Here is a thing I love

Fun Fact: The Touch was originally written for the Stallone movie Cobra

I work for a major automotive company in the UK (well, I technically work for an outsourced customer service company on contract to a major automotive company, but... Close enough), and the next big thing they’re aiming for is, in effect, providing short term car hire directly to consumers rather than via fleet…

Yeah. You know, sometimes, as a straight white guy, I roll my eyes at demands that “this character is gay, that character is gay”. Not anything I’d whine too much about. I don’t object to people feeling represented because I’m not a gigantic piece of shit. I just accept that people see what they want in things and I’m…

I moved to Leeds last summer. I can personally confirm everyone here is stunned by how shitty that logo is. And I just got back from a work event at Elland Road.

I’ve seen it! It’s brilliant.

It’s... Not as good as this article might suggest, but it’s still definitely worth a look. It has some great performances and a few stunningly good shots, but it feels weirdly overlong for a movie that’s under two hours and despite the subject matter, it feels like it sort of fails to really dig down into a few…

So here’s an interesting question me and a friend pondered after this (admittedly great) news came out. What are the odds that once actors start departing from major MCU roles (RDJr, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johanssen and Chris Evans have got to be coming to the end of their runs in the near future), what are the odds…

I remember the one that got me out of the greys. Buggered if I can find the article, but it was Analee that dragged me screaming into the daylight, way back in the mists of time before Kinja

I don’t understand why this is such a big deal.

It definitely doesn’t. Martin has confirmed it a few times. It’s apparently slightly larger than earth and has three major known continents.

Pube-guh

Oh christ he got the gush

Correlation does not equal causation. He might have the data. He might also be a desperate marketing guy trying to tell his audience what he thinks they want to hear. None of that actually proves anything about what publishing comics in which the majority cast are straight white guys actually means.

I’d chuck in Black Monday Murders, My Favourite Thing Is Monsters, The World Storm and Squirrel Girl.

Yeah, I definitely wasn’t aiming for a “well, actually...”. He’s absolutely part of management and there’s absolutely no excuse for him having said it, but we can at least take heart that the creators probably aren’t quite as stupid.

Small correction: it was David Gabriel, who’s in the sales department, who was the one claiming diversity didn’t sell. It was at a retailer conference.

Marvel is in a pretty shit place at the moment. They’ve been losing a lot of really good talent in the last couple of years, and with the loss of Bendis (not particularly a huge fan of his work, but I appreciate that his loss is a big deal), Starlin, and possibly Dan Slott if he doesn’t stick around after his long run…

No, the punky Zatanna is absolutely awful because absolutely nothing about that costume design has a damn thing to do with anything about her character. She’s never been a punk or a rock chick. Her visual style is a sexed up version of a stage magician. Not a 14 year old who wandered into a Hot Topic with too much…

You’ve missed my point COMPLETELY. Not once did I say that being a movie for kids excuses any flaws. Nor did I say that it being a movie intended to inspire and resonate with children means it’s a childish movie.