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Why, just because Alan Moore is an elitist prig? Who cares WHAT he thinks--it's DC's property and his opinion no longer matters. I get where he's coming from, but he doesn't give a tenth of a mess about any relationship any of his fans have created with these characters at this point. Plenty of others do. I respect Moore's ability, but not his arrogance. Yes, you can't translate all of the innovations to the comic medium he made in "Watchmen" to other media, and yes, any attempt to do so will be inferior to "Watchmen" because the odds that a Snyder or anyone else would similarly try to innovate the translated medium anywhere close to the extent to which he did is nil to zero. Who cares? Mostly Alan Moore and not many others. Do we really miss and return to re-experience his innovations to panel-based art that much? No--the vast majority of us re-experience Watchmen because of the story and the characters. You can still tell good stories with these characters, and while it won't be Alan Moore's Watchmen, it's still possible to do them well. He's not the only writer capable of penning an anti-superhero story. Nothing to do with Alan Moore. Watchmen is a complete work with no loose ends. You can't spin off the characters because they aren't 'superheroes' that can go off on further adventures. Their arcs are complete. You wouldn't spin off Hamlet would you? (Oh wait... I did like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead...) Watchmen is no Hamlet. I declare your arc complete, He11blazer. You had a good run, but it's all tapped out.

Seriously? WT What's your problem with that possibility?

At the end of the episode they aired a plug for some online content related to the show that referenced a flight number. This site hypothesizes that what they were showing in the water was wreckage from the plane they show in the online content. I can't make out wreckage myself. Just looks like plants in this pic. http://www.threeifbyspace.net/2015/10/fear-the-walking-dead-s1-finale-the-good-man/#.VhVRz_lVhBc

Since when are bacteria or viruses visible? I need to look more closely at that stuff...anyone seen a high-res still frame of it anywhere? Just spent about ten minutes looking for one without luck.

Why, just because Alan Moore is an elitist prig? Who cares WHAT he thinks--it's DC's property and his opinion no longer matters. I get where he's coming from, but he doesn't give a tenth of a mess about any relationship any of his fans have created with these characters at this point. Plenty of others do. I respect Moore's ability, but not his arrogance. Yes, you can't translate all of the innovations to the comic medium he made in "Watchmen" to other media, and yes, any attempt to do so will be inferior to "Watchmen" because the odds that a Snyder or anyone else would similarly try to innovate the translated medium anywhere close to the extent to which he did is nil to zero. Who cares? Mostly Alan Moore and not many others. Do we really miss and return to re-experience his innovations to panel-based art that much? No--the vast majority of us re-experience Watchmen because of the story and the characters. You can still tell good stories with these characters, and while it won't be Alan Moore's Watchmen, it's still possible to do them well. He's not the only writer capable of penning an anti-superhero story.

I don't get the idea of making Deckard a replicant. In the original Philip K. Dick novel he definitely was not a replicant for a very good thematic reason--Dick wanted to contrast Deckard being less humanistic as a human than the replicants in the story were. If Deckard isn't human, then that moral contrast is replaced by a seemingly less-interesting one. Here's a quote from Dick where he explicitly outlines his intent:

His writing on Ultimate Spider-Man was scintillating; dialogue is by far his greatest strength. I haven't thought as much about his character creation and decisions to know how good he'd be on a committee to review movie ideas. Was the Civil War idea his, or at least was the idea of revealing Daredevil's identity his? I enjoyed that story a lot but haven't read any moderns past Civil War, so I'm not sure how well having so many secret identities revealed is working out. The idea of keeping superhero identity secret is simple--it's to protect their friends and family from retribution. I wasn't sure how they'd avoid the reality of that inevitably happening.

He has a USB drive that substitutes for it. Please don't tell me anything about his dongle.

Ewww.

I never understood it either. Do they have sex? Yes - just not with each other. Who have they each had sex with? And what brings them back together if they have to go outside of the relationship to get their needs fulfilled? Does Vision even have a sex drive?

I never understood it either. Do they have sex?

I'm neutral on the Civil War concept for now. I mostly enjoyed the idea, but I was skeptical of where it would take the stories in the future. Has the identity of the heroes being public continued through to the current day? I haven't read any new comics in about five years. Was the idea even Quesada's to begin with? I'm not sure who started it, but I assumed it grew from Bendis making Daredevil's identity public in his comic. I could easily be wrong, I didn't read any press about it.

Quesada hasn't don't any writing, has he? I thought his work was all art and editorial. I love what he did in creating the grittier Marvel Knights line and bringing guys like Garth Ennis in to write Punisher. He claims he was also greatly involved in the Netflix Daredevil show and originally suggested Charlie Cox to play Daredevil because he liked him in Boardwalk Empire. What bad ideas has Quesada been responsible for?

That writer was wondering the same thing I was about the committee's advice being suggestions and that Feige had the final call. Why would he get rid of a group of Marvel's most talented writers--several of whom are the exact guys who created the original stories like Civil War that the movies are now being based upon--when all they had to be in the first place was a voice that Feige and the filmmakers could choose to listen to or not listen to? And what connection is there at ALL to Marvel now aside from Feige and whatever quality level his personal vision actually rates? Why silence the voice of experienced guys whose only purpose is to make sure the film vision stays true to the comic and that have done an indisputably fantastic job of doing so to date? It makes no sense at all. Altering the influence those voices have...sure. Silencing them entirely though? What the HELL?

Ike helped Marvel stay alive, as before then it was spinning into a slow death. But there comes a point where a turnaround CEO needs to let go of the reigns. From the many stories that have come out about him, that is not in his nature. This was a good move to help Marvel transition forward with fresh direction so its material doesn't start to come across as telling the same tale over time. He points out you're conflating the two issues, and you respond by doubling down on the conflation.

This is a mistake. He should have changed their roles and organization, not disbanded them entirely.

Wow, looks like I need to sell a few of those, didn't realize it had jumped like that.

I'd imagine that George Miller is being very careful this time after DC squashed the Justice League movie he spent over a year helping to develop.

There's this fad called "the Internet" that makes it easy to find conspiracy theories. http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/ Teenagers love conspiracy theories, and teachers tend to hear them from their students. GMOs cause cancer--tell your friends and family before it's too late.

There's this fad called "the Internet" that makes it easy to find conspiracy theories. http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/ Teenagers love conspiracy theories, and teachers tend to hear them from their students.

Which sources show ratings for broadcast television and cable together? I only see them separately listed, so I've never been sure how AMC or HBO shows compare to the networks. Historically network television has had higher ratings--are you sure the Walking Dead has higher ratings than Monday Night Football?

No follow-up question by the reporter about the technology involved in allowing it to levitate?

I don't know why, but I'm getting a 'Ilia' vibe from her. I was thinking the same thing It's because they have extremely similar facial features. Let's hope they don't intend to make her a cueball in this new film.

Absolutely. I know comic book fans that didn't have any idea who Ant-Man was, other than he existed. If GotG was an unexpected home run, this has got to be at least a triple. Been reading Marvel including almost all major superhero titles since the mid-80s, but Ant-Man seemed dumb so I had always avoided him. The film was really my first introduction to him. The movie making this much is a far greater success than I anticipated.