About fucking time. He and his fellow cryptographers almost singlehandedly won World War Two for us.

So sad that the lives of great people (any life actually) can end so needlessly just because someone has a problem with something that doesn't even affect them.

Think you might consider A Wizard of Earthsea? It's quite beautiful. And short.

It's saturation with toys too. How many times can I buy a Spiderman action figure? "Boy" toys are action figures, building blocks and guns. It gets boring.

What an edgy and original opinion.

If Double-Crom said it then I find it hard to argue! Crom!

With big guns and flame-throwers and mechanical aids which allow the user to jump higher, run faster and lift more than a platoon of un-augmented humans. Why, it's so massive that it makes Tom Cruise almost 5'8".

Not defending the guy but... Who has?

What on Earth is this article about? A baseless, sourceless rumor. Why would Abrams leave now? They decided the shooting location in what, May? Would he really wait two months to make this decision which would likely put him in breach of contract with Disney and waste months of work that Bad Robot has put into this…

I would be a happy man if Abrams would go and direct his own IP. And produce it. Leave the established IP behind - make his own thing. And take Damon Lindholf with him, so that way neither of them can keep fucking up my favorite franchises.

That seems very unlikely to me.

Avatar disagrees with you.

I hate that that's how Westerns, and likely Japanese animators, are likely going to see "mechs" from now on.

Realizing that I might keel over at any time, if I were an wildly successful author with a massive franchise like this guy or the harry potter author or whatever, I would at least keep an outline and notes of where everything was going.

I simply can't agree that an author owes their fans nothing, no sense of closure, NOTHING. In my opinion, when an author engages in a multi-volume work, there is a tacit agreement with the consumer that the author will do his or her best to finish that work. The fans are paying for the story, I think it's reasonable…

I don't know about consensus, but I'm on the side of those that say he doesn't owe us anything. He could quit writing and take up macramé, and we'd have no right to bother him about it. We'd have every right to feel disappointed, even angry, that the series didn't get finished, but to say that he owes us implies that…

Yep - I believe it's Star Lord's - it gets stolen from him and plays Hooked on a Feeling.

I smell cheese.

SDCC as Geek Vegas?

Ugh. I'll be that guy: I've been to Las Vegas twice (business trips) and I hated it. Las Vegas is what the rest of the world thinks Amurica is. If you're comparing SDCC to Las Vegas, then I think I'll give it a miss.