It's not like you can't produce the artwork to prove it.




That's very upsetting. I had my collection of Charlton comics stolen around 1981 and I still miss Wally Wood and Joe Staten.




I see a number of critics have bashed it for being too long, cramming in too much. From my perspective, it was too short, skipping over some bits I felt needed to breathe more. I wasn't surprised to hear that an hour got cut from the running time. I have hopes that the "Director's Cut" on DVD will correct my very minor criticsm.




I reckon the first sacrifical lamb will be Fantastic Four, or rather Fant4stic, but it my deserve it. Why can't movies get Doom right?

I also note that poor old Sony, ever trend-chasing, has just licensed the Valiant heroes for their new massive interconnected superhero universe of movies to replace the crashed-and-burned Sinister Six spiderverse.

As for Batman v. Superman, yeah, that's going to be amazing or a train wreck, nothing in-between. Right now the tea leaves suggest train wreck.

One thing that amused me about the Avengers 2 movie was the repeated emphasis on rescuing civilians caught in the battle zones. It was as if someone had watched the Man of Steel movie and read the online reaction to the mass slaughter and Superman doing nothing. To be fair, though, any team led by a properly characterised Captain America isn't going to damn the casualties and take the expedient route of acceptable losses; in fact there's a very very cool Cap-speech on the topic at a key moment.