The Unholy Dragon

Part of it is that manga style art makes me read right to left but also the 2nd/3rd panel placement being weird makes this look like Spider-man SUPER DRAMATICALLY turning into Peter Parker.

Man. J.T. and I have the exact same score and breakdown. If this were purely Box Office we'd be first and second but we are clearly TERRIBLE at the RT side of things.

I was hoping for that which is why seeing "In theatres Friday!" on top of the board each login is such a particular middle finger.

No idea why but I've been on a Mark Millar Hoopla binge. Finally read Kick Ass 3 and it was probably my favourite after the original. Kick Ass remains a concept I should hate but have really enjoyed all said. Then I read Huck and boy howdy that is probably the best thing Millar has written. Certainly my favourite take of Superman that he's done since leaving DC. Well, outside some talk about Huck being 'slow' which aside from the disabled savant trope being weird as hell, he's never really actually written as having any sort of impairment so much as just being kind of average intelligence and quiet. It's a real weird choice. But everything else about the book is just great. As far from a typical Mark Millar book as you can get yet still having his voice and Rafael Albuquerque's art is perfect. Must read.

Anyone else who ranked it too high getting Happytime Murders ads in the board to taunt you?

LGBT or LGBTQ is pretty well accepted as shorthand as long as it's understood the rest is still there.

Scuttlebutt is that they'll be doing an X-23 in Logan deal with Cassandra Cain too.

She's got some shade from the LGBT community too, both for being kind of a safe choice (less her fault) but also for behavioural stuff like outing Demi Lovato and hanging with Floyd Mayweather despite him being well known as an abusive creep, plus some other criticisms. Just little bits of bad behaviour that individually would be kind of whatever but come together to form a more problematic whole. In terms of her acting, Kate Kane falls under the Batman rule where as long as she can do stoic she'll be fine enough for the most part.

Man. Psylocke as a British woman in a Japanese body has been problematic forever, but considering the character has since developed a pretty heavy Asian American following and is super popular in that incarnation, I can't see that change going over particularly well.

Watched "The Babysitter" on Netflix the other night, and damn did they ever nail that perfect self-aware slasher sweet spot. Great character, lots of genuinely clever bits (The blood spray running gag is great) and a bunch of quality actors scene chewing as the villains (though Robbie Amell comes close to stealing the movie). Check it out if you have 90 minutes to kill. Also finally watching the No End House season of Channel Zero. I love that episode 4 feels like it could have been an ending and I'm expecting the last two to get pretty wild. I liked what I've seen of Candle Cove (half finished it and now need to rewatch the first half to finish the second, wife hates rewatching so it's down to me watching on my own to get back to where we were at to finish it) but No End House hits a lot harder a lot faster and has some pretty great surprises as it goes. The only problem is that

Whoa how did I climb 12 spots what the fuck did everyone else get so wrong?

I actually think most of the Return of Wolverine minis have been pretty good, Claws of a Killer being the one that's sort of meh. The problem is more that they put out sixteen issues labelled 'Hunt for Wolverine' with everyone knowing damn well they weren't going to find him in any of them.

And again, between Golden Age Batman/Superman reprints and the forthcoming Detective Comics books there is PLENTY of racist imagery going around, including with bigger franchises for them. But there's also a lot more Super/Bat collections for people to trip over I guess.

The running gag with Banshee genuinely felt like something I'd never expect from a non-Deadpool mainstream franchise The Dazzler stuff was good too even if it firmly contradicts the one shot they JUST put out.

Incidentally this is maybe the weirdest case of sexist nerd blowback for an all women cast I've seen yet. Like...LINDA HAMILTON HAS BEEN THE STAR THIS WHOLE TIME YOU GOONS!

Ah good my gamble that it would duplicate the results of Finding Neverland is paying off at least. At 67% now with 17 reviews. Top critics are 5-2 for it but even one of the fresh reviews has a pretty tepid summary. It looks like it's going to come down to how reviewers fall on middling stuff being fresh or rotten.

TWENTY-NINE VARIANTS FOR FANTASTIC FOUR #1 TWENTY-NINE!

Believe it or not, Black Panther is still in theaters, is up to $1.346 Billion Worldwide including just under $700 Million domestic, and is nine days from passing GotG's theatrical run. Apparently still in 18 theaters in North America. Wild.

Momma Mia and Mission Impossible gonna be the end of me.

67 reviews and 90% in case anyone was wondering how this turned out.

I read about it on Bleeding Cool and they had a link there, but not sure where it's at.

Bleeding Cool suggested it was a case of WB Corporate catching wind and being concerned of blowback toward the film and thus sending word down to scuttle it.

DC cancelled the Shazam! Monster Society of Evil hardcover for the same vintage racism concerns as 7 or 8 years ago when they cancelled it last time. Gotta be a movie thing because we have two hardcovers of pre-Batman Detective Comics coming. Still disappointing given how important the story is to the history of longer form serialization in comics.

Sometimes in the same series.

Booster is a Johns favourite and seems to be a protagonist. Red Robin just died and came back so he seems unlikely. I'd wager Roy goes and maybe Kyle as much as the idea frustrates me.