Agreed. There's nothing all that inspiring about a billionaire beating up criminals just to work through his anger issues.

Red Son was a fun little diversion, but it really felt like Millar googled 'Cold War' and then just switched everything around. Nothing that Superman does really feels like a natural extension of socialism, or a critique of Superman's role in capitalism in the mainstream comics.

Personally, I disagree - the Superman as messiah is one of my least favourite takes on the character. I think there are two ways you can properly handle Superman: as a god or as an alien, and they're both kinda mutually exclusive. If you want to play him up as a god, then he's a singular being - (almost) all-powerful,…

Man, I don't know that I would rather live in a world with DKR than without the things it inspired. It may be a symptom of never having experienced the world of comics before the mid-1980s, but having read Miller's work well after it was getting reprinted near constantly in deluxe hardcover tomes, I have always found…

I'm really glad for Cold War week and for this article. The Soviet Union was such a fascinating mess of contradictions, and to see how that kind of society imagined its own future is pretty cool.

I get that. But where I think Watchmen has held up and maybe even grown as a culturally significant piece of art since the 1980s, Miller just slides further and further into the toilet.

There was also a good article on io9 or somewhere similar that pointed out that the only way Superman can ever lose is by the invisible hand of the comic book writer fiddling with the rules of the battle, and that in any event, we should always root for Superman anyway.

I feel like all of us are still paying some terrible price for thinking that Frank Miller's work was cool. The chickens are coming home to roost, people.

'Man of Steel' plays like Zack Snyder is trying his hardest to make a Christopher Nolan movie for two thirds of its running time before finally giving up and just saying "Fuck it! Let's have Superman kill someone already!"

I think if those characters really have moved to being the core of the show, then it's probably the right call to pack them off into their own vehicle and allow Agents of SHIELD to quietly die. At this point, its original mission - to give insight into what SHIELD actually is and how it operates - has been over since…

That's kinda true of every gadget guy/girl in every TV show ever though, isn't it? I mean, even the Abbie the lab technician on NCIS can hack NATO or whatever like it's no big deal. And on Battlestar Galactica, which aimed for as much realism as was possible in a show about humans from space fighting robots from…

Man, I love Dune. The first book specifically - I feel like they go off the deep end the further you go into that series, and the less said about all those prequels, the better. I kinda wish HBO would take it on, but I'm guessing it's far too close to Game of Thrones for that to ever happen.

Did you really pull of a heist if you got arrested pretty soon afterwards?

Placing two spaces after a period does look better on the page, and every legal style guide should reflect this. I'm with you, D&M.

Since regular church attendance in the UK is something like 10 or 15 percent,* wouldn't the safer bet have just been to carry on to Heathrow?

It's hotter down south.

It tied with Sicario for me personally, but they didn't even nominate that film so Fury Road all the way.

I liked the brief period between Seth MacFarlane being announced as host, and Seth MacFarlane being host, where we were all asked to pretend that Seth MacFarlane would be a good host.

I guess I just don't get the point of this show. It's not very interested in exploring the past - in previous episodes, the team went to a private bank in Lepzig in 1975, even though that city was in East Germany where swanky private banks were a pretty big no-no; and to the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the…

On the whole "retroactively ruined" point - I dunno. I'm not saying the finale wasn't terrible, because it was. I'm questioning whether the show was actually all that good to begin with. Ted was a dingus the whole way through, and drawing attention to it (as they did more and more from about season 4 onward) just made…