There’s a lot of talk that he had a pretty major falling out with one of the directors of the first series of the revival. Most people assume it was Keith Boak, who directed “Rose,” “Aliens of London,” and “World War Three” and supervised the first production block in its entirety. Boak was the only one of the…

His solo series wasn’t great, and it was a lousy replacement for his cancelled Vertigo book, but I actually enjoyed his appearances in Justice League Dark. As much as I liked Hellblazer, I feel like something of Alan Moore’s original concept of the character was lost by shunting off into his own little sub-universe…

As much as I love the Rotworld material in hindsight, I think it ran on too long, and my interest in both Animal Man and Swamp Thing flagged a bit around then, as well. But I think both books picked up afterwards. Lemire ended his run on Animal Man on a high note. And Charles Soule actually turned in a better run on Sw…

The multiverse stories were interesting but the idea of waiting around for Morrison to write them is ludicris. The multiverse SHOULD be done by different creators, maybe then we could get the comics more than every few years.

maintaining the history of four Robins but dropping 90% of the history of three Batgirls

Pretty much the only credit I give to DC for the whole New 52 mess is Snyder’s run on Batman, and the way they handled the reintegrated Vertigo properties like Animal Man, Swamp Thing, and (to an extent) Justice League Dark.

Damn, what I wouldn’t give for a TV adaptation of Sandman Mystery Theatre. It could be DC’s answer to Agent Carter.

It’s not quite the same thing, to be sure, but there was a very, very good story (one of my all-time favorite Batman tales) from the Bronze Age where the Phantom Stranger takes the Earth-1, “regular earth” Batman and Robin and drops them a few parallel universes over. Just like Earth-1 ran around a generation behind…

The Kents were weird. Originally, they weren’t even really Superman’s adoptive parents: they found the kind and immediately handed him over to an orphanage, where he was raised. Later, it was explained that they immediately went back to adopt him. They were active and supportive of his superhero career all through his…

Remakes weren’t just around in the silent era, they were far more common. Chances are good that, if you have a particular favorite film from the 1930s or 1940s, it was either remade later, or a remake itself. A successful movie might get remade multiple times in a single decade. There was never a point at which they…

Man, I am so jealous that you got to experience Sam and Friends when it was going out. I was raised in the DC area, but too late for that, and the fact that so few clips survive in circulation these days depresses me to no end. Especially because of how much I dig early Henson stuff: his weirder, more experimental…

The Crypt Keeper from the original EC comics wasn’t particularly corpse-like. He was just a scraggly looking old guy (there was a story suggesting that he was undead, but you certainly wouldn’t know it by looking at him). An “old man in a hood” isn’t that far off the mark, if the new show wants to go back to basics.…

Even in its golden age, Interplay had a ton of problems. When Brian Fargo was still in charge, the company did a decent job of hiding those problems from the general public. The company certainly didn’t pull of the sketchy, money-grabbing nonsense that’s become synonymous with the brand since Titus Software/Herve Caen…

Interestingly, there’s no mention of “Tobe Hooper’s Spider-Man” in this list....

Er, did you read more than the first line of the comment to which your originally responded? Because I wasn’t aware that we were ever disagreeing....

For me, it’s not that I’m worried about the aesthetic quality. It’s a port of a game that’s over fifteen years old, in any case. But Square Enix’s track record means that it’s likely going to use the touch screen interface even for the PC version, and that’s as unfortunate as it was for Final Fantasy III through Final…

I’ve been playing the Final Fantasy series since the first one of the NES. My favorite is probably the original Famicom Final Fantasy III (but the DS remake is trash). Final Fantasy VIII is a close runner up, and would probably take the crown save for the mishandled revelation about GFs, which strains credibility and…

For all practical purposes, sure. But legally, both written and verbal agreements are viewed as contracts and are treated as equivalent. The difference is that if you’re already in court, there’s clearly been a disagreement over the terms of that contract. If it’s all been written down, it’s relatively simple to go…

Well, I mean, that’s a reasonable reaction that I honestly can’t hold against Tomorrowland too much, given that I adore Meet the Robinsons.

Legally, a verbal agreement is as good as a written contract, at least in theory. In practice, it’s not even close, because verbal agreements are typically pretty lax, and, even when they’re not, it effectively turns into a “he said, she said” thing, and that’s the sort of thing that typically isn’t going to resolve…