Recent content by huser

For me, the broad idea itself isn't that problematic. It's the very real ick that comes from the likely consequences, like Doc Ock using Peter's knowledge, and spider-enhanced body, so a 50+ year old guy can make his move on a 20 something chick without her knowing. It's JUST this side of...

The writers also have to ignore the fact that Superman fights a supersmart, dedicated, rich A-hole willing to do ANYTHING to defeat him, and still, for the most part comes out on top.

You'd think so. But then Frank Miller thought he was clever and all the teenagers that read DKR thought THEY were clever and "grew" up to become the creative staff and Batman morphs from beaming courage at Superman during Crisis on Infinite Earths (because as you've noted what exactly does a man...

Sure, if those criminals can deal with a superstrong and borderline bulletproof fighter with psychic powers second to J'onn, sufficient to turn off parts of their brains (hence why I brought up the Grant Morrison version). Which is why I harp on the groupthink brought on by the Super Friends...

I tend to agree with that sentiment, though then again while the absence of evidence is not evidence for absence the huge preponderance of hetero (insofar various aliens can be classified as such) relationships and love interests in Trek does point to that as a bit weird. Heck, the requisite...

Agreed. At least Dick is. Dude has cut a swathe through the ladies of his gen.

Uggh, strangely another example of a weirdly pervasive trope derived from a single showing flavoring everything that comes after. IE Dark Knight Returns. If we were to lay it out, the first DC character that would pop into your mind with the word "arrogant" PROBABLY wouldn't be Big Blue. You...

But why? What of the character's history, motivations, etc make him "such a lame character?" I mean Grant Morrison's version was pretty much the epitome of badass.

Seriously. I just don't understand how that show has such an effect. It's not like it was Timmverse quality or anything. Heck it took Timm and 30 years to even make SOME elements of that show palatable. It really was terrible even against the backdrop of contemporary DC comics and their relative...

Agreed. For a shapeshifting psychic alien...why would he be hetero or at least exclusively hetero anyways? I parrot hoping it's not Aquaman. Never in the history of anything has something as overall meaningless as a crappy 70's cartoon done more random damage to a 70 year old property. And of...

We REALLY going to throw that stone with Batman sitting over there?

Given he hasn't really MADE anything of any quality since making Greedo shoot first, I'd argue he SHOULD have quit then and the world (or at least the little corner of the cinematic one) would be a better place for it frankly.

Fair enough. Seems like a pretty radical departure to make if you are bothering to go for that. Might as well not set it in DC then. I figured the more logical reason for why the West Coast is better in comparison to the Capital Wasteland is because the quality of people living there... But...

In defense of that idea...Washington IS relatively unscathed. Completely recognizable tourist attractions after two hundred years of neglect and the fall of civilization sorta suggest it WASN'T hit that hard. Heck the wreckage of the White House doesn't even suggest a particularly large...