Absolutely. Venom usually gets lumped in with other 90s-era TOTALLY TWIZTED villains/anti-heroes. But at least in the beginning he very much fit into the model of most of Spider-Man’s most compelling villains because he had reasons to hate Spidey and Peter Parker. The symbiote behaving like a stalker ex-lover was such…

I understand why all the little coincidences in Spider-Man 3 come off as hacky. But I feel like that’s just Raimi’s affection for the comics shining through. Especially during the Lee/Romita years, “Amazing Spider-Man” was as much soap opera as it was superhero. A huge part of that was how inextricable Peter Parker’s…

Although...I can’t think of anyone more deserving to have a rat cage strapped to his face.

This is someone’s MAME cabinet artwork, isn’t it?

Also, both of these teams have won a World Series within the last decade, so there’s no supernatural heebie-jeebie bullshit attached to every close play.

Counterpoint - 666 is the number of the beast according to IRON FUCKING MAIDEN.

Participating in the political process is not allowable anymore because it’s “political.”

I once got followed around a bulletin board for days because I told some guy to “calm down” about Kyle Rayner replacing Hal Jordan as Green Lantern. “You just made yourself an enemy, you son of a bitch,” was the exact quote. Any comment I made on any topic, this guy was there to call me out for it. Things have…

It was funny when they just appeared among the demons in Yokai Town - “and there were some turtle-monsters with ninja weapons, too” - but then they just kept showing up over and over again. On the other hand, I was impressed with how he managed to work Popeye into the proceedings, so yeah, they’re not all going to hit…

Practically everything that happens nowadays is the absolute stupidest version of things that could happen. So yes, there absolutely will be a character named “The Watchman” in this adaptation of “Watchmen.”

I like Anno Dracula a lot, but also feel like Newman tries to be too cute by half with some of his allusions to other characters. It makes sense that Dracula would keep the Frankenstein Monster and John Merrick chained up in Buckingham Palace, but going out of his way to insert the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into…

The way they do things now I’m shocked they didn’t announce “Renfield: Origins” first. Thirteen episodes of bullshit punctuated by shots of him seeing a spider and licking his lips or something. Then the first season ends with them laying the first stone for the foundation of Carfax Abbey and everyone’s supposed to…

It’s so great that we’ve been trained to believe that “political agenda = bad.” Don’t listen to that guy, he wants something to happen!

Right around when South Park became a phenomenon, I remember an interview Stone and Parker did where they talked about how they wanted the show to evolve way beyond the limitations of its premise. They said that as big Monty Python fans, they were looking forward to the day when they could take the show into…

I love the “s” hastily added to the “LGBT” part of that flag. “Hey, whoa, hold on a second, we found another one! Gimme that marker!”

“Hey, what’s up, Michigan? Got a systematic failure of institutions that resulted in the poisoning of disadvantaged people and was covered up by a corrupt government in a disheartening display of mankind’s endless avarice and shortsightedness much? GO TRIBE!!”

In all fairness, though, it is a REALLY dumb tweet.

He hunts Venom, and wears a big rubber Halloween mask with the jaw and the tongue flopping around the whole time.

At least we have a little variety in our liberal boogeymen now. A couple of years ago, Cotton would have been spitting about how Ford was once seen at Whole Foods at the same time as Nancy Pelosi. Now we’re going to spend the next couple of years watching these dipshits insist that the ghost clown haunting the old…

The thing that makes Superman Returns interesting to me is that it’s not afraid to show Superman as wrong. He made a mistake in leaving Earth (and Lois), and there’s literally nothing he can do about it. He has to confront the fact that he screwed up and that Lois and their son can get by without him. It’s the one…