The Humphries stuff is really bad, and quite a letdown from what Hickman was delivering. From what I understand, he left because they were handing him the Avengers franchise.

Here's a recent one: http://www.cinemablend.com/…

My favorite part was how quiet the whole scene was. No score at all. Just an encounter between a man and his doomed son. With the other major characters watching breathlessly, just like us, holding out for the small chance that the inevitable won't happen.

I was expecting a moment between Chewie and Leia to hammer down the emotions after Han's death, but then Chewie walks PAST Leia and Leia hugs someone who is a stranger* to her instead.

Reminds me of my favorite exchange in the whole movie:

He's been pretty open about how much he wanted Han to die in RotJ. It makes sense that he came back under that one condition.

I was listening to the Filmspotting review this morning and the spoiler section pointed out something I liked about the scene: it was a pretty satisfying end to Han Solo's character arc. It's a moment that could have easily been avoided, but Han decides to confront him and try to do the right thing. Compare that to…

That one TIE fighter flight made them out to be more believable BFFs than Anakin & Obi-Wan in the entire prequel trilogy.

We haven't seen this type of engagement from Ford in over a decade and it really shows. I don't think anyone expected for him to slip back so naturally into the role. The biggest reason for me to worry was his return engagement in the last Indiana Jones. He just seemed so mumbly and tired and over it all. His Han…

Agreed. I was excited to come home and read about other people's reactions after I saw the movie last night, but then all the constant nitpicking started to bring me down. I'm going to do my best to stay away from all the "Everything Wrong With _____" type complaining. I don't want this movie to develop a Star Trek…

Cataclysm was one of the better Ultimate events, especially compared to Ultimatum. The only downside was that the universe was already pretty low-selling by the time Cataclysm happened, so it was kind of hard to care about what happened to anyone in the universe (besides Miles Morales and the Maker).

Fatale is a series that I think I need to re-read. The wait between trades killed a lot of momentum on that series for me, as the master plot was never really compelling enough for me to care about what was happening. Maybe it was because it was Brubaker/Philips' first real longform narrative since Sleeper, but it…

The slow-motion run is the scene I've heard people talk about the most after seeing the movie. Just something about the music, the editing, and the placement in the movie made me want to get up and start cheering / shadow-boxing in the middle of the theater. It mostly worked because of how much goodwill the movie had…

From what I remember, he actually crashed his computer and lost all of his planning documents for Newuniversal and other books at the time so he just decided to stop.

Garry Brown is pretty great too. These disses are seriously from out of nowhere. This writer is a jerk.

It went up until #7 before the Secret Wars relaunch and it has kept the same team since. I hope the book hangs in there for as long as it can!

One interesting thing is that when Ultimate Nightmare was published, they didn't originally announce that it was part of a trilogy. The Galactus set-up at the end of the mini-series came off as a true surprise. Compared to today, it would have immediately been used as the central marketing point.*

So glad you're feeling the Silk love. I buy a good number of Spider-Man related titles, but Silk might be my favorite one right now. Putting that book next to Spider-Gwen creates such a sharp contrast in plotting and characterization.

I kind of have this aversion to Tynion just due to how many chances he's had to step it up and how frequently he has failed to deliver. I get frustrated by the kind of nepotism that makes it so that I'm forced to pay "super size" so that I can get Tynion's unnecessary back-ups with Snyder's Batman.

I feel the exact same, except I think that King's work at least has the effect of somehow elevating Seeley's scripts by proxy. They're dealing with the same storylines so it's hard for any issue to be completely average. Seeley's work on Grayson is still much better than any of his work I've seen elsewhere.