lukehopkins

May 14, 2012 6:36 pm it's a 9, it has a light feel but it's intense in terms of plot and nods to fans. Young Justice is about 11, it's a darker show, more menace to the characters, and maybe a bit more complex in the plot.

May 14, 2012 6:33 pm Was this the time when he was secretary of defense?

May 9, 2012 3:32 am I loved the movie but I see a flaw in the next one already. I think the thing that made this work was Loki as the villain with his relation to Thor. It made the drama in some way related to the team and helped connect all the dots together. I can't help feeling they put thanos in this movie as a cock block to dc if they were ever to make a JLA movie and want to use darksied. Now DC kinda can't because the two characters are so similar I'm appearance and motivation. It would look like copying the other guys and no one wants to see a knock off when they can get the real thing. ( funny thing is in the comics this whole thing is reversed, but marvel got out the gate before the WB could get its pants on.) good for marvel but it's sad in a way because darksied and apocalypse would have been amazing to see realized, and I thing is more compelling than thanos. Thanos has very little tying himself to this universe that is being built and to tell his story you have to pull away from other great avengers things with no gain to the universe they are buliding. He's a powerful bad guy, but less meaningful than ulitron ( if you do ulitron you can do vision, hank Pym and wasp ) the masters of evil ( wonder man, general character development from having to fight nemesis and it'd be easy to build that with the other sequel films being made.) AIM would be cool to see if only to see Hollywood try and do MODAK. Point being I don't see Thanos adding anything to this story outside of being a powerful bad guy who prevents us from seeing a more menacing bad guy from another company. I want better than Thanos.

May 2, 2012 1:20 pm Each is an individual case. Damian Wayne, most certainly not, he lacks the moral drive. Tim Drake is smart enough, but lacks the money and i would say is less of a physical threat. Terry comes close ( it helps that Terry is a clone) but still he lacks as much of the situation and the drive, it being something he stumbles into by design, Wayne choosing to be the Bat and create himself as the bat adds to the whole drive thing, (think Apple without Steve Jobs, still shiny and nice, but there is an X factor in the creator). Dick comes closest, he has the drive from his parents death and he was raised into it, made his own name as Night wing, I think his weak point would be in the IQ area, but if your looking for how close we can get he's the best choice.

May 2, 2012 1:01 pm Disagree, but it looks that way. It's true Batman is just a construct but he is the construct of Bruce Wayne. The Batman isn't the Iron Man suit that can just be put on and fired at things, it's the sum of experiences and skills of Wayne, the pain that drives him to do this and the physical, finical, and mental resources that allow him to be the bat. What the Batman is outside of the story, the reason that we find him (and James Bond) so interesting, is that he is a "Man with Full Agency", meaning he is able to do all the things that man capable of doing, he is man at his most effective. He is only able to be this thing because of who Wayne is, what Wayne has in IQ, physical ability, drive, and wealth. Take any one of those things away and Batman doesn't work. You can dress a man up as Batman, but that doesn't make them Batman.

April 28, 2012 2:08 pm Who was the deep voiced black guy commanding the team by the way? Was that maybe aqua-lad?

April 28, 2012 1:55 pm This show is so deep with DCU stuff it might be better than Avengers EMH, but that's coming from a guy whose read these books since '97. I wonder how this plays with people who don't know the universe as well.

March 24, 2012 6:56 pm "Guy Gardner? NO!" Make milk come out my nose.

March 10, 2012 2:51 am Just saw it and the best way to describe it is: It's the second Star Wars trilogy, but done well, and with superman as the hero instead of a Jedi. Also if we ever get Wolverine going completely berserk like we all would really like to see, it should look like the fights in this film.

February 1, 2012 4:02 pm An Open Letter to Alan Moore. With greatest respect to you and to your work, and also with a great understanding of why you would be upset about the now inevitable prequels to your landmark work of Watchmen, you did this to yourself. You took yourself out of the game, out of pride and a desire for freedom and respect, but in doing so you also made yourself irrelevant. You've made it quite well known by now that there will be no approval on your end of anything that anyone else tries to do with any of your works. You've taken a stand, but you've done so with no cards in your hand, so all the big corporate creators need to do is ignore you to make money. As we all know corporations exist to make money, so be assured you will be ignored. I've no doubt in my mind that you hate this, but there is a way that you can beat this problem. I gather from your comment that you see this work, and maybe all your cannon of work, as akin to the works of Herman Melville or some other master. Most would agree with you in that assessment, and this affront to your work, by being lumped in with other creators who had no more involvement in the work than being fanboys could seem to cheapen what you've done. There is nothing you can do to stop this, it will happen and it will make a lot of noise and money. What you can do is out shine their efforts. Create something better than they will, tell those same stories, but do it the way you would envision it. In the annals of history where all great works rest, they are not the property of their publishers, but of their authors, and the words of the author have final stay on the work as it is viewed in the sitting rooms and lecture halls of the future. If others want to tell those tales then let them do it, but if you tell a better tale, one that fits, one that is resonant, then you will be the one who is remembered. I'm not saying they will see publication in your lifetime, but if those things exist they will at least be your voice on the subject. Best wishes. LAH