I’ve only seen a trailer for Jack Ryan, but isn’t the point that he’s a nerd who assesses data and is unwillingly forced into the field? Seems like a weird vehicle for anti-intellectualism. 

Miles was popular because he was a charming and well-written character in a quality film. But does his name being Spider-Man actually matter much? Versus, say, the alternate universe Spider-Men who had slightly different names to account for their different lives. Ghost Spider is a worse name for Gwen than…

What percent of Spider-Verse’s success comes from the fact that Miles is called Spider-Man instead of some other similar spider name? 

Plenty of characters have comics that are more consistently good than Miles’.

There’s that, but I think it’s also that a lot of Miles’ early characterization is built on his reluctance to be a superhero, but the obligation he feels because Peter’s dead. Sort of a Shinji Ikari situation. If Peter’s alive, and no one’s pressuring Miles to be a superhero, and he’s pretty much fine with it, then…

No, I mean Jim Gordon.

At the end of Snyder’s run Bruce had amnesia, so Jim Gordon stepped up as a GCPD version of Batman with a robot suit. I thought it was okay, but a lot of people hated it, understandably.

I was being sarcastic. Both of those times he was replaced were met with massive backlash. Odds are good that this new replacement will face the same backlash, unless they create an absolutely astounding new character out of the gate. It’s not a sign of limited imagination to recognize patterns. 

Even in retrospect the Azrael era wasn’t great, though. When I was doing my readthrough of 90s Batman I skipped basically all of Knightquest. And Superheavy is probably the least popular Snyder Batman arc. No one sits around thinking “you know what I miss? Eric Masterson as Thor”. 

If I’m going to be honest, Miles is kind of bland sometimes, and it’s probably not great for him that you have to call him by name because Peter Parker has such a strangehold on the Spider-Man title. Spider-Verse was good, but his comics are uneven.

Because Azrael and Jim Gordon were both so beloved when they took the cowl.

Sounds like that terrible movie starring Bill Murray’s brother. 

So, realistically, what does this actually do? Do we know the doxxers didn’t have backups of their stuff? And they basically just paid a handsome sum to the doxxers, I assume, so I’m not sure it’s much of a moral victory. 

It’s still presumably the amount of pay you’d get from making a movie in a single go, it’s just spread out differently. And “occasionally going back to the same project” is probably not nearly as good for your career as actually having that project come out now. 

On the one hand, I’ve been pretty happy with the wave of filmed musicals in recent years, we can’t all pay $100 for theater tickets. On the other hand, this is just a ridiculous way to make a musical. Is Merrily We Roll Along even considered one of Sondheim’s best? I haven’t seen it, because again, no film, but all I…

Twenty years’ of work, but split up over a long period, it’s not like it’s handing out continuous paychecks. 

I was hoping for him to actually make a pig knuckle sandwich. 

Good. She’s the only SNL cast member I’m never happy to see show up in a sketch. 

$120 for slippers? Ludicrous. Get the kid a pressure cooker for 70.

$120 for slippers? Ludicrous. Get the kid a pressure cooker for 70.

Ugh. Stretchy powers on a live-action streaming TV program? Sounds like a recipe for disaster, I’m having flashbacks to Reed Richards’ bachelor party dancing in Fantastic Four 2. I’d much rather have a cartoon, although Marvel’s track record with those is spotty at best.