There is no idea I find more tiresome in all of comic books than this one. Watchmen is not some untouchable masterwork. There is no more an ethical minefield at play here than any other comic book featuring characters created by another author, including Watchmen itself. Alan Moore lives to complain about how…

The real question is, am I still grey?

Is there any sort of way of checking if the account claim form worked? I tried the disqus claim website yesterday, but it never seemed to actually log me into disqus to migrate my account.

Not sure if my Disqus claim thingy worked out, but here goes nothing...

It suffers more from spreading itself way too thin than from being an outright bad movie. Whedon throws a lot of big ideas at the wall (Is it futile to try to save humanity from itself? Isn't war awful? Can these two damaged people find love?) and there isn't enough time for any of them to develop fully. There are a…

He does have a pretty spotty resume, with your Troys and X-Men Origins, but The 25th Hour is an incredible film, arguably Spike Lee's best (though it's definitely not as much of a classic as Do the Right Thing). Never read Benioff's original novel, so maybe that movie's greatness is all Lee, but between that and Game…

Legitimate question: can anyone tell me what it is Jamie Hewlett actually does in Gorillaz? I get that he draws the characters, but does he contribute anything musically or tonally to the project? I guess I'm trying to figure out why he's such an important part of the "band" and why Damon Albarn can't just collaborate…

I would strongly disagree w/ that: The Lee/Romita run on Amazing Spider-Man is almost inarguably superior to the Lee/Ditko run and Silver Surfer: Parable (written in 1988) easily stands as one of his best works. The man was a good writer in his right.

But Lee was a co-creator on those books and should be credited as such. To do so doesn't take away from Kirby or Ditko's own achievements.

Just because the Marvel Method had artists take on the lion's share of the work on books, that doesn't mean you can dismiss Stan Lee's contributions to the characters' out of hand. The man was plotting (to varying degrees), editing, and writing the dialogue for nearly Marvel book for the better part of two decades.

I wouldn't even say he started out as one; Rhodey was supporting character until he replaced Tony as Iron Man. They never really had mentor-mentee relationship at any point in the comics. He was the hero's replacement and then became his own thing.

To be fair, there was no magic "off-button" in Age of Ultron. They had to destroy every single one of Ultron's drone bodies so he couldn't escape. But it does suffer from essentially being a retread of the "clone army" from the first movie.

Anytime Chris Pratt does his serious-action-movie-star voice, I can't help but mentally insert Burt Macklin into the movie. It did wonders towards making Zero Dark Thirty less dour.

Star-Lord (ah-ah-ah)
Fighter of the Blueman (ah-ah-ah)

One of the things I've loved most about the MCU movies is their focus on superheroes actually saving people. The first Cap, The Avengers, GotG, and TWS all feature endings driven more by preventing the loss of innocent life than by conflict with the movie's villain.

While I think the script will set the tone more than anything else, given their work on Commnuity, I trust the Russos can do a good job melding melding action and comedy.

This show has had problems with its "CIA authority figure" character since back when Estes on the show. All to often they've simply been used as bureaucratic obstacles to the Carrie/Saul/Quinn dream team. In these past few episodes, you actually believe that Carrie and Lockhart, for all of their previous clashes, are…

I'm with you on the city not necessary being Attilan. One of the recent additions to the Inhumans mythology in the past few years are other hidden Inhuman cities besides Attilan. Thanos' half-Inhuman bastard son Thane (don't ask) is from an Inhuman city called Orollan in Greenland.

I really don't know how you could put First Class as an example of how staying too faithful to the comics results in weaker material. The entire story in that film was invented for it. I don't know what 60's X-Men comics you've read, but First Class bears no similarity to any that I know of.

All this talk of a "different" and "grounded" and "realistic" take on the F4 seems to indicate that no one who worked on this movie understands anything about the appeal of these characters.The Fantastic Four is a pure science fiction pulp action property. What's the point of making this a Fantastic Four movie if you…