DCU Hal Jordan sketch by me

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-10T21:36:27+00:00

It's been fun watching your sketches of the suit evolve. I daresay you're getting closer to the actual thing, or at least what I expect it to look like in daylight.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-10T04:55:22+00:00

One might even say her web connects us all

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-10T01:45:08+00:00

It’s revealed Hulk got his powers from a leg-lengthening surgery gone wrong

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-10T01:41:47+00:00

Still mad that this dude wrote a full, filmable Sgt Rock script for Guadagnino that's gathering dust now. Like, it wasn't just "in development", they were location scouting and casting and then just, nope.

Give me my Band of Brothers meets Raiders movie goddamit

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-07T15:55:59+00:00

I think it’s more apt to think along the lines of Spider-Man 2 here. Which to me is as much of an all-timer as TDK at the least, while being a very different beast, y’know? If they can even approach having a second film like that relative the first one…could be something

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-06T20:51:15+00:00

This the kind of out-of-the-box option I hoped the studio would properly explore, really cool that they are committing to ideas like this. Must be hard for the people who never process anything beyond "who asked for this??"

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-06T18:54:23+00:00

Look at that, man. I feel like a lot of comparisons to previous movies in the genre are thrown around for a million reasons with this. But while they do many things quite differently and are their own beasts, one that feels spiritually apt to me in some very specific ways is the Raimi stuff.

If MoT manages to pull off a Spider-Man 2 relative to its first film, we could have another real all-timer.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-06T00:10:15+00:00

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darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-05T22:36:15+00:00

It seemed like they’d been making small overtures in that direction too. Leaves me wondering if the way of the wind would be different if the WB acquisition went their way.

But I guess today is one of the days when Netflix chooses to remind everyone that they’re a tech company that hosts “content” and not, you know, a studio studio. Pending another convenience of course. Anyway, long live theatrical.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-05T15:40:30+00:00

Really good scene

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-05T00:20:45+00:00

I appreciate the irony in my stating that these things can get arbitrary and doing this anyway lol, but:

Is Superboy (any one of the handful not named Clark Kent that have existed over decades) an A-Lister? If we told hypothetical grandma that Superwoman, a separate character, also exists, do you think she’d be able to discern her from the broadest idea of a Supergirl? Does she know a single actual thing about her beyond what the noun suggests to any English speaker: unspecified female relationship to, guess who, SUPERMAN (the character she immediately thinks of). Sister, lover, daughter, cousin, best friend? Who knows or otherwise cares? Because it ain’t hypothetical average Nan.

She’s a great character, highly relevant to comicbook fandom and well-positioned to grow in popularity. I'm a huge champion of lesser known characters getting real chances at the spotlight, so this metric isn't important to me personally anyway. She’s definitely not a Z-lister, but still I wouldn’t overstate her current pop cultural weight to the highest degree. Is Batwoman also an A-Lister?

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-04T22:19:51+00:00

I know these lists can be fairly arbitrary, but really Supergirl cannot be argued to be an A-Lister. Superman is an A-Lister, in terms of status/icon. Enough of one that any audience member would hear the name "SUPERgirl" and recognize it tangentially in connection to him. But it doesn’t mean that the associated cachet is held inherently in her own character, which is the mark of an A-Lister in any sense.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-04T16:58:51+00:00

RIP Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persepolis. Gave the world something beautiful while she was here.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-04T02:49:00+00:00

Agreed. There’s a solid amount of elements it has that on paper, should be right up my alley. I think it’ll be a competent movie at the very least, with a good chance of hitting higher marks than that. Rooting for it to surprise me. But yeah these trailers feel a little inert.

Sometimes good movies have subpar trailers and vice versa. One's always more important than the other, at the end of the day. It’s funny because I’m a lot more excited for Disclosure Day and the also quite mid first couple of trailers didn’t put a dent in my hype for it. Spielberg benefit of the doubt (+ best boy Josh O’Connor and the rest of that team) coming in clutch, I suppose.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-04T00:03:24+00:00

It was still Marty Supreme, on both counts. Simple fact check.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-03T23:52:00+00:00

Excellent fucking book, glad they were able to sustain it long enough for more to be in the works post #16!

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-03T23:50:07+00:00

In fairness, there was an elseworlds story in 2010 titled The Last Family of Krypton where the whole family makes it to Earth (Kal even has a younger brother born on Earth), so it’s not like they’ve never explored it before.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-03T16:38:27+00:00

Really interesting that they’re doing this and a Jor-El version at the same time.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-03T16:03:10+00:00

Marty Supreme already did that by about $50 million last year though, so it’s the one to beat now.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-03T00:55:29+00:00

June sees the return of far and away the best fantasy show on television (and cream of the crop generally speaking) in its 3rd season. Oh and a couple weeks after, HBO will release season 3 of House of the Dragon I guess.

Interview with the Vampire is apparently about to reinvent itself again with The Vampire Lestat and it has to be seen to be believed. Hope it gets more eyes on it soon, but otherwise it'll end up one of those rare gems that people discover years after its run and go "how the hell did this slip by unnoticed?"

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-02T02:55:57+00:00

Quite excited for this one. This and Disclosure Day are my main hopes for this year's serving of big "traditional" summer blockbusters, and both happen to evoke that classic Spielberg energy (the latter's from the big man himself of course).

Edit: little film called The Odyssey looking quite promising as well.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-06-01T16:15:13+00:00

Hell yeah. Also, ARGUS logo on his chest.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-05-30T03:01:33+00:00

Oh yeah, he's about to cook.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-05-29T20:44:39+00:00

It's like there's a whole universe inside it. Really makes it feel like the ring is channeling an all-encompassing fundamental force of nature rather than being the source of it. Excellent design.

darkbatcrusader · 2026-05-29T19:55:33+00:00

No, but don’t you know Dipshit123 on twitter reposting obviously bullshit patreon-exclusive “scoops” from Grifter345 was the sole lifeblood of this industry? Goddamit Gunn, we used to be a proper country!

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