WTF is “Civil War: The First Avenger”??

Oh crap. Your comment made me realize that Jordan created D-bag Rovell. Meh — “paved the way for”, “created”, “participated in the cultural trends that led to” whatever. I’m sure the lab would have gotten around to creating Rovell sooner or later, but it would have been later in my lifetime.

Yeah, I hear you.

I’ve been a fan of his for over 20 years. He was doing all the “other stuff” that everyone whines about for years. His habits haven’t changed at all. The only thing that’s changed is the attention it’s gotten from people who don’t know any better.

It’s more clear that answering the Internet’s bullshit collective rage is the “fun-less” part of the equation. Doing the writing is, and always has been, a labor of love. It’s never about the money. Fuck the internet’s collective rage, and fuck the attitudes of people who couldn’t write their way out of a wet paper…

Ping Pong table “after coupon”. Where do you get that and where do you input that you have a coupon?

Ping Pong table “after coupon”. Where do you get that and where do you input that you have a coupon?

“Bad guy”? Virginia is decidedly not a “bad guy” or even an antagonist. She may be an anti-hero, if we’re going for labels, but she’s more the protagonist at this point than Vision. It’s such a fantastic series. I stopped reading comics years and years ago, and after Saga got me back, this is the only one I read.

I’ve heard bits and pieces about the quality of the show, but nothing about the content. I started Season 1 and I have barely been able to stop. I’ve never binged so much on a show in my life. Have mostly avoided spoilers, and it’s been fun. I don’t know how they’re going to keep on stretching it, though. How many…

This is entirely plausible. Please do everything in your power to prevent it.

No more frequently that 2-3 times a year.

Which of course is a reminder about the stuff that’s just happened in Princeton, where they decided to keep Woodrow Wilson’s name on the things that had Woodrow Wilson’s name, despite his legacy as a terrible segregationist. I’ve been thinking about this particular issue for awhile now. When do we lionize? When do we…

I made no equivalencies, false or otherwise. I was simply reminded of the essay. Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough in my qualification. My later post should have been clearer.

That’s tough to admit, and true for so many of us.

You’ve made your case fairly well over the course of the discussion. It’s interesting to see how the full picture of your case comes out not in the first post, but over the full range of each response.

This reminds me of Stanley Fish’s essay on Randy Newman’s “Short People” song. Newman was accused of not actually being sarcastic when he was being sarcastic.

You take your goddamn nuance and you get the hell off my Internet, fucko!

Very good points. I just casually mentioned the difference between “taste” and “quality” in a previous comment, and now I think it’s a particularly important distinction for these particular films—not just Ang Lee’s Hulk and Snyder’s BvS, but superhero films in general. In fact, that’s probably the thing about what…

Nice to find someone else who liked it. I would also not call it a “classic” despite my own admiration. That’s the problem with this type of criticism—it confuses taste and quality.

Independent of whatever political philosophy you espouse, it is absolutely insane to say that it’s the union and the league colluding. Collusion is what the 32 separate owners are doing, with the blessing of the U.S. Congress. I know it’s lovely to hate on unions, but a non-competitive market is not in the best…

You will be terrified of their complete lack of terror. Or something.