I feel that

yeah don delillo has a cool name and most of the guys he makes up didn't

There's their idealized version of Eric Adams, where a black moderate, socially tolerant former cop can assemble a politically viable, diverse coalition to address serious systemic problems.

Then there's the actual, real-life Eric Adams, who is a corrupt moron and quite possibly insane.

oh wow

NIXON: This Gerwig is she, er...
ZIEGLER: I don't believe so, no.
NIXON: But the husband.
HALDEMAN: Baumbach.
NIXON: I see.

All-Star Superman is like the only modern mainstream Superman book I have/share with the kid, otherwise it's all old reprints

big nonprofit with massive testing facilities and rigorous standards and member survey data basically

great point!

I'm always trying to tell my friends to ditch Wirecutter and just subscribe to Consumer Reports. they have a product category issue of skewing older/homeowner like their audience but you can fundamentally trust their reviews and tests.

yeah he's good. seems like he's having fun and not just cashing a check

oh I should've just clarified live-action. Spider-verse is great stuff.

this is generally the most convincing answer for every version of the question "why does everything look like shit and make no sense despite being very expensive"