feature of this costume.

But we're still getting three of the most iconic modern characters in one film. I'm excited. It's a good time to love comics, all comics.

I love how we spent years maligning superhero movies for not being dark or gritty enough.

He wasn't in Gotham City at any point in the previous movie, and yet the overall tone and feel was similarly dour. If they hadn't already made Man of Steel basically just a superpowered Batman, then the contrast between Superman's brightness and Gotham's darkness would be exciting and visually striking. But given…

I'm not sure if you're being satirical, but if you aren't, then I would say this: he's an alien who can fly and shoot laser beams out of his eyes. You have no problem with that, but the six-pack is a bridge too far? It's all part of the suspending the same disbelief.

That's BS! Brandon Routh was totally a featured guest star on a whole season of Chuck, and the star of some horror movie nobody saw, and some indie comedy with the girl from Once Upon a Time that I saw on Netflix, and there was the role in Scott Pilgrim... okay, fine, ya got me.

To me, it wasn't the simple lack of smile, but the overall muted colors and visual tone of the presentation as a whole, that's very antithetical to Superman's usual tone of bright optimism.

I don't know; I don't want to be too nitpicky or pedantic, but this is the internet, after all.

I just think people are beating a dead horse.