With the imminent debut of sequel, Age of Ultron, the question is whether the fanboy icon can invite even more comic-book favourites to join the party without accidentally ordering the geek equivalent of a nuclear strike on our cerebellums.
Mr. Zalben countered, "But I fooled her by spending even more on comics".
This is true not only of funny movies, but also, even more so, of comic performances.
In the cafe's elegant environment, Ms. Carter's madcap Scarlett O'Hara has even more of a comic edge than she did in the blander environment of Freddy's.
In addition to being a showcase for actors, the movie is most successful as a quintessentially New York film in which the characters are even more neurotic and comic than usual and the plot hinges dramatically on a subway station closure.
The primacy of one innovation, podcasting, is even more apparent among comics this year.
The fashion for cosplay has seen an even more diverse crowd of comic fans attending events, and so-called "graphic novel" sections in bookshops – ghettoes for comics that are longer original works or collected into series – are one of the rare areas of the market to have grown year on year.
Even more rarely, a Web comic might attract a large following at a stand-alone site; such is the case with "Penny Arcade," a video gaming strip.
Otherwise, the movie is an earnest affair that is clumsy when it should be light on its feet; it takes itself even more seriously than the comic book does, though its fans may be overjoyed by that devotion (Mitchell).
Clumsy when it should be light on its feet, the movie takes itself even more seriously than the comic book and its fans do, which is a superheroic achievement.
