I came here to post the same obligatory XKCD cartoon. Glad to see someone beat me to it.

I think the same goes for anyone who describes themselves in positive terms so generic, they might as well be giving the textbook definition of “decent human being.”

Doesn’t “FDA-cleared” just mean “this probably won’t hurt anybody,” not “this product actually works?” And given that jerking off onto a slide is one of the least dangerous medical tests you can undertake (“Do what you’d be doing anyway, but there’s a clean slide instead of a stiff towel”), do you think it took the…

I can appreciate that view. I get the point you’re trying to make, and I don’t necessarily disagree with the underlying sentiment.

She was good in AoS, but so much better in Preacher. Stole every scene she was in.

This is as good a place as any to mention that there’s a Freakonomics podcast about open borders in which Madeline Albright discusses her immigrant experience. She really does articulate the American Dream extremely well. I recommend giving it a listen.

Yeah, the “Jason and Janet get married” thing came out of nowhere, but it was so brilliant in retrospect. Without that dynamic, the “Geez, Jason is dumb!” thing was going to get old super-quick, and Janet was more or less a plot device who occasionally spouted one-liners. Having them bounce off each other works so…

Wait, you’re saying that people belonging to an institution that glorifies mentally unhinged celebrities, fleeces innocent people of their money, espouses a ludicrous and easily disproven version of reality, dodges taxes, routinely harasses and intimidates their perceived enemies, worships a narcissistic con man as a…

I remember when it first became obvious last year that Donald Trump had a legitimate shot at the White House, and the New York Post ran the story about Melania’s fully nude and lesbian-themed photo shoot(s) from her modeling days, and of course social media was saturated with racy photos from her GQ shoot back in…

You bring up a good point. People are better parents when they’re not exhausted, sleep-deprived wrecks. You’re not a better parent because you haven’t slept in three days; you’re a much worse parent. Tired moms and dads are less attentive and vigilant, and they’re much moodier (and babies definitely pick up on…

Yeah, my son was born premature (at 33 weeks), and during his 3-week stay in the NICU, like many premature babies, he frequently experienced apnea where he essentially “forgot” to breathe. The standard protocol for this is that the nurses basically tap the infant on the foot to jar it into realizing, “Oh, fuck,…

I dunno. After his first couple of appearances in FF, I think the Watcher kind of just became a fixture of the entire Marvel Universe, popping up whenever a writer felt like conveying the gravity of whatever crossover event Marvel happened to be doing at the time or narrating something in a really lazy way. On the eve…

I was going to guess Pip the Troll, and then I saw the the Watcher speculation and thought, “Oh, yeah, that’s much better.” Then I had the same thought as you: “Oh, never mind. That’s probably a part of the Fantastic Four property owned by Fox.” But then again, some of the FF characters (e.g., the Inhumans, Black…

The only dramatic difference in technology that springs to mind is the host-on-guest violence control measures. When the Man in Black gets shot, the bullets flick off of him, and he doesn’t so much as flinch. I can’t even remember if his clothes even twitched all that much. Conversely, when Billy gets shot, it doesn’t…

It seems like everyone on this thread has a theory about this, and some are really interesting. I too loved his work on the first few Gen X issues, which looked more like his work on Death and Shade, and was disappointed when his art took an abrupt turn after the Generation Next/AoA arc.

The Echo is great! But the Home sure looks better . . .

Dauterman’s art always reminds me of Alphonse Mucha.

You should see my other comment on this article.

As someone who frequently works with EL wire for craft/cosplay projects, I thought this was a really novel idea. When I was reading, I couldn’t help but think that the fact that the plastic tubing was wider than the EL wire would result in a wavy look when it was turned on because of the slack (as opposed to straight…

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. I don’t own a smart watch, and I have no plans to purchase one, but the Citizen watch you chose to represent “a more attractive standard watch” is one of the ugliest analog watches I’ve ever seen. That disaster looks less like a watch and more like an algebra exam cheat sheet.…