I am a couple episodes into The Boys. I was sold in the first 5 minutes when the main character is holding onto his girlfriend and a superhero blows through her and kills her, and the lead is just holding onto her arms. I was blown away when that happened. So NOT MCU that I giggled with laughter.

The reason for the delay between the email and the website is because I cache the website, and you were just here. For 99% of visitors it isn’t an issue. But for you two, you are the exception! hahah.

I didn’t mean to imply Brightburn was the first of its kind. I’m not on this page as I write this, or I’d re-read what I wrote (no, I actually wouldn’t! hahaha. Not worth it!) but I’m sorry if I gave off any indication that this was a new idea for me. Heck, I recently just reviewed the new Watchmen HBO project, and loved it. And the heart of that experience was super heroes lying to the public. My personal favorite spin on the dark superhero world would be – by far – Chronicle. I loved that movie. And I KNOW I did a review of that movie. (This is happening to me more and more – movies that I KNOW I reviewed, and yet, they are “disappearing” on me. Which, I realize, is the beginnings to a plot of a movie with an unreliable narrator. So yeah, maybe I haven’t actually done a review of Chronicle… but that just breaks my heart really.) Kids gaining superpowers, and then destroying the city. And I’m pretty sure I talked about Steelheart here, right? This isn’t new. Kinda weird that I must have given off an aura of shock or hyperventilating excitement? That gave the impression that I thought this was a new thing?

And as for me being uneducated in comic books – um, sure. The world of comic books are so enormously big. There’s always something new to read or follow. My personal comic book forays were mainly into Batman, DC, McFarlane, ID, Spawn, and the like. I also got into many different Japanese titles. But yeah, not comprehensive in the least.

But at the end of the day, it’s fine that you guys don’t like Brightburn. I think my main point was that I’d rather watch Brightburn than watch a Marvel movie. Sure it was dark. And if you don’t roll into where this thing is going – and that it’s more of a horror film than a superhero film, you won’t enjoy it. It caught me on a good day. But if you want to see a film that I really enjoyed that played out the darkness perfectly, then Chronicle is that film. Loved it. It’s dark though, dangit. And it’s not a happy go lucky superhero film. It talks about absolute power corrupting absolutely, and that, personally, is a more real view of the world than any other superhero film. My two cents. Thanks for the comic recommendation… I’ve started flipping through it.