To be fair, I can see this being a tough sell for some people who really like the comic, and, as you said, those who don't have a ton of patience. But this is the first episode that felt, for me, like a Preacher show, through and through. Really excited to see the next one, which wasn't a feeling I necessarily had…

Oh, now I want to watch Hot Rod again!

Agreed on all of that, I just read that first volume as well this past week!

"That's My Dog" really stands out on that very first viewing, as a shocking, visceral experience, where at that point you honestly don't know if David is going to come out of it ok, or even survive it. My subsequent viewings are fairly similar to yours, I find.

Whoever they got to narrate did a pretty fantastic job of intoning some meaningful implications behind really silly lines.

After some poor testing groups they went back and added in the the narration after the fact, which I think actually helps the film.

I avoided them all, but after reading about it I'm seriously considering checking it out now.

Haha, I don't know, I would almost flip those. I might have to watch it again, but there are so many things about it that are, well, cheap, i.e. the special effects, the scenery-chewing from Kevin Bacon and vacant stares of January Jones, that get excused precisely because it's an X-men movie. If that film were…

It kind of wasn't either of those things, but it WAS better than the Last Stand, so it all worked out!

It's a comic geek's world, you're just living in it

BOOOOO we shall never speak of that mini-series again!

None of that happened in my universe

I gave this one a D-level grade.

Yep, which went so far off the rails I was worried the series wouldn't recover. Spoiler: it does, and spectacularly so.

No. That's why the period is there. On a related note, I will likely sell both of them once they get their periods. Might as well enjoy mediocre family films in the meantime though.

He's competent. That's enough for a franchise-launching film like Thor. I never expected him to return after that first one, as it was safely bland in all the right ways and had enough action and wit to encourage making more.

Sold. Both my daughters want to see this and if it's competent enough, then they'll enjoy it.

I… HATE… MONDAAAAAYYYSSSS

A gay man hosting the Oscars? are we ready for such progress?

He has some pretty impeccable taste when it comes to comics.