I would argue that Brutus *is* the good guy, in that he's the only one of the conspirators who legitimately believes he's serving the good of Rome and not just his own ambition. When Antony calls him "the noblest Roman of them all" it's manipulative and self-serving, but not wrong.

Damn it. I read "Stephen King's I.T." and now I really want to see that movie.

I'd say that Peter spending more time out of costume was a story dictate in Civil War, though (as opposed to, say, the Raimi trilogy, which most definitely looked for every excuse of could to unmask Spider-Man at every opportunity, no matter how little story sense it made).

Yeah, I don't think there's any question that the movies would benefit from more cartoony, less "realistic" / boring robot designs.

The hell of it is, yeah, OK, this is a glorified toy commercial and we all know it, but it really IS possible to tell a great, character-oriented story about these robots that turn into things, from Beast Wars' story of Dinobot, the tragic knight who's too honorable to be a villain but struggles to become (and…

That's a fair reading, but there are other possible readings too.

Lennon did, however, say this (Rolling Stone, 1969):

"He drinks the water and puts the glass back down." "YOU CAN'T DO TWO SEQUENTIAL ACTIONS IN A SINGLE PANEL."

I haven't actually visited a Kinja site in years; I remember their comments section being better than Disqus at the time, but obviously that could have changed.

Why Flounder?

Yeah, it was called Crossed+100 and took place 100 years after the original series.

Some people do. I don't know if anyone at Marvel currently does or not, but Groo, for example, is created Marvel-style, with Aragones plotting, drawing, and providing dialogue suggestions and Evanier finishing the dialogue up.

Depends on the team; some people work really well Marvel-style, and some hate it. I recently read a really interesting essay by Steve Ditko where he excoriated the Marvel Method, not just for the well-documented reasons about how unfair it is to give a "written by" credit to a guy who just adds dialogue to an…

Moore himself has backed off from it; I read an interview — maybe last year? — where he said that, when he was preparing to write Crossed, he read some of Ennis's scripts for the original series and was really impressed by how much he could communicate without going into excessive detail. (Moore also acknowledged his…

Drags a little near the end, but yeah, it's pretty close to perfect.

Yeah, I'll agree; going back to previously-visited locations to gather MacGuffins felt like padding instead of natural progression.

I mean, if you don't want that, that's fine, you can play something else. But what you just described is what Metroid *is*. It's a big interconnected world where progression is controlled through your ability set, and much of the forward momentum comes from seeing a place you know you can't get to and then coming back…

Set it on Zebes.

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Props to Flake for acting quickly and helping tend to the wounded until the paramedics arrived. I don't agree with him on much politically, but he deserves recognition for what he did today.