This week on Moving Panels, our Summer Series continues with a movie that isn’t based on a comic book… but absolutely feels like one.

Laramy is joined by Nicholas Pepin from Pop Culture Roulette and Tim Williams from 80s Flick Flashback to discuss Hancock (2008), the superhero movie that asked: what if the world’s most powerful hero was also its biggest public nuisance?

The group talks about Will Smith’s performance, the movie’s surprisingly strong first half, the infamous tonal shift, and how Hancock evolves from grounded superhero satire into something that feels closer to comic book mythology. Along the way, they compare the movie’s immortal romance elements to stories involving Hawkman and Hawkgirl and ask whether Hancock was actually ahead of its time.

Is this messy experiment still worth revisiting nearly twenty years later?

Find out on this episode of Moving Panels.