It sounds like the movie amplifies the book's worst tendencies by focusing heavily on the narrative (which is fine, but a bit conventional) and failing to capture the elegance of Eggers' writing. The book is sometimes a bit of a checklist of all the sorts of things you'd expect in a story about an American out of his…

Not to mention that even though this article does mention 'Mr Spritz Goes to Washington', the author sanitizes its content of partisan political satire to suit his own thesis. That's an episode where Krusty opportunistically runs as a Republican, gaining sympathetic coverage from Fox News. It's not just some empty…

Author of the book Only Turkeys Have Left Wings, fierce critic of the Dumb-ocrats and their smell-fare programs.

Even in that episode, though, the whole "all sides of politics are the same!" humour gave way pretty quickly to kicking around ol' Dick Nixon.

The idea that The Simpsons transcended partisan satire by dodging labels requires a pretty selective recollection of the show's history. It means you have to gloss right over one of the show's most clearly political episodes, 'Sideshow Bob Roberts' in which Mayor Quimby (referred to above in no detail at all) is…

I liked this show, but it felt as if it was as realistic a depiction of international arms trading as CSI is of forensic science.

I really like the idea that, just as Bane apparently exists for real in 30 Rock, the Penguin is somewhere out there in Kimmy Schmidt's New York.

So many questions…

He tried really hard not to make a Zack Snyder movie in Man of Steel and he ended it with Superman causing about ten 9/11s at once. They'll need to be more specific.

Also, I guess I take no issue with the idea of a plausible-deniability suicide team, but if Chicago has been devastated by some kind of terror attack, don't you probably want to make a big show of going in and cleaning up?

Every trailer seems like it's for a different movie, which doesn't seem like a very good sign.

GRAND ADMIRAL BEN MENDELSOHN! ITS EVERYTHING I DIDN'T KNOW I WANTED

Like this clown could do a better job than the brains behind American Pie.

I never understand why Batman always needs to be eternal. Like, maybe one of the storytelling opportunities presented by such a wild departure from in-universe history is that there is no Batman to "check" Superman in any way, and maybe that's more interesting than always trying to shoehorn in an orphan who likes bats.

That's a good comparison point. I feel like Millar came up with "Stalin, socialism and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact", patted himself on the back and called it a day.

I like The Killing Joke too, but I don't think I can criticize TDK for ageing terribly and not acknowledge that there's also a bit of an issue with The Killing Joke.

All great comebacks for whenever some idiot tells you "there's no way to make a good Superman story"

Yeah. TDK is worth remembering because it obviously had an impact on the medium. But that doesn't make it good art, and I feel that it's aged terribly. Maybe it was deep(er) for the time, but compared to Watchmen (or The Killing Joke, even accepting its problematic elements, to stay in Batman territory), it's a tough…

Agreed. One of the more interesting aspects of Superman is that his heroism is innate, rather than the result of some trauma. Here is a guy who would happily live in obscurity, but helps knowing that if he doesn't, no one else will.

Yeah. With Watchmen, I felt that Snyder didn't really get the comic. With DKR, I feel like he had a pretty good instinctual handle on what he was doing.