I had the exact same thought — “No, she’d bounce!”

“the electrical systems short out (creating a very cool, and deadly, glowing bubble effect)”

That’s a good point. But it’s still sensationalistic to call it psychopathy, and it distracts from the actual significance.

Oh, great, let’s sensationalize another non-story about AI. This isn’t psychopathy, just mindless pattern recognition skewed by a limited data set. It doesn’t illustrate anything but “Garbage in, garbage out.”

Right. My thought on seeing the commercial was how reckless it was to try to drive between two semis in the first place. And would that situation even ever occur? Two semis driving at the same speed two lanes apart, side by side? Normally you’d only see that if the one on the left were trying to pass the one on the…

The field didn’t “shred organic matter” — it just decelerated the guy’s ship so quickly that the g-force liquefied him, like crashing into a stone wall. Although I guess the deceleration effect did work differently on inorganic matter, since the ship wasn’t destroyed by the impact at the same time.

Maybe, but they take it too far. It’s a tradition for villains to be foiled by their own fatal flaws, but this Glomgold has nothing but exaggerated flaws. He’s so stupid and incompetent that he totally fails to be a credible adversary and is merely annoying. I mean, he hired a golf pro as a caddy in order to cheat,…

I don’t care for this dumb, incompetent version of Glomgold. He’s supposed to be Scrooge’s arch-nemesis, and arch-nemeses need to be at least as capable and intelligent as the heroes in order to pose a credible threat. This Glomgold is just a moron who’s his own worst enemy, so Scrooge has nothing to worry about from…

What, no Enos?

My question about BlacKkKlansman: How do you pronounce the title? “Black Klansman?” “Black KKK Klansman?” “Blacka-ka-Klansman?”

I didn’t mind the nostalgia, because this is the first time Launchpad has really felt like Launchpad, a character with an actual personality and goals we can empathize with, rather than just a one-dimensional running gag of someone so exaggeratedly dumb it’s amazing he could remember how to breathe. This time they…

When Schroeder was introduced as a toddler, the joke was less that he was obsessed with Beethoven (he did occasionally talk about other composers) but that he was an uncanny musical savant — impossibly able to get concert-quality sound out of a toy piano whose black keys were painted on. Looking at these later strips…

I believe the birdlike head inside the tengai (basket helmet) was the delusion creature grown to human size.

“Do we want to talk about the odd attempts to introduce backstory to Agent Thomas? (I even had to go look up his name.) That whole recurring exchange between him and Piper, where she calls out his one scar and luck, felt very strange.”

Well, to each their own. I’m not a fan of zombie movies (with the exception of Shaun of the Dead), so I prefer it that this show’s “zombies” are generally toned down from the usual Romero-type creatures. I mean, heck, even three-plus years in, I still get a bit squeamish about all the brain-eating.

Yeah, the show’s called iZombie, not iEx-Boyfriend of Zombie. Plus Robert Buckley (Major) is the fourth-billed actor. In credits order, Liv is the main character, then Clive, then Ravi, then Major.

I agree. Zombies on this show aren’t supposed to be supernatural, they’re just people with a weird disease. They have heartbeats and circulation, just at a very low level. So a zombie brain cut off from blood flow might not die, but it shouldn’t be conscious. And of course it should be physically impossible for the…

Why are so many black superheroes named Jefferson? Jefferson Reed, Jefferson Pierce (Black Lightning), Jefferson Jackson (half of Firestorm in the Arrowverse). Given that Thomas Jefferson was a slaveowner, it seems like an odd choice.

David Gerrold was also one of the first couple of writers to predict computer viruses and give them that name, in his 1969-72 series of stories that were later combined into the novel When HARLIE Was One. Gregory Benford also mentioned a virus program in a 1970 short story, and I’m not sure which of them did it first.

I have never before seen him wear that shirt in the comics. So, yeah, it’s gotta be a nod to his first-season ‘90s cartoon look. (From the second season onward, he wore an unbuttoned gray long-sleeved shirt over a salmon-hued t-shirt. Maybe we’ll see him in that outfit too in this comic.)