I don't get "insecure" from Thor, but goofball, definitely.

Don't sell yourself short. If everyone was Chris Hemsworth, you'd be able to hook up with at least one of them.

Yikes. I'm glad that never went anywhere.

I think she said yes to Green Lantern because she said no to X-Men. Kind of like how Sean Connery didn't realize how big being Gandalf would have been.

Well, people have been writing about her on the internet for decades too. It's just now its not just comic nerds and feminists paying attention.

Dick Grayson is Batman 2.0. From the "imaginary stories" that Alfred wrote in the 50s to Morrison's Dick & Damien = Dynamic Duo, the notion that Dick would inherit the mantle has long been established.

Yeah. I've never been an Azzarello fan and nothing I read or heard about made me interested in that run.

Oh, that's unfortunate.

I'm pretty sure Rucka threw that out with the bathwater.

That show just showed how awesome both Spider-Man and Batman are as general concepts by combining them together. That Iron Man cartoon from Nicktoons did the same thing, by turning Tony Stark into Peter Parker.

I would rate Dark Knight Rises more highly if Gordon-Levitt had been explicitly playing Officer Richard Grayson, instead of that weak ass attempt to make him "Robin" at the end. Even without the redbreasted jumpsuit, he was effectively Batman's sidekick throughout the film.

"C for Catwoman." Gets me every time. Every damn time.

I wonder if this video essay mentions the Batman movie that was going to have Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy as Batman and Robin.

Or Aphrodite, or Athene…

I guess you can read it either way (the film is similarly coy with Diana's sexuality), but in the original clay origin it was a bunch of goddesses who got together and brought her to life. No men - especially not sociopathic crazy rapist Zeus - involved.

Holy crap.

Another aside: honestly, I was more put out by the Zeus-based origin than the lack of invisible jets. One of those is a prop, the other fundamentally changes what Wonder Woman is.

It's never been a question why Steve Trevor loves Wonder Woman. But it's always been a question as to why Wonder Woman loves Steve Trevor. I think between Greg Rucka and Chris Pine, we're finally getting a satisfactory answer to that question.

This world is not perfect enough for giant kangaroos and purple rays. I'm happy with what we got.

It's definitely a stringed instrument but not necessarily a guitar. There's a video of Tina Guo playing it with her cello, for example.