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August 10, 2012 12:48 am Agreed. And I could see him as Hawkman...if Hawkman were likely to be in the film.

July 30, 2012 4:33 pm I'm so excited for more Love & Capes! This was a real treat to see pop up on this week's pulls.

June 25, 2012 5:20 pm Jimski, I so appreciate your point of view--it's refreshingly pragmatic.

June 11, 2012 6:30 pm I loved this at WonderCon, and I am excited to watch it again tomorrow! Very complex Superman story indeed...it actually made me uneasy.

June 8, 2012 5:01 pm Oh and, hell yes to Greg Land as Nickelback. Spot on.

June 8, 2012 5:00 pm What makes this a hard question is that we know writers and artists the way big sports fans know pitchers and quarterbacks...I think the angle that's harder to see is the "Who's the comic book artist equivalent of Brett Favre?" as in, someone the average person might actually have heard of, the kind of person who wasn't tearing their hair out over how hard it was to get tickets for San Diego this year. I mean, I know that to me, Francis Manapul is a god, and I know that I've never had a conversation with a comic book fan who didn't at least know who I was talking about, if not agree. But I am pretty sure that doesn't make him a fair answer to this question. I know that within comic book fan circles, I've noticed people going crazy with anticipation over a new title by Darwyn Cooke, Amanda Conner...does that make them the right answer? Or is that still just inside our world?

May 22, 2012 3:20 pm Part of what makes the Smallville storyline have so much lasting impact is that he bears the guilt of knowing that he essentially (granted, unknowingly) chose Lana's life over his father's. He's known for a while that someone close to him would pay the price of bringing Clark himself back to life early that season after his time as a mortal, and when Lana dies, Jor-El tells him he has the ability to take this event back, but that he can only do that once, ever. So he does, but he's still got the "someone close to you" bit hanging over his head, and now that it's not Lana, it becomes Jonathan...and he'd already used his one reversal. Plus, the origin of Jonathan's heart trouble was his choice to take power from Jor-El in order to save Clark back in S3, and that was just because of Clark's self-pitying Red K binge, so the guilt Clark bears in Smallville over his father's death is massive, multi-layered, and so powerfully portrayed. The fact that he then can hardly bring himself to look at Lana makes their entire relationship a sad casualty of his guilt as well--he can't enjoy being with the woman for whom he sacrificed his father's life...and of course he can't tell her anything about it, so she suffers in such confusion and loneliness, giving her character one of the first real arcs she ever got to have. QED, I'm in agreement: Smallville wins.

May 15, 2012 1:49 am Christopher Judge is the perfect Luke Cage. There was even an episode of Stargate that could practically serve as a screen test for it (season 8's Affinity). He's got the bulk for it, and he definitely has the range and the screen presence to pull it off.

May 7, 2012 3:23 pm Smallville Season 11 issue 1 was such a wonderful gift. I could hear all the actors' performances happening in my head, because the writing was that consistent (of course, Bryan Q. Miller!), the art was that faithful, and I know the series that well. That was the single issue highlight of my year so far.

May 7, 2012 3:05 pm I actually loved every hero in this movie more than I liked them in their own movies (exception: Thor, whom I completely loved in both). And I love that the way Hulk was used in this film sets him up for a better chance at succeeding in his next solo film. Though I did really enjoy the Incredible Hulk, and I hope they still use The Leader (that was great casting too).