I have fond memories of the Beetlejuice cartoon on Saturday morning. The humour went straight for the absurd with scenes like Lydia attempting to use a machine gun, but instead of firing bullets, green sludge comes out of it, because it's an "Oozie" (a play on the Uzi 9mm submachine gun).

My lame claim to fame: I interviewed her for Fangoria magazine when I was covering the movie Sam’s Lake when it was filming about 20 years ago. Very lovely and talented performer, so it’s unfortunate that her performance isn’t going to be seen, but she does get a lot of work, so I can’t feel too bad for her.

The New Testament states that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. But in a submersible vessel implosion, I think that the camel’s pulverized remains can now fit through the eye of said needle.

Outside of Raimi, Gunn, and Waititi, there isn’t a lot of room for auteurs to flex their chops. I’d love to see James Cameron directing Namor or John Woo on The Punisher, but that's not going to happen.

GotG also took a huge risk with relatively unknown characters (a talking tree and a racoon with a machine gun!), but it paid off hugely as James Gunn really knew what he was doing, although that was part of an earlier phase.

They don’t *need* to, but they will if it serves the narrative. One of my favourite issues of the Slott/Allred run was when Surfer performs a tonsillectomy on Dot, his human travel companion, and then she demands the best ice cream in the universe, so Surfer takes her to a planet where jobs are only filled by the one…

Thanks for that. The Great Firewall of China kept me from Googling it. Should’ve figured what the letters stood for as I’m a firm believer in representation. And it's not like they haven't gender swapped characters before. 

Depends on the artist and the era. In the earliest incarnations, Silver Surfer had underwear lines on him, probably at the behest of the Comics Code Authority. I also recall during the Dan Slott/Mike Allred run, Surfer could de-silver himself and take on his original Zenn-Lavian appearance (although I can’t recall if…

Can you do me a favour and ELI5 “DEI”? I’ve been away on vacation for a couple weeks in China and my Internet doesn't work as well as I'd like, so I can't Google it or I'd look it up myself. I'm familiar with "SJW" and "Wokeism", but "DEI" is a new one.

As it is “Cancel Culture” is hardly exclusive to the right, and it’s not even new. Colin Kaepernick got blackballed from the NFL for taking a knee, The Dixie Chicks took a massive career hit after denouncing the war in Iraq, heck, the Beatles got cancelled after they were quoted out of context when they said they were…

Good points in all of the responses, and I wasn’t sure who to respond to, so eeny, meeny, miney...

How is it that when Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor are shown killing on-screen, it is generally not controversial? Captain America is shown firing off guns in The First Avenger and throws henchmen off the helicarrier in The Avengers. Iron Man blows a hole through a bad guy in Iron Man 3. Thor decapitates Thanos…

Doesn’t Deborah Chow’s work directing the entirety of Obi-Wan Kenobi also qualify her for the title of “first female franchise filmmaker”, or is it not regarded as it’s made for streaming?

Somewhat relevant. My apologies in advance, probably NSFW.

I maintain that anything the audience imagines will always be funnier than the official explanation.

I admit that it can often be pretty crass, and there are some really bad offenders (I, Robot, all the recent James Bond films, pretty much all of Michael Bay’s filmography), but when we’re constantly being bombarded with logos and brands in real life, it makes some sense that they would be products used by characters…

They handled the issue a lot more tastefully in the Spider-Island crossover storyline when MJ was delayed from gaining spider-powers due to the many times that she and Peter Parker “shared a toothbrush”.

“It sucked!"

The word you’re looking for is aesthetic. Anesthetic is what they use in the operating room.

I’m a dude in my 40s and I’m looking forward to seeing this. WITH MY DAUGHTER.