I am so watching "Jersey Shore Shark Attack" . . . .

At least they managed to avoid including any Jewish superheroes like Kitty Pryde or the Thing . . . .

It's simple. If you don't approve of homosexuality, don't date members of the same sex. But let other people do what they want. Just because the Amish prefer horse-and-buggies doesn't mean the rest of us can't drive cars . . . .

It's not a contest. Think of it of as superhero team-up against intolerance.

To be fair, I don't think that's what they were saying. They were just saying that since changing Alan's history meant cutting Obsidian (one of their few gay heroes) out of the current continuity, they might as well replace him by making Alan gay.

Alas, as time goes by, having a bunch of WW II era characters still running around get more and more problematic. You can only magically de-age the heroes and their loved ones so many times before it gets ridiculous. At some point you have to let the WW II connection go . . . .

I understand that some people object to the rebooting of an established character. But, really, that ship sailed back when Julie Schwartz first revamped all the Golden Age characters for the Silver Age, and again during the first Crisis on Infinite Earths, way back in the early eighties. So this has been standard…

For the record, DC has been featuring gay characters for years, including Renee Montoya (aka "The Question), Police Captain Maggie Sawyer, Holly Robinson (Catwoman's occasional sidekick), Starman, Obsidian, Lightning Lass (in some versions), Madame Xanadu, and umpteen Vertigo characters. So this is hardly DC's first…

Disney film notwithstanding, I'm not sure anyone considers Hugo's novel a fairy tale.

At the risk of being the guy who overlooks all the fun smutty stuff and zeroes in on a nitpicky bit of comics trivia: I have to point out that Captain Marvel Jr. was NOT a "National (DC)" character back in the 1940's. The Captain Marvel comics were originally published by Fawcett. DC didn't start publishing them…

To be fair, it's not just about religion. It's also about money.

What's the rush? The movie is still a year away. Why would anybody expect to know what it's about by now? Or who is playing who? Since when is it surprising that people aren't giving anything away about a movie that isn't even coming out until next spring?

Or, you know, he could be playing a completely new character. There's no rule that says he HAS to be playing some iconic character from the original show . . .

But did that scene really have all that much impact back then? Sure, everybody cites it as a ground-breaking moment now, but, as I understand it, it barely created any controversy at the time. NBC got a couple of letters, Star Trek got canceled later that season anyway, and, aside from that one moment, "Plato's…

With all due respect to BUFFY, XENA's "The Bitter Suite" kicked off the special musical episode thing a year or so earlier.

Well, the term "Men in Black" predates the comics and movies by decades. It's an urban legend long associated with Ufology. I believe it was originally coined by the late John Keel back in 1967.

You know, it would be funny if "Cupcake"'s real name turned out to be Finnegan.

Waiting for the inevitable Alien Surf Girls/Sharktopus crossover . . . .

Remember that his mother was Lara of the House of El. Lara El, get it? It's obviously a super-Oedipal complex!