I prefer to regard the Ang Lee movie as never having happened.

If this Avengers film does well, then here's the Marvel film slate I'd like to see follow:

I don't think a mothballed naval vessel could be brought online and made serviceable at the pace necessary for alien invasion crisis management. But whatever.

Okay, but couldn't they have come up with a better label than "witch"? Witches and warlocks are the stuff of saturday morning Scooby Doo cartoons at this point; how anyone can say, "We're all witches, Cassie." with a straight face is beyond me.

When does this movie take place? Cuz, unless history is being re-written, there would be no American battleships in the fleet for the story.

I'll never understand how anyone can claim to like these movies with a straight face. And I don't trust (the opinions of) anyone who believes they are actually "good" films. Roger Corman has taken better dumps than these steaming piles of vacuous cinema.

I kinda liked the whole storyline idea of everyone competing and prepping for a mission to Titan. It gave a very serious and grand scope to the episode they showed at Comic-Con.

I would expect this issue to be treated no differently than in, say, The Ultimates. There were a lot of normal-level infiltration and investigation missions that were given to Hawkeye and Black Widow because that was what they specialized in. A lot of what goes on when a mega villain plots to take over the world…

I wish I had the resources, the time, and the skills necessary to build a new Comic-Con. Alas I don't. I am not convinced, however, that even if I did, that the new con would become what Comic-Con was 10-12 years ago without also losing its focus in exactly the same way shortly thereafter. Our pop culture pabulum has…

I don't really care if GoT fans gripe because their non-comic-book tv show isn't represented at a comic-book convention. The same goes for Glee fans, and Dexter fans, and Community fans. Let them feel excluded; we gotta trim the herd somehow. The general sci-fi/fantasy fan population has plenty of conventions,…

I don't think the "Where are the comics?" lamenters object to all non-comic-book content at Comic-Con. I imagine most of them are like me in that they are fine with movies, tv, and video games that are either adapted from comics or are about costumed superheroes. It's not about the medium, per se, it's about the…

What is the weapon slung over Sola's back supposed to be? It can't be the Tharkian lance because those are 40 feet long.

The Potter series got grown-ups who hadn't picked up a book, or prose fiction of any length, in years. They became vital watercooler discussion material in offices around the world, and any adult who didn't want to seem hopelessly out of the loop had to buy into Pottermania. The more recent adult obsessions with books…

Grant Morrison had Batman creating a fantasy "backup personality" for himself in case he ever got drugged and driven over the edge.

Star Wars is science fantasy. Basically, fantasy wrapped up in sci-fi dressing. How do we know? Lightsabers. The Force. Traveling past light speed. That is all magic, not science.

1. I'm so glad Jackson is doing these. It just seems...right and proper. And I just know the end result will be magnificent.

That Sentinel is almost as cool as last year's 18" Galactus figure.

Meh. Talk to me again when you discover a fish that makes its own tools.

I don't want it to be just comic books, per se. I like other media. I just think that the content of any media presentation should be based on comic books or comic book adaptations or costumed superheroes. I don't mind the movie studios giving presentations in Hall H for movies adapted from comic book characters. But…

DC has yet to prove that they can build a successful movie franchise on any character other than Batman. Even Superman has been mis-handled rather impressively over the last twenty years. How can DC be expected to do team movies, period, when they can't even crawl out of the Batman box?