This is a good point. Recently, DC cartoons haven’t been so great, from overly “mature” animated features like Killing Joke to too far in the other direction with Teen Titans Go, DC Superhero Girls, etc. (I’ve seen a little bit of the Marvel equivalents of these, e.g. that one where Stan Lee is the mayor of a city of…

The same. It’s like Brian and Bryan that way. (I once heard that the spelling “Bryan” was actually just by associätion with “Ryan” anyway, so turnabout is fair play.

Wouldn’t that movie be the adaptation of the third His Dark Materiäls book as well?

Onion Pie actually sounds pretty delicious.

You’re the second one to point that out, but that is well within the past decade, i.e. it came out 8.5 years ago. If 8.5 years ago isn’t part of the past ten years, where is the cut-off? And that was my point; why ten years? It seemed designed to include Dark Knight but exclude Batman Begins (11.5 years ago), which is…

I remembered reading that the real NJ (huh, I never before realized his initials were the same as his home state!) was a Tony-Soprano-looking guy, but that since BE’s creätor had just gone that route, he opted for an alternate take for his follow-up show.

Oh good. You’d of course be welcome to hate the whole franchise just because Minion memes are dumb; you certainly’dn’t be alone. But I wanted to make sure it wasn’t that easy for everyöne.

I know you’re joking, but what are WWII’s parents? Obviöusly WWI (and thus his paternal grandparents are a series of secret alliänces and imperiälism), but who’s the other?

One of my favorite books is Daniel Handler’s Adverbs which is nothing (and I mean nothing) without atmosphere and ambiguïty.

There’s precedent for that. This is a photo of the real Nucky Johnson.

Forms a pretty awesome stealth trilogy with Gremlins 2 and his Gawker-leaked sex tape.

What’s your ideal DC adaptation? I was thinking the Swamp Thing/Batman altercation in Earth to Earth, from Del Toro or Cuarón mebbe. Set it in the present with the current political climate. I would definitely allow Batfleck.

Did they not make Dark Knight? I’m not beïng cheeky, is that licensed to some other studiö? And why the “decade” cut-off? Are you tryïng t’exclude Superman Returns from your span for some reason?

TIL that that song is called “Panama” and not “Animal.”

It couldn’t make his movies worse!

I thought it was a joke about how, yes, we know there are a milliön WWII movies, it seems like these days there are even more about Batman.

I feel some of the sentiment here, even if both kneejerk love of Marvel movies and kneejerk derision of DC movies are Internet clichés. If you were a writer for the AVClub (which I guess you think the pro-Disney conspiracy would prevent?) you could just write a piece about how WW and LB are your two most anticipated…

I loved the first Despicable Me and really liked the second, altho was left underwhelmed by the spin-off. Still, I might agree with you about the third. having seen trailer, it looks like it adds nothing to the formula.

This prolly should’ve just been an AVQ+A, because the number was pretty random and it was not predictable how many pieces each author wrote. Then, the comments could be more “Mine is X” and not “How could you have Y and not X?”

That book sounds amazing. I know we just talked on the New Year’s resolution page about reading the books we own but haven’t read, but damnit, I’ve already requested that from the library.