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The very fact that you call it "escapist" fiction shows you need to step back and learn more about how fiction actually works. Fiction is, by its very nature, "escapist." It takes you to a different...

There are other ways to get attention to Thor than give his name to someone else. Heck, you could even punish Thor by making him into a woman for a while instead of making another, less prominent...

No, it's not. Every adaptation has a different relationship with the source material — but it's always one that is tacitly acknowledged at one point. The Flash television series does not once ask you...

Not quite. Fox's Fantastic Four project was announced without the open acknowledgement that the source material is not going to be the launching point for this project, which means the fans will...

No, what I am saying is that the problem is being made specifically to make them not white men, not because the story requires change. Steve's loss of vitality and Thor's failing are sudden moments...

This opinion piece completely misses the point.

Patton's casting as Iris West matches Kreuk's on Smallville: both communicated at the beginning that they were an interpretation of the source...

It's more than that. New Hollywood is pinched between a lack of new ideas for the blockbuster period (when films need to have recognizable names and concepts to get an edge in the highly competitive...

The competition for super-heroines was always about solo films. Go back a year, right before the pronouncement that Wonder Woman was going to be in Superman v Batman and the central push amongst...

See, here I disagree. As much as people want to go on about the gender of the character, what makes Wonder Woman unique in the crowded superhero landscape is the same thing that Aquaman and The Flash...

Sony's plan was never set in stone. They have Garfield signed to three films, and that was always the goal. However, the idea of the Sinister Six didn't show up until midway through the production of...

Supergirl is a spinoff film created because Chris Reeve and Margot Kidder were in the middle of negotiations for higher salaries. But I will grant that it was a female superhero film. Catwoman I...

Marvel's "plan," though, was haphazard at best. The post-credits scene in Iron Man and Incredible Hulk were a way of tying the two films together, but they were an experiment to see if the audience...

Actually, your correction is wrong. Most of the superhero feature films stemming out of the "big two" have had female leads, but they are romantic interests who don't take on the role as active...

The emphasis being on "ideally." We have five months left of stories, which means the new series started in October have to last six issues or be followed by a one or two issue story to fill the gap....

It's a bit more. New 52: Future's End was DC's way of introducing Brainiac for "Convergence," putting the spotlight back on characters that had faded in their own series (Grifter, Lois Lane,...

DC was averaging more in the years before New 52. The "52" of New 52 is actually the amount of monthlies that DC felt it could publish without going off schedule — and they've been fairly close,...

Lobdell has written a lot of good plots — the real problem is that a lot of his stories in the New 52, particularly on Teen Titans, got sidelined by editorial's demand for events and crossovers. Just...

Oh, I agree. But there are those who look at the numbers going down and start crying "the sky is falling." ;)

First, it depends on what you classify as a "Bat" book. Batman, Detective Comics and Batman And Robin certainly are, and we can say that Batgirl, Arkham Manor and Grayson connect to them, but Harley...

So has Marvel. In fact, Marvel has cancelled pretty much every book it had when New 52 launched, and many of those relaunches got relaunched again.

DC's cancellations come from a myriad of...

My problem with it is that, when Bob Harras originally conceived of the Ultimate line, it was to be a self-contained, modernized version of the Marvel universe focused on bringing the characters to a...

It's not just current management. Mark Waid was brought in specifically to do a Silver Age anniversary event even though the majority of readers weren't around in the Silver Age… and some of the...

It's not a stupid marketing move.
For one thing, New 52 is still above what they were before the move, and this is after sliding down under three years of big events and new series launches that...

Well, having lived through the immediate post-Crisis aftermath, I can tell you that saying the previous universes don't exist doesn't sit well with readers either. Personally, I take DC's admission...

Where has this been said? Is there a petition for this??
Personally, I would love if Lobdell became the editor for a renewed teen line book. While many complained about his Teen Titans run at DC,...