It's a good response, but Mayor Adler clearly doesn't understand how email works.

"He could be" is about right. I don't like it when people say Trump is worse than Bush or Nixon, because it minimizes the things Bush and Nixon did — unnecessary wars are a gimme, plus there's Bush's torture program and Nixon, we now know, intentionally undermining peace talks that could have ended the Vietnam War…

I thought the doomsday prepper episode of The Simpsons was one of the better episodes of latter-day Simpsons, and it basically made that point. Homer bugs out with the survivalists, then decides he needs to take supplies back to Springfield to help his friends and neighbors, but when they get there everybody's doing…

I did most of my X-Men reading in the 1990s, and man, I hate the 1990s. '90s Cyclops was just a bland stick in the mud, and Archangel was the very picture of grim n gritty angst. I do like the more recent take of Cyclops gradually becoming Magneto, though. (Don't know what Angel is up to these days.)

I still wish that First Class hadn't been so worried about maintaining continuity with the previous films and had just gone full-on reboot. (Granted, then we wouldn't have gotten Days of Future Past, which wound up being a pretty good way to close out the original series and largely made up for X-Men 3.) I'd have…

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I don't know if I'd say the X-Men are a better property than Spider-Man, but you make a good point about their versatility. Fox only just now seems to be figuring out how many different things it can do with them; hopefully it goes full-on space opera with Dark Phoenix.

I wasn't aware Perlmutter was still in charge of the TV division, but that explains Inhumans changing from a movie to a TV show.

To your earlier point about Riri and Carol: it bears noting that a character's reception in the comics isn't necessarily an indication of how she'll be received in the movies. (Hell, when Iron Man came out, comics readers were still pissed about Civil War.) The comics are clearly valuable to the moviemakers as R&D,…

Yeah, there's a whole lot to say about how well things work out when Marvel trusts creators versus how poorly they do when corporate mandates run the show. On the comics side, there's been a pattern since the 1960s of "scrappy underdog Marvel hires talented creators and lets them do whatever they want, leading to…

I'll agree; I think perhaps you underestimate audiences' tolerance for repetition, but I'll also acknowledge (once again) that Deadpool and Logan prove there's a market for different approaches.

I think "the complexity of the comics" is exactly what the movies shouldn't pursue; as it is the shared universe is already too complicated for casual viewers to stay on top of. My dad saw Civil War without seeing Winter Soldier or Age of Ultron and he had no idea what the fuck was going on — yes, it's a sequel, but…

"That's the reality" is a cute thing to say about conjecure about something that you expect to happen in the future, but saying a thing with certainty doesn't make it certain.

Yes, but your criticisms apply to Hollywood movies in general. There's nothing specific to the superhero genre there. I don't see anybody watching boring, formulaic action movies or boring, formulaic horror movies and then arguing that this is the end of action movies and horror movies.

Nah, he didn't say "Catwoman".

Like, where's Wile E Coyote getting all that money to buy all those elaborate traps from Acme? And couldn't he just go buy a nice meal with it?

You know, I was going to respond with a reasoned rebuttal citing sources, but then I realized your argument is a strawman followed by four exclamation points.

It does feel like "classic" superhero movies are on the way out. We're overloaded with SH flicks from the same mold - origin story, protagonist's struggle to accept his role, epic final fight with evil boss.

Obviously it won't last forever

It turns out the secret to making a good X-Men adaptation is to release it in 2017 and have the title start with an "L", end with an "N", and have a "G" in the middle somewhere.