Why did a Kryptonian name his project after a character from human mythology, that’s what I was wondering.

Is there something among Gawker Media staff that almost invariably prevents articles that should be self-reflective (or accusatory of peers) from being so? Why is this stuff always about someone else besides yourselves as the first, worst examples of the legitimate point you’re making? Is this something like the union…

I had almost been assuming that this film is going to explain that the exhaust port in the Death Star was designed as a flaw on purpose by a high-level saboteur (the Mikkelsen character). Which is maybe how the Rebels find the flaw so easily once R2-D2 gets to the Yavin base—there’s probably a note in the plans that…

Could we please stop even in being funny with the “we must colonize Mars, because we ruined Earth?” Even an upper-bound climate change scenario Earth is easier to make liveable (though deeply unpleasant) than Mars is. As others invariably point out every time this gets said, it’s not only wrong to think Mars can be…

Well, or the Steinbeck.

Capaldi’s portrayal of the role is among the very best ever in the history of the series. This is 100% about the writing and showrunning, and it’s a damn shame if this move is made with the idea that he bears any responsibility for any change in performance.

I remain in awe of people with the hubris to write articles like this despite 150 years of them being less correct than random chance guesses.

Now if only Marvel comics themselves could follow this advice. I would love a moratorium for 3-5 years on “major company-wide events that change the status quo”. Lots of interesting character situations are being set up and then almost instantly voided because the BIG EVENT has dictated that characters have to behave…

There are moments where you say, “Really? This is really our culture?”. Reading casting news for a major live-action film production of “Peter Rabbit” is one of those moments.

This feels like the way Starlin habitually grabs onto Thanos and Warlock any time Marvel gives him a chance to write them and then just ignores or even corrects anything that anyone else has done with the characters. Or the way Byrne would maliciously undo anything any other creator had done—not just do the book his…

See headline: think, hm, I should read that, it might be important.

In a funny kind of way, the Netflix shows are turning into a kind of fractured ode to New York City.

That makes me think two more things. First, they have just *got to* get Spider-Man in there somehow, even if it’s just a cameo. Maybe in the Defenders. You can’t be celebrating Superhero New York and not have…

He was originally just a really scuzzy arms dealer with an interesting background (born in Ethiopia, but sided with the Italians when they invaded). Later on he got superpowered up through what originally seemed like the usual comic-book falling into chemicals and then falling into a rift in the Earth but later was…

This right here is where the thinness of people’s ability to use history to reason about the future gets most clearly revealed. Musk is counting on this analogy of the settlement of the Americas by Europeans and Africans on some level to paper over what’s not being said about the whole thing.

First, let’s just imagine…

Musk may not be an idiot, but there is a lot of flim-flam going on here at multiple levels, and Gizmodo writers continue to be strangely naive at best about Musk’s visions.

Musk is claiming that a rocket of that size will be able to hold 100-200 people in comfort, that psychological and social issues will be no problem…

Dormammu and Loki did have one famous team-up...against the Avengers AND Defenders...

And guess why people don’t like Gawker Media. Here’s a post where something the poster didn’t know changes everything about the post. So what do you get? A line added at the end once the author realizes, oh, fucking whoops. Rather than what you should get: an apology for the entire existence of the post. A correction.…

And here I was afraid you folks would somehow get a little wiser and a little more willing to admit that the gleeful lack of editorial standards in the past played at least some role in what happened later on. Nope! For folks who value free speech, you’re not really interested in hearing even the smallest criticism…

Honestly, that’s not the way it worked in the Atlantic slave trade between 1720-1860. Being returned to a place you didn’t know and weren’t part of equalled being enslaved again. There’s a great book called The Two Princes of Calabar that lays this out in some rich and compelling ways. When the British anti-slavery…

This is just a poignant example of where every superhero narrative falls flat because it must. The entire genre is basically liberalism on steroids (which I hasten to say, *is* appealing): that individuals matter, and that they can act consequentially to make the world a better place as individuals, not just as…