Sure. You can call them ring-tailed lemurs for all I care. I dunno that the spectral labelling schema of US politics matters a ton to me personally.

Yeah. Brace yourself, but I don’t care what they’re called.

Oh yeah. I’ve seen it a lot. People just now discovering the movie are like, “Tons of people thought this was real.” Guys, nobody thought this was real. Maybe for like a minute way beforehand on certain very specific corners of the internet. But not when it was out.

I think it was a similar thing. The fact that it felt real was so groundbreaking and talked about so much that it eventually became “people thought it was real.”

And seeing this become the pop culture narrative is what convinced me Welles’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast was probably not widely mistaken for an alien invasion.

The political class in general has a misunderstanding of what our relationship is. Like I go out and I eat at the restaurant that has something I want. It doesn’t occur to me to worry how restaurateurs feel about me wanting pizza. I’m not out here reading think-pieces about it.

In a very real way I have never had to think about time more than when writing a comic book. How to slow a moment down with still images. Or speed it up with images. It’s a wild, quantum physics sort of writing.

Well— kinda. Movies are like music, but comics are not like paintings in that pacing is fundamental and not fixed. You do have to create a sense of moving time, making some moments pass quickly and others linger. You just can’t do that WITH time.

Well it would be very hard to picture a hero who’d have a harrowing time thinking of ways to defeat a villain I respected as little as that. Ideally you want your big bad to be sorta— I dunno… remotely competent.

And a comic book is probably much more dissimilar from the other three than they are to each other. Writing a comic book is firing up a completely different part of your writing brain.

Because it feels a little like I personally am literally a hundred percent closer to replacing all art than AI is.

Or, you know, writing a movie. Like where is that on the scale of “existing” to “ending all human creativity?” Releasing a movie?

Was she patiently waiting for it or pacing? Watching the numbers change?

Well I’m sure there are multiple ways of getting around the building but I actually think the most solid evidence that she can use a lift is that we literally see her getting off a lift. It’s still a funny process to picture.

That said, the logistics are objectively funny.

I think you'll find the Queen pressed the buttons for every floor and patiently waited until she finally reached the one with Ripley.

It’s not an attack. This is an A+ movie. And I will happily concede that it’s physically possible for her to use the lift. But no one can convince me that the process is not a vaguely funny thing to picture.