I may well have made the term up. I’ll take the credit either way. ; )

It snuck up on me how much I like 9-1-1. I think I only gave it a peek for Krause and Britton, stayed a bit longer once I saw Minear’s name in the credits, and the next thing I knew it is one of the shows I most look forward to in the DVR. It’s no THE WIRE, but as comfort procedurals go, this one has a lot of heart,…

Apparently the actor wanted out due to be underutilized. You’d think he’d have waited more than three episodes to see if the absence of Rick and Maggie made more oxygen available for his (very popular in the comics) character, but. . .

Running errands and haven’t watched the video yet, but MALCOLM X and Mario Van Peebles PANTHER would be decent candidates, as Angela Bassett played Betty Shabbazz in both.

I wish there were more films that do this. I’m still rooting again all odds for Kevin Costner to reprise Eliot Ness in whatever adaptation of TORSO…

I’ve been going beyond the GREATEST HITS stuff for the first time ever, and am currently besotted with “Love Of My Life”, especially the live version. Just gorgeous:

Can anyone get me out of the grays? I’m a solid citizen on AV CLUB, honest. . .

I’ll be in my bunk.

That ending was weird, but they don’t pop out of a comic. In the Hamm script, Ozymandias’ plot is to kill Jon Osterman via time travel before he becomes Dr. Manhattan (Veidt feels Manhattan’s presence is responsible for the world being on the brink of nuclear destruction). When Manhattan discovers the plot, he agrees…

The scene was embarrassing for more than just the music. In the book, it’s stylized, swelling romance - the beach scene in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. Under Snyder, it’s Cinemax softcore. Even if they kept the Billie Holiday referenced in the book, the way the scene was directed would make it laughable.

The “Xavier-as-MLK/Magneto-as-Malcolm” thing really wasn’t part of the X-MEN book under Stan, though. Magneto was a straight-up blackhat villain then. It was only in Claremont’s 1908s comics that Magneto started to be written as a redeemable extremist instead of EEEEVIL. I think Claremont made the Civil Rights…

I liked all the THOR movies to varying degrees, but I want Thor AS Thor on Earth (not depowered), fighting dudes like The Absorbing Man. For me, the contrast of Thor with mundane Midgard is more intersting than Thor on Asgard or in space. To wit:

Nothing against Chadwick Boseman, but Chiwetal Ejiofor was my preferred Black Panther for a long time. I suppose he aged out of the role, though - at least if you’re introducing T’Challa as newly-crowned.

An onscreen Batman that can convincingly move like his comics counterpart. The “saving Martha” fight is quite nice.

That’s. . . about all I have.

Little to do with the article, but seeing Chris Pine’s name in the same paragraph as THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN makes me think how much better he’d be as Steve Austin than Mark Wahlberg. Nothing against Marky Mark, who is a decent actor and will probably handle the “I’m a FREAK!” angst fine. But I don’t think Austin’s…

Ug. I went through this exact thing many years ago. I managed a half-dozen entry-level employees who all started at $10/hr. Usually they got a $1/hr bump after a year or so. After years of requests by me, I managed to get the starting rate raised to $12/hr. Only one employee had been there even a year at that point…

“Retcon” is short for “retroactive continuity.” Adding detail after the fact certainly qualifies.

And assuming you mean the removal of Spidey and Mary Jane’s marriage, that’s not a retcon. That’s history being changed by magic within the story. Retcons are the work of the authors, not characters in the narrative.

Yeah, one line in the scene on the roof with Lois would have helped. “It was only supposed to be a three-month trip. It took five years because the star-drive failed yadda yadda. . .”

I liked the scene well enough in the theatre, but I ruined it for myself by turning on the subtitles at home.

I don’t know about you, but I could never understand what Routh was saying as he tried to fight back and is dragged away:

I never got implied infidelity. If Jason was, say, a year old when Lois starts dating Richard and they’re engaged four years later, I don’t question that Jason calls him “Daddy.” He was always “Daddy.”

The real question is, does Lois know Superman is Jason’s father before the piano-crushing incident? I’d assume so.…