The Franchise Recap: Hanging in the Town Square
 Photo: Colin Hutton/HBO Some elements of comic-book storytelling are so absurd and, well, cartoonish that they just don’t translate to the big screen. Such is why there was a major push in the 2000s — from the Bryan Singer X-Men movies through to the Nolan Batman trilogy, the Snyderverse, and much of the MCU — to …