Again, I’m not saying it can’t be done, but in the world of comics, it really hasn’t.

“Worked as well” in what sense, though? Creatively? Probably, judging by a long history of ensemble casts in movies. Commercially? Perhaps not, but if they’d started with The Avengers and it had done Iron Man numbers it wouldn’t have mattered. They would have spun solo movies out of it and the huge, record-setting box…

The Magnificent Seven, then. Or, well, take your pick. The notion that Marvel invented the ensemble movie with The Avengers flies in the face of decades of Hollywood history.

Guardians of the Galaxy was an ensemble to ensure that Infinity War can happen so it’s still within that notion of a big, shared universe.

I think the “solo movies first” hot take is the absolute worst lesson WB or anyone can take from this. Yes, it can work, and, yes, it worked for Marvel. But the idea that it’s the only way to lead into an ensemble action movie is absurd. Audiences didn’t need eleven prequels to prepare them for Ocean’s Eleven. Even at…

Creatively, I agree. But given how the “brooding billionaire playboy” character is the most popular one in both major comic book themed shared universes going on at the moment, I’m not sure the masses are all that sick of it.

He’s been cast as Black Adam, but the character has since been cut from Shazam. He’s still got the role in some unspecified future movie, but he hasn’t filmed anything yet so they could still pretty easily bump him over to Batman.

Nah. The Legion of Super-Heroes would’ve been DC’s Guardians of the Galaxy. You could even use them to intro Darkseid to the larger shared universe, given their historical connection (the LSH was one of the first DC books to embrace the character after Kirby). New Gods would’ve been closer to DC’s Inhumans. Though…

I’ve been a bigger fan of these movies than most people (excepting Suicide Squad. Fuck Suicide Squad.) but the one thing that has always bugged me about them is the... costume design? CG design? Whatever you’d call it. Going back to Man of Steel, I found their version of the Superman suit too drab. Batman’s cowl seems…

I’m honestly not sure I’d call the first Captain America a good movie. It’s not terrible, but that’s down almost entirely to some great direction and acting. The plot itself is dangerously thin and an obvious place-holding exercise to get us to the Avengers movie. Weirdly, I’d say the opposite about the first Thor,…

Tony Stark is my go-to example of thoroughly unlikable protagonists in superhero films. He started off as a self-absorbed prick in his first solo movie and has, over the intervening decade, graduated to being a self-righteous, holier-than-thou self-absorbed prick today. He’s witty and superficially charming, thanks to…

It’s not clear yet. Bandage guy’s identity is presumably going to be a factor later on the main Dark Nights: Metal book.

I was moderately obsessed with it when it was originally airing. I was genuinely heartbroken when it got canceled.

That’s not true!

Bugs isn’t a gold hearted grifter. Bugs is a trickster god. He’s Coyote, Raven, Anansi, Loki, or Br’er Rabbit.

Cell death by itself isn’t really the issue. The actual component matter that makes up a person at age 3 is substantially different than the matter than makes up that same person at age 30. Matter is sloughed off of the body in various ways, be through shedded skin and dust, hair, excrement, and so forth. Cell death…

Honestly, I feel like Porky has the most consistent character of any of the core Looney Tunes stable. Bugs Bunny is usually the “gold hearted grifter” (I like that description), but it took him a number of years to get to that point, and it varied from director to director: Tex Avery typically portrayed him as a…

For what it’s worth, they’ve always denied doing any drugs. Said that they wouldn’t have been able to be as prolific as they were if they had. But, of course, since this was the ‘70's, take all of that with the requisite grains of salt.

That’s... not a bad comparison, actually. Although I’d argue that Doki Doki Literature Club! is better realized than The Uncle Who Works at Nintendo.

The Steam version isn’t censored, for what it’s worth.