Would you ask Tom Petty that question?

Now I really feel sorry for the multi-millionaire in charge of one of the biggest media franchises in the world who has only been in the entertainment business for around three decades. Thanks for that.

So glad James Gunn is making the bold artistic choice to make a movie about dudes dealing with dude issues near CGI. What a bold, unique choice.

I like Avengers Academy but I still generally liked most of the other stories going on around him.

Y'know, I've read Peter David's second X-Factor and there's lots of ok Quicksilver stuff there but he's always sort of my least favorite part of that ensemble. I've never gotten to read his '90s run on the title. Marvel really needs to do a better job rereleasing all of the original X-Factor series.

Most of 2009's high points are just playing "Spot the References." It's not very good.

I think most of them are pretty obsessed with the Bucky/Natasha pairing from Brubaker's Winter Soldier as well as their complimentary stories of being controlled or conditioned by the Russians. I think they're mostly drawn to the "bonding through shared trauma" thing.

Fuckity-bye, old friend.

I was mostly joking but more seriously I agree with you. My biggest issue with Dollhouse is that while it is making that point, it's very much having it's cake and eating it too.

I've got The Question on the docket for the weekend so I'm going to get to it. I've always been a big fan of Rucka's DC work and his previous stuff on the character is some of his best.

I've never liked Quicksilver or Scarlet Witch as characters but Quicksilver always struck me as particularly dull and grating. A couple months ago, I read Son of M and, like I do with many things I read digitally, posted panels of it on Tumblr as I read it. Suddenly, I had legions of Quicksilver roleplayers, fans, and…

That makes sense. I wasn't sure on '77s schedule.

It's my problem with a lot of fandom around violent or troubled characters but it really seemed to bubble up around Bucky after the movie. Often it seems to sexualize or romanticize trauma in a way that I find troubling to an interpretation to the character and often potentially difficult for people dealing with…

You could have shortened that to [Joss Whedon creates Dollhouse]

Yeah, sorry about that. Reading over my response, I was really unclear with what I meant about "heroic action."

Maybe they'll replace it with the new Wonder Woman TV Show series.

It's been a while since I've read it but the tone of Volume 2, to me, is drawing deeply from the same ideas Tolkien was in Lord of the Rings, namely that with the new technology of the 21st Century, humanity is rushing to find better and more effective ways to destroy one another. I think this appears in the weapon…

I see what you're saying but I don't think I'm bringing outside morality into an insular piece of fiction because of the tone Moore is using. I think he wants us to read League not as the popcorn entertainment of Die Hard but as something closer to magical realism. He explicitly evokes the Blitz over London, chemical…

'69 is the worst part of League and I'm genuinely surprised I liked 2009 as much as I did after reading that piece of trash.

I saw that it was pushed back already, possibly to June/July.