Dread

Todd McFarlane was the last time I bought Spiderman not including Millar's recent run. I don't mind his art. Not fantastic. It was great at the time but soon lost favour with me. That's not why I dislike this art and I don't find it that Mcfarlane-esque except for the webbing.

I was with Cap the whole way through the series and still am. I've placed enough blame on Stark. As far as the other stuff: "can be explained" is not a vindication. I still think that Peter should be to blame for falling into a situation he knew was bad. You can't tell me that even after his genius would be infiltrated by emotions that his Spider sense didn't pick it up. It'sd inconceivable to me that he can make a decision of that magnitude without knowing all of the angles. Regardless of whether or not Stark even said he'd protect his family, Spiderman has to know that Stark can't protect them entirely. It's ridiculous. I too am a Quesada fan. I think his run with Smith on Daredevil cements him as one of the character's great artists. here he dropped the ball though.

Peter Parker is a genius. Manipulation is no excuse. He had enough foresight to disable Tony's control over his suit, what about Tony's control over him? He knew of the manipulation from an early stage. Why then, did he unmask when he knew he couldn't trust Tony as far as he could throw him? It's got holes big enough to drive helicarriers through.

The leg thing, yes it's there but if he were flying like that he wouldn't be going ina straight line like he's depicted. In every other pic he's got them together. It's inconsistent. The art is done. Good. Still doesn't make it good art in my books. The father figure thing. It's a stretch at best. It was Peter's choice to unmask publicly and in doing so made his bed. Why does he think everybody else has to sleep in it? It's irrational. Power and responsibility is what this character's about. Take responsibility for your actions, then! JMS? Ugh.

Meh. He should stick to EIC. He's doing a pretty damn good job of that. Page one, panel 2, IM is missing a leg. Is an editor too afraid of pointing that out to his boss or is the art so close to being late that they'll take it anyway? Why am I expected to believe that Spidey blames Iron Man for anything? Spidey followed the rule of law and did what he thought was right. He voluntarily, without prodding, gave up his identity in front of the world and now he has a mad-on for Iron Man. Who's writing this? JMS?

Dem's fight'n words, suh! Sorry but Spiderman isn't even an interesting character to me. I stopped reading him when I was 12. That said, Kraven's Last Hunt is still the greatest story Marvel's published to date and the Spidey movies are amazing even with Kirsten Dunst. Sorry Mike but I can't see you digging on Eaglesham when stuff like that is getting published. There are several perspective problems in that preview alone not to mention the inconsistency with the armor and the look of Parker. How could they have fallen into an alley like that without completely dsestroying the fire escape? The art bugs me. I'll look forward to the story being spoiled on the show though

I thought this was going to be a time travel thing. I don't know, it's interesting enough but that art is butt-ugly. Not my bag at all.

Done and done! Actually, James' Street Fighter review gave me an idea of reviewing the lamest of the lame. It gives me a chance to vent and hopefully have some comedic value. Maybe I'll do both.

The show is rocking this season! Due to a rertarded VCR, however, I missed the last episode (Locke's return). Somebody do me a solid and summarize it for me?

I forgot all about the Gaff Morgan episode! Loved it guys, well done. To be honest I wasn't so sure if I was going to follow this podcast but it's delivered succinctly, analytically but not overly so and with a great chemistry. Kudos.

I watch JL with my older son as he drinks a bottle. We both got a great kick out of the Booster Gold episode when he's accepted that he and Elongated Man are left out to do crowd control. EM just gets through telling him how he went on stakeout for three days shaped as a vase. When GL pops back to recruit EM instead of Booster, Skeets says: "Maybe they needed a vase." I laughed so hard my kid started howling with laughter too. Good times. With all the heavy shit going on in those episodes it's easy to forget the hysterically funny writing. Batman singing for Circe comes to mind as well.

<clap clap clap> Well done, sir. Inspiring. I now want to trash a few movies myself. What a festering cinematic abortion this piece of shit film was. Rest in piece Raul indeed.

I can't imagine a better moment than the battle between Supes and Darkseid in the last JLU.

One showing per theatre as opposed to two or three? A three hour + movie gets little play at the box office. I think it didn't live up to the hype. Reviews were split from day one but the people rushed to the theatres right away to see a Tarantino film and got something else altogether. It's not the right climate for a film like that. Too many people went to that movie and came out of it with nothing but confusion and word spread quickly. I have to agree partially with Weinstein, it's not the right culture right now for Grindhouse to be packaged the way it was. I still don't support it's split. Leave it as a flop and get it back on a fully packaged DVD. That's just me.

I find that very interesting, I've never heard someone say they like LA better. Besides production value there is little to distinguish them but, unlike Evil Dead 2, it promotes itself as a sequel whereas anybody who'd seen ED2 would know it was the movie Raimi liked so much he made it twice. Personally, I think he wasted his time. Although I find it superior to LA as the establishment of an iconic cult hero, I'm not against a remake. Well not anymore than I'm against remakes altogether. You may not like what I have to say next week

I'm not at home with my iTunes so...stupid question time!!! Is this on the E2 feed?

I can't wait. Besides Planetary and Nextwave, Ellis' best stuff has been Avatar stuff. One of the best independant publisher around if you ask me and I'm not saying that because I have an outstanding pitch.

Done and done!

Damn! I've got to wait for this episode seeing as I won't be able to read 52/WW3 for another week or so. I'm assuming spoilers...

Thanks James! It was fun to write. And to fill out a request for Mr. Sims. I'm not sure what I'm doing next. Ideas are always welcome...

It was fun. My brain's still leaking out my ears! I went light on the final girl thing because I've got something else cooked up.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2...es_N.htm?csp=34 Better than Kevin Costner as the brother (that's a film I would not go see). If Edgar Wright says the script is good (latest CHUD podcast) that's enough for me.

I disagree. Myers should be able to be anybody behind that mask. That's what makes him scary. He's either a deranged killer or your dad trying to scare you. On another note: THEY GOT THE MASK AAAAALLLLLLLLL WRONG!!!!!! I don't purport to be a director regardless of how much I'd love to do it but how can I trust this film when they got the EASIEST thing to do completely wrong. A fanboy does not a good director make.

Due to the pisspoor box office, Weinstein is calling Grindhouse's presentation a mistake. He does not account for the absolute North American retardation of an inability to understand the term "double feature." The plan, if you haven't heard, is to split the films for European release and DVD sales. Who here would buy a single Grindhouse DVD? I haven't seen it but would buy the Grindhouse DVD with both films and trailers. I wouldn't bother to rent both films if they were released in singles. I'm lukewarm on both. Planet Terror seems a lot like Slither (a movie I hated) even with Rose MacGowan as a stripper with a gun for a leg and Tarantino is a self-indulgent hack director who happens to be a good writer. I do, however, like Kurt Russell. On their own, no chance. Together, yes. You?

Love it! Norton's the best actor of our generation.