I think even more-so. Watchmen worked as well as it did as a comic because it did the kinds of things only comics can do - the panel layout, the close-up and then pull back to reveal a change of scene, the addition of prose at the end of each chapter to flesh out what you'd just read, and so on, but the meat of the…

I know, I wanted to be excited, but this was just a blah preview.

Yeah, that's basically what I'm saying. I thought it was a funny scene myself, but if that's one of, say, five portrayals of homosexual people in studio films last year? I can start to see the criticism.

Given the breadth of centuries, even Benedict wasn't all that bad a guy, sure.

Hey, I laughed pretty hard myself. But I'm not an oppressed minority who doesn't get to see myself in every movie or tv show out there.

No one really hates Jack Harkness. We all love him, whether openly or secretly.

It definitely bothered me in the theater (which, actually, the only time I saw the film) that the white lady couldn't show more than filial affection for the black guy.

Well, it could be taken as good natured ribbing if not for the near total lack of any other representation. I think that's the general problem, not the specific instance in and of itself.

It also makes for a poor choice as a preview. The preview pages themselves are a jumble of words and images lacking cohesion or context, only pulled together based on the bloody recap page.

Why that's diabolical!

That's a big IF.

Hey you're back!

As Popes go, Francis seems alright. Granted, that's not a high bar to cross, looking back at everyone between him and St. Peter, but still. It's nice to have a decent human being under that tall hat for once.

"Ah'm nigh-invulnerable when Ah'm shittin'!"

Whither Stevie Hunter?

Planetary is so much about the comics medium itself, I would go out on a limb and say it would not resonate much if adapted to literally any other medium.

I remember my brother buying that special just because the X-Men were in it. Ha-ha, what a dork.

So… Demon Bear, then, right? Has to be Demon Bear.

This doesn't make a lot of sense until you read the recap page.

Both the Siegfried/Sigurd and Ragnar sagas were written down more or less contemporaneously with the Arthuriana, however. How "ancient" they may actually be is open to conjecture.