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I think the strip would have been better without the last panel actually.

(And yes, I am still ticked about how poorly X3 treated the comic franchise.)

I like the “Everyone in black leather, because no one would buy people in yellow spandex(latex?) on screen.” shot.

Everything about this one feels muddled for some reason.

i enjoyed it especially the last line. didnt reach the high of the watchmen video game, that one was the best so far

I like the 2nd & last panels. I was conflicted about killing the X-franchise, because as dumb as parts of X3 were, it was visually pretty good. And the last panel pretty much sums up any comic book argument I get into on the internet.

The last panel made me laugh, actually. Unexpectedly candid. (Then again, I’m still mad about X-Men 3 myself.)

I liked X-3 (although I thought the Angel’s plotline didn’t add anything to the movie). What’s wrong with me?

I love the “W”s on their costumes…

First three panels are great, but the last panel sealed it for me.

“(And yes, I am still ticked about how poorly X3 treated the comic franchise.)”

IMO Marvel has done a great job killing that franchise the last decade or so through the multitude of mutant comic books

I also hated X-Men 3 and just got into a discussion with somebody else on this very same topic last night. We both did agree though that Singer wouldn’t have been much better on X3, he wanted everything so melodramatic and weepy. Just look at his Superman movie and you can see how poorly he understands super hero movies.

Still being mad about X-3 doesn’t seem all that unreasonable to me.

No more unreasonable than still being angry about The Phantom Menace, at least.

The last panel here is my favorite panel in any of these strips. Bravo,

*sigh*

Not only do I have no interest in or knowledge of gaming (see previous 2 installments), I also have almost no interest in comics-based movies. Nor have I any perception of WATCHMEN as being the be- & end-all of anything (comics, movies, Alan Moore’s oeuvre, whatever).

I’m useless. *Useless*. USELESS!!!

Yeah, Bryan Singer sure doesn’t understand Superhero movies, seeing as how X2 is one of the best superhero movies ever made and all.

Singer or Matthew Vaughn would have made a better X3 simply by the virtue that they would have actually directed the majority of the film instead of farming huge portions of it out to other crews. Ratner was the lowest bidder to direct the movie, and he accomplished that by having around 5 separate units shooting simultaneously.

Watchman: Always thought that it worked nicely as a mini-series with the characters exiting the stage after the final act. Do that stuff with established characters and you lose the fan base. I thought that switching them off of an established pantheon of heroes worked out tremendously. I cannot imagine myself buying “Watchmen 13″. The same reason LEGION lost after a year or so. When you start rooting for a sniper to come off major characters, and it just never comes, the shekels move on to other opportunities.

X3 & Bryan Singer: I like to think Bryan would have done it better. Certainly he did far better on the first two. Parts of X3 are positively excellent, but the rest is hopelessly bad. I liked the Angel arc because it showed another perspective of the conflict, Worthington II trying to force Worthington III to conform. A capsule for the movie as a whole. Beast was terrific. But unwatchably bad at times. Not unlike…

Batman Returns: The Penguin for Mayor stuff destroyed it for me. Just as bad in its own way as X3. Pfeiffer and Keaton were excellent, again setting aside Keaton’s obvious physical mismatch for the part.

Superman Returns: Liked it. Can’t agree here. Read Larry Niven’s “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” essay sometime. Kryptonians marrying humans has always been silly. Superman II sets the stage with powerless Kal getting it on with Lois, so if we assume III & IV happened and then he was gone before she started to show. Handled properly, the orphan trapped in a situation where he cannot have a family while selflessly saving the rest of us is powerful stuff and core to Superman. The pushing the Kryptonite meteor stuff was the rough spot for me, either a small chunk knocks him flat or this is actually Martian Manhunter goofing with us for the entire movie. Or Mon-El. Or Comet the Super-Horse.

Brilliant. Simultaneous mocking of X-3 and the fans who take things too seriously.
@ Scott McIver: Yellow works for Silk Spectre, and for the color pallette of the movie. The lighting over a lot of it in the trailers has this yellow tone to it that dulls the yellow on her costume. Those lighting choices work perfectly with the tone in the original art, but wouldn’t have worked with X-Men. It might have dulled a yellow Wolverine enough for it to not be eye-burning bad, but the X-Men is a “shinier” concept, if you understand what I’m talking about. Yellow lighting dulls things, which works for the world of Watchmen, but not that of X-Men.
Also, she’s a female sex-symbol super hero, not Wolverine. Her costume can and should look less, for lack of a better term, “badass”. It isn’t that everyone would look silly like that, it’s that Wolverine would have. Had they put Kitty in the very similar old-school training suit then it would have looked fine.
@KEC: Larry Niven over thinks the issue. The essay is a fun read, but the only part that is even potentially accurate is the possibility of him accidentally crushing her mid-orgasm, and even then I’m sure he has better self control.

I liked X-3. As much as one could have. Well, I liked Famke Jansen and seeing a mish-mash of Phoenix stuff sold to the public. And Ian McKellen was great. So was Kelsey Grammer (perfect casting, IMO).

The problem with comic movies is they don’t take ENOUGH of the source material, or at least what makes the source material good. Why, oh why can’t we get a Punisher movie half as good as Garth Ennis’ many triumphs on the character? Who in their right mind would greenlight Catwoman? “Constantine … British, eh? … can we make him American? ‘Cause then we could get Keanu.”

Then again, slavish devotion to the source material doesn’t work, either.

And none of the Batman movies were any good. And Singer’s Superman was terrible. Worse than Dark Knight which was terrible as well. Completely lacking dramatic tension, both of them. Marvel’s movies, say what you will, are much, much better adaptations. Look at Iron Man, the movie that made you care about an arms-dealer.

I liked this webcomic. ‘NUFF SAID!

This strip went right over my head. I’m guessing I’d have to see X-3 to understand it.