So, Jack Kirby left Marvel a little while before and created a chalk white vampire character at DC named Dragorin who was created by a scientist. Inker Vince Colletta was working at Marvel at the same time and it’s documented that he took the original art for Kirby’s DC books to the Marvel offices where Roy Thomas saw…

Hanks is kinda over-doing the accent on Elvis’s manager (who was secretly Dutch but, in real life, perfected a perfectly normal Southern accent so you’d never know he was from the Netherlands); I can’t tell if that’s his choice or the director’s but I feel it’s a bit hammy. Otherwise I was surprised that this looked…

you guys are pure gold. 

Exactly this. To be bemused/annoyed that people don’t want to know the “context” of it- same old shit. 

I really wanted to love that show since I (still) like Manhattan, the leads are all charming and wonderful but I just couldn’t relate to any of the characters because they’re all just sort of rich and perhaps that means I’m bitter at not living in on the Upper East Side but even the victim is a sort of unlikeable…

Gosh, Jennifer Beals looked just like Mabel Normand in that screenshot

It only properly fulfills fan service if Nicholas Hammond appears as the 1970s tv Spider-Man

“Neither look particularly like their subjects, which wouldn’t be a problem if the production weren’t trying so hard to convince us that they do.”- Or, other staff of the AV Club who went out of their way in the initial teaser report to suggest that Nicole Kidman looked exactly like Ball. It’s ridiculous and hilarious…

I always thought people hated Corden because he was rehabbing Sean Spicer and whitewashing his enabling of Trump’s lies. Seriously. I always thought that was a perfect visual example of how quickly the media boils down everything into an us/them rivalry and how all you need do is leave the nest of someone to be…

If people are excited by this, that’s awesome. But stuff like “She eerily does look just like Ball”- this is subjective and not at all true; this is a writer trying to will something into existence because that writer wants it to be. She looks like Nicole Kidman and nothing at all like Lucille Ball (which is fine,…

Literally, Stan Lee wrote in a letter to a publisher that Doctor Strange “Twas Steve’s idea...” and that Stan thought it wasn’t great but maybe they could “make something of it”.. it’s also verified that Ditko created the classic Spider-Man stories entirely, giving them to Lee with margin notes and Stan Lee made up…

Wow, the Guardian looks great. It’s staggering how much Jack Kirby has influenced modern pop culture and yet, so few people know who he is or have bought Disney/Marvel’s necessary corporate narrative to dismiss him as just “an artist”- Kirby created the Guardian in the forties, he crafted Arrow’s origin story, he…

My own theory about beloved superheroes dying every episode is that, just maybe, this is a psychological reaction to superheroes NEVER really dying within their own medium- subject to endless reboots and resurrections, this show gives a sense of actual finality and stakes often lacking from (most) comic book stories.…

I’m very optimistic that there’s more Chadwick Boseman in our future. Kevin Feige didn’t lie he simply said something very specific: “Chad will not be recast or re-created by CGI”. The fact that this was a pleasant surprise does suggest there could be further surprises, even small ones, but I say that completely…

Any service that can grant you access to Kids in the Hall can’t be completely horrible.

Actually, ten months before Marvel’s Wolverine appeared, a fan sent in his creation of a character called “Wolverine” who had- wait for it- a “bionic skeleton”. It was published in Marvel’s Fan Magazine “FOOM” so it’s dated. Also around that time, Jack Kirby introduced a character in Mister Miracle with retractable…

It’s amazing how flippant and open minded Doc Strange seems to being the rules of time and reality now. Guess after coming back from being turned into ash after 5 years caused him to lighten up.

If Nicholas Hammond isn’t in it, will it really count?! I thought his turn in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood would give a nudge of awareness to the first live-action Spider-Man. Having Hammond cameo in this would make it extra fan-servicey. 

I’m surprised this hasn’t been made into a bigger deal yet but Feige just revealed this week that Chadwick Boseman came in multiple times for his voicework recording session and recorded more stuff that Feige then asked Coogler to incorporate into Black Panther 2. It was right here on AV Club. So are we sure this is…

The Armor Wars was a big storyline around 1987-1988 in Marvel in which Iron Man (not dead due to reversing Thano’s snap) goes and claims all his tech which has found it’s way into various super villains. This also brings him into conflict with Cap (who was also not back in time living his life with Peggy, but wearing…