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I guess it makes sense to not use Abe and Liz to distance it from the past two movies, I feel like they could have done a soft reboot with Johann here and it would've worked.  And yeah, they showed it, it's apparently at least going to figure into the climactic battle and it appears to be more of a chaotic good thing her in the movie than the very very very bad thing it was in the B.P.R.D. book.

Oh wow, they're just coming out front with Daimio's secret?  I guess they needed to do something to make up for the lack of Abe.

Uh-oh, nobody better tell the internet that there's a girl in it.

Yeah we'll see if any of this shit matters in a year (prediction: it won't)

Jimmy Hudson was the only non-Miles Morales element of the Ultimate Universe I mourned when that brand died.  I wouldn't mind Dakken if they'd find a consistent read on what kind of character he is, is he a murderous queer-baiting sociopath or just a lovable murderous bastard?  Sabretooth gets more consistent characterization than that.

Hey, at least the X-Kids had a narrative going, they even brought Jimmy Hudson and Bloodstorm into the 616 (both to be unceremoniously killed, but whatevs) and they managed to make Scott and Jean interesting and likeable for the first time in decades (not to mention Iceman, whose solo book I neglected to mention above, though it got bogged down in bullshit when Dakken showed up)

I don't even necessarily want a return to status quo.  No mansion, no baseball games, just something other than a greatest hits compilation paraded out for 20 issues.

I've got a great idea for an X-men book.

What if... every single fucking X-man isn't in it and the world isn't about to end from an omega level threat?  What if the mansion doesn't get destroyed and there's not some massive new world order that has to be contended with?  Is it impossible to tell a small serialized story with the X-men anymore because I have been reading every X-men book dutifully since Secret Wars and holy fuck it's just a bunch'a white noise.  Those Cyclops and Gambit books were fun and the X-23 book has been mostly enjoyable but most everything else is like Bendis-era Avengers where it's just a rotating conveyer belt of every writer's favorite characters dealing with every major bad guy of their childhood (sometimes simultaneously across separate books) and it just feels like nothing matters.

Post-credits should just be Deadpool sweeping up

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHICH FUCKING MOVIE THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT ANYMORE

I think people are getting caught up with the pre-hiatus murder spree.

I mean, we've gotta be in the homestretch at this point, right?  I'm running out of room on my heart for all these wicked daggers.

Identity Crisis was to DC what the Ultimate Marvel imprint and stuff like MAX was to Marvel, it was a necessary step to growing up, it doesn't hold up AT ALL, but it was an important part of the process.  Much like The Killing Joke I think it works waaay better as a self-contained one-shot divorced of continuity than just a random super dark spot in the canon.  But yeah, its approach to making superheroes more "adult" was hacky and extremely juveneille in a lot of ways, especially where women and sexualized violence are concerned.  At leas, unlike The Ultimates, very few people sing Identity Crisis' praises these days.

4 hours ago, The NZA said:

ehhh ghostbusters 1 is like MJ to my childhood, i'm too close to see if it'd be as timeless for others, but it was really unique & came together in such a great way that you wanted to forgive 2.  i'd definitely say see the original and if it doesn't do it for you, stop there.

And that's a fair take, if you watched it as a kid or it just hit you at the right time it feels powerful and it's such a singular weird hodgepodge of voices and ideas that it adds up to something special but Ghostbusters is a cult movie like Highway to Hell or Nothing But Trouble with the trappings of a slobs vs. snobs comedy.  It's pretty light on jokes and the few it has only really work because of how they're delivered and while the special effects are truly great and fairly numerous they're pretty much the b-plot behind all the dull William Atherton and half-baked romance plots.  Ghostbusters is a more a vibe than a movie and if you're not tapped into it from the beginning it's kind of bewildering to see the movie from the outside in.

Curb your expectations, Ghostbusters is neither as funny or as cool as people lead you to believe, it's a fun weird '80s move that became a cultural phenomenon because of a catchy theme song and a cartoon show.

I've been reading it.  It's not the height of the book (the first to volumes of the Flash Thompson run, didn't really care for Venom Spaceknight all that much) but it's one of the better Venom books I've read and I like how Cates is bringing together all the disparate threads like the Klyntar stuff from Guardians of the Galaxy and the Cthonic cult stuff from Tomb of Carnage (probably the best Carnage book ever written.) With the exception of the Cain Scarlet Spider series this has been my favorite Spider-Man spin-off book in recent years.

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"I'm literally writing the Cable and the Deadpool and the Shatterstar of my youth."

So the bad versions, then?

Bold design choice "What if Deadpool had a helmet?"  I like that he drew a full body shot complete with feet just to clap back at the haters.

It's very much Amblin inspired.  Basically it's the movie Monster Trucks, but with considerably better writing and a more enjoyable lead.  There's shades of E.T. and The Iron Giant along with some love for the old Transformers cartoons but a version that's actually more akin to what you remember in the nostalgia nodes of your brain and not the shabby reality of cheaply produced animation.  It's a small movie, there's really only 3 robots in the movie aside from some extras at the beginning and end and it's very much about the human characters.  Basically imagine the first movie but only the first act without all the weird Michael Bay stuff.  It's very solidly made, there's some good supporting cast members in John Cena and Pamela Adlon and Hailee Steinfeld really proves that she deserves more leading roles.

Hoof, this place is hot-take city.

Re: The Make-up.  Of course it looks worse, Hellboy was made by Guillermo Del Toro who is probably the most fussy human being in the film industry about practical effects and while Neil Marshall is also a big practical effects guy (the werewolves in Dog Soldiers are still probably the second best on-screen werewolves in cinema history) he's never going to measure up to that visionary masterwork that is a Del Toro production.  Also, from what I understand, this doesn't have nearly the budget that Del Toro's films did.  Harbour has the same basic facial structure as Perlman, so I don't know why they put so many prosthetic applications on his face itself but it mostly seems to work in motion.

Animal Man is fucking great from the jump, it's solid from top to bottom.  Your only barrier to entry is the title.

I would say that Miracle Man and Swamp Thing (and the unmentioned but also quite great Captain Britain) are all great but there's definitely a barrier for entry because you have to read a few issues before you start to realize why these books are so beloved.

Yeah I would say my number one complaint was that Baby Driver just wasn't very fun.

I enjoy both of their work but I've never found either one to be talented enough to put up with their weirdo diva bullshit.  They're both pretentious capital a assholes.  I do agree with Grant Morrison's assessment (and re-assessment) of Watchmen.  They're both extremely hit and miss but those hits are soooooo good you can ignore the misses whenever they don't feel the need to speak to the public.

I mean, yeah it's dumb but that's not why I don't like it.  I don't like it because its titular character is an unlikeable dweeb and the story is pretty weak overall.  Edgar Wright exceeds at directing complex action-packed comedy, so why he chose to direct a mostly-serious action movie with 8 jokes is beyond me.  It was alright but I certainly don't understand why people championed it so much.  I mean if you're going to do a movie that's sold on diagetic music you can surely at least get a more memorable soundtrack.

Thing is different so therefore thing must be bad

I find it amusing that people are uaing Detective Pikachu as a counterpoint to this since that trailer features many Pokemon rendered with grotesque realism when all we have so far is a silhouette and a set of legs.  Y'all aren't even organic webshooter skeptics you're those people complaining about Wind Waker screenshoys.

Hey maybe wait to see it in motion before writing it off.  All versions of Sonic objectively look like shit in still-life, or are you trying to stump for the OG fat baby with stick legs?

Oh no he has muscle tone, the movie is ruined