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Sure, Snyder hadn't Superman abusing Lois, because that never happened in the 1980s-1990s books Snyder likes (now I have some horrible but hillarious view of Snyder "modernizing" Silver Age Superman...

I don't agree that all the Marvel movies are pure escapism (some of them, sure). I only said that they have a much stronger element of escapism than the DC movies.

Dark, angsty, and ponderous...

Color me surprised...




Anti-hero and darker are not synonimous with thought and complexity. Some of the more trite and thoughtless comics of all time starred anti-heroes. You can have...

I more closely associate Snyder to the 1990s and early 2000s, but I do feel that Snyder borrows less from Superman stories of any time period, and more from that post-9/11 feeling of despair. The...

The nineties were more than just Image Comics and/or Rob Liefeld. It's a more encompassing cynicism that makes people doubt old-fashioned heroes and goes at the heart of this "Superman isn't cool"...

It reminds me of something Alan Moore said when he returned to superhero comics to write Supreme. He first studied the superhero comics being published to see if he could write something similar. And...

Superman has almost 80 years of history. It seems like the panels you posted are all from the 1990s and later. I can't see them now at my work (it blocks photobucket), but I remember it from seeing...

Not all characters need to be versatile. Not all characters need to be Batman. And Batman doesn't always work either (see Joel Schumacher movies). Actually, if you want to mix Superman and Batman and...

There are movies and characters more appropriate to tell meditative stories about aliens on Earth. The Man Who Fell to Earth or Under the Skin or a few others. A Honest Superman movie would be a...

Who's people? I don't remember answering any polls. I like Superman enough the way he is.

To me, superhero movies are so much better when they respect the spirit of the comic they're based on. Yes, Superman has been published for more than 70 years, and there have been all kinds of...

At least you're honest about not liking the more classic Superman. But IMO, it's better if people who actually like the character were involved in making the movies.

I liked Ben and Johnny in the movie. I think the movie captured their essence perfectly.

Sue and Reed kinda suffered. Reed is an effective character in more sci-fi action stories, and the movie...

One of the definitions of the Internet is a place you go to complain about stuff, hopefully with an audience of like-minded complainers.

He is refering to Tim Story's movie. The 2005 movie.

I agree.

And I think it's a mistake to devote a lot of time to the FF origin. Their origin is more of a "let's get it out of the way" origin that does not even take the whole of their first issue....

Yes, it was colorful and fun. The problem was that the movie was too "small", so the comedy element sort of overwhelmed it. It was what I would expect from an Ant-Man movie, and even the actual...

Fantastic Four should be about grand-scale adventure with a side dish of family comedy-drama. So simple, but apparently so impossible for Fox to make it right. No, it's not a pure comedy sitcom with...

I am against the name calling, and I consider myself more in the left-wing anyway, but being offended by images of a woman being sexually assaulted is surely part of the point of the story? Depiction...

You got a point there. :)

But I'd say most comics in the Bronze Age still avoided making mass civilian casualties an explicit thing. So that living in a superhero universe was more like a...

The thing about the whole misogyny issue in comics is that they're actually about analysing trends. The analysis fails when it's just single stories. Obviously, it's pointless to compare one single...

That is because Alan Moore was writing a more philosophical story. The later writers were writing action thrillers. Batman comics are action thrillers first and foremost. In an action story, if the...

I totally agree that stories about nihilist villains trying to prove a point to the heroes have become a huge and tiresome cliche.

But strangely, I arrived at the opposite conclusion about the...

Nah. It's more like Identity Crisis is so bad that it does not even deserve such intense scrutiny. It has been lambasted by a big portion of the fandom almost from the start. It never had the almost...

You explained perfectly why The Killing Joke is a powerful story. But these same reasons are evidence of why it's troubling as a superhero story in a never-ending adventure saga. There is a reason...