@AngryFork: Sometime around the end of WWII, Cap gets flash frozen in an iceberg and drifts around for a while before being discovered and defrosted by the Avengers in the 'present day' of the comics (originally the Silver Age of the 1960s).

If you had asked me at age 9 what I wanted to be when I grew up, I might have told you, "I can't decide between X-Wing pilot or Jedi Knight, 'cuz I think only Luke Skywalker gets to be both." I love the original trilogy, yes, even Jedi.

@Krakenstein: Wow, that was the first thing I thought too!

@MajorMattMason: Well said!

@WookieLifeDay: Yeah, but I'd argue that an action movie about a comic-book super-spy who hangs out with a someone with a DIY Starship Trooper suit, a defrosted WWII supersoldier and the son of Odin has very little room left for realism.

I'm keeping them in a holding pattern; the potential for awesome is definitely there, but I agree that the overlapping flashback bits were poorly handled.

@crosis101: I totally agree! In the old days they used to categorize actors as either 'leads' or 'character' performers, and guys like Claude Rains exemplified this (the inspector from Casablanca and The Invisible Man!). Lang feels like a throwback to those days. He was also Col. Pickett in Gettysburg and the…

Having just started the books in late August, I am suddenly finding more and more posts like this that I had previously disregarded.

David Fury leaving: boo!

@Alberto Besada: Ah, the 70s...what couldn't you do, so long as you had a hot bike and a ramp? The world was your oyster...

In prehistoric Russia, roadrunner gets you!

@galfridus73: I agree that someone should have made the ultimate sacrifice in Jedi, but Lando would have felt like a cop-out, what with his 160 seconds or so of screen time. Far better to have Solo go from scoundrel to hero by dying as he saves Leia. Besides, it's not as though they needed any of these characters…

I love the idea of a college-age Kitty Pryde television show. It would really scratch the lingering Buffy itch, and just the potential of old classmates or teachers popping in as guest stars would be enough to keep me tuning in.

I love the vid-lines on the creature, nice touch!

Wow, a science story that lets people deny evolution AND climate change at the SAME TIME! Full marks for efficiency, io9!

@Howard Blair: I don't know if it's a good idea to look too deeply into the comparative intellectual merits of telling adolescents they are going to burn in a lake of non-consuming fire for pretending to slay monsters with pencils and dice versus mail ordering a set of ninja togs and following the greenskeeper around…

@ShanaLD: Egad, what a title! I'll have to look that up, thanks.

I guess a person would have to be pretty brave to hand out Jack Chick tracts at a convention centre full of 'immodestly' dressed and 'occult glorifying' individuals.

I like Whedon and enjoyed his run on X-Men, so I'm pretty happy about this, but there is an undercurrent of worry. Whedon sees the Avengers as a family, maybe in the same way that Coppola saw "The Godather" as a movie about a family, which I think is a great start.

@Annamatopoetry: I dunno, I've always kind of liked it. I'm always telling my daughters that courage, whether physical or moral, is not the absence of fear, but the overcoming of it. The 'litany against fear' is not an admonition against fear itself, but an assertion that the reader will not let their actions be…