I realize how big Saturn is, but looking at that drawing I was struck by how huge a planet it is if you can see it through a 19th Century telescope and produce that level of detail in the drawing from observation (close to our 20th/21st Century photos); it’s the least abstracted of all the images. I’m surprised that…

Oh great. Now I can’t UNsee your interpretation of Lost Engineer’s ad (lol). It’s almost like the Victorian novel version of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

Thanks for the perspective on the Lucas era...and the B5 clip. I never watched the show during its initial run but that dialogue tells me the series is right up my alley!

Just saw the movie this past weekend, not being a hardcore fan (but definitely an admirer of the original three releases). I don’t have a problem at all with the similar themes. Maybe I read too much into it, but I kind of got the feeling that Abrams’s theme is that “The Force” is fundamentally manichean; there will al…

He sees to the ass, darkly...

Yep, that was the first thing I thought when I read Snyder’s remark. At least Nolan had some guts to wrestle with something similar in The Dark Knight (Batman having technology to access to everyone’s cell calls and Lucius Fox turning Snowden on him after it’s used to locate the Joker).

Well, now that we know the truth about the theoretical ninth planet; it’s an interstellar jawbreaker.

Well, starches often turn into sugar, so I’ll buy that!

Thanks, I forgot that. Considering the recent trend of virulently homophobic Republicans being outed after they’ve spent a legislative lifetime sponsoring LGBT-rights crushing bills, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised about Hoover. I remember watching Bush I on TV in college speaking about George Schultz and misspeaking,…

Drone on, mon frere, drone on! Lol. You make a lot of valid points and cover a lot of historical ground. I guess I’m always looking at it from a Punk/DIY/Gen-X perspective (being a long-in-the-tooth Gen-Xer),of a bootstrap entrepreneur. For example, I have a friend who submitted a story to Marvel a couple of decades…

Yeah, it’s amazing how much history I never actually learned growing up in a midwestern cowtown. Now that I live in a real-life Gotham, I’ve been schooled by gay friends on so much LGBT history I didn’t know or wasn’t told. Such as how my childhood hero, George Washington Carver, liked to do things with peanut oil…

I had to chuckle at your comment about optics. A friend of mine, who is an out gay therapist, told me that situations like that, single men adopting other men (often younger but legally consenting age), was one of many social and legal constructs gay men used to get around the pre-SCOTUS rulings and civil partnership…

You make a lot of valid points. And yes, comics have always been read across ages and social groups. Look at how the CIA and Marxist governments used them for propaganda. I would hardly agree, however, that the industry “never recovered.” I’d say the CCA and the Congressional inquiries were the 50s equivalent of the…

Or at S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ...

Wertham gets an unfair shake from nerd types. He was one of the first white mental health professionals on a national level to speak to the behavioral health needs of African-Americans, pre-Civil Rights era; so much so that famed novelist Ralph Ellison dedicated a whole section of his second book, Shadow and Act, to…

Runner-ups:
“You Don’t Know Dick”
“Bruce Wayne: I Love My Dick!”
“Nightwing: A Big Dick”

I forgot about him. He looks like Jack Nicholson’s Joker at the art museum before Keaton’s Batman arrives.

Thank you for the great article. I’ve owned a Surface Pro 3 for the past year or two and kept ignoring One Note. Now I hope to get a fuller use from my tablet.