The columnists at Io9.com, like their peers at places like ComicsAlliance, never claim to be objective and non-partisan. They like what they like. I don't know any media critic who isn't unbiased, so you're looking in the wrong places if you want Smallville love.

I don't know if it's flirting so much as "I know something you don't know..."

...Apropos of nothing, does anyone *not* think that the Curse Regina stole from Maleficient is the Sleeping Beauty curse, working to keep Storybrooke's populace "asleep" in modern-day identities (talk about 'sleepy little town' indeed) and the entire region walled off in time and space* from the rest of the world (the…

Addressing some of these points in no particular order:

Shades of Ghostbusters.

My thought is that Superman's "armor" is actually sonar paneling. If this title reboot is to do what it's supposed to do, I wouldn't be surprised if Superman ends up with stronger limitations and complications this time around, such as possibly exhausting the solar energy in his cells faster than the sun's ambient…

Stephen Geoffreys is (or was) "gay for pay." Whether he was ever *actually* gay is debatable.

I had John Norman as a professor for a Modern Logic class I took during my sophomore year at CUNY Queens College. I can safely say I learned more about logical thinking outside of his class than in it. Not to mention that he talks the way he writes.

Clever, but not brilliant or innovative. The only positive potential here is for Bruce Wayne to be less of a cipher for the identity of Batman than he has been over the years. I suppose I should recognize the token effort to acknowledge that you can't have a legacy without passing on the mantle somehow.