If we accept the imperative to keep these pieces of IP running decades past the contexts that made them relevant, I think the thing to do post-Craig is lean into the fantasy and cartoonishness of Bond, while side-stepping the elements that have aged the worst, like the sexual politics

The only genuinely adult take on Batman was the 1966 tv show. Everything since on tv and the movies has been for 14-year-olds of all ages.

Part of the adolescent appeal of comic book continuity is an a world you can make sense of and master by ordering facts (which you access by buying/consuming a bunch of stuff.) Couple that with the impulse to make characters like Bond or Batman “mature” and “realistic” and it all feels very damp.

That Projectra design is sooooo Cockrum

There were young Danheads here and there, coke freaks and guys who really wanted you to know the band name was a dildo in Naked Lunch, but they seemed few and far between.

Feels like it took the death of ragged guitar rock as a cultural force, poptimism, and r&b’s turn toward the mildly avant-garde, for The Dan to be elevated like they are now.

My experience is that there was a whole long window of time when Steely Dan was basically disregarded if not disdained by young music fans. Jazz inflected fussy studio perfectionism just wasn’t as lauded from the late 80s through the 90s. It was Boomer shit.

Bro

There was a time when The Kids put Steely Dan in the “Your mom’s most boring 8-Tracks“ file…and those kids weren’t wrong

Beautiful babies

He looks like someone who pays someone to post that Sabrina Carpenter isn’t attractive to heterosexual men