A silly point, but bless you for using “discrete” correctly. I swear to God, nobody knows the difference between “discrete” and “discreet” anymore.

This needs to be a thing . . . stat!

It’s a fun, old-fashioned Saturday-matinee superhero flick. Probably not enough of a blockbuster for modern audiences, but I would have loved it when I was a kid. (And, boy, was it better than the recent Syfy mini-series reboot.)

Plus, Catherine Zeta-Jones as a pirate queen!

And this is where I brag about having written…

Nice article, but you forgot the best horror movie of 1987: NEAR DARK.

(Wait. Was that not summer? Never mind.)

“The mark of a fantastic actor is their ability to so wholly inhabit a character that you lose sight of the actor themselves and only perceive the character.”

I would quibble that’s just one definition of a fantastic actor—and kinda a modern one. There are indeed actors who are genuine chameleons, vanishing into their…

Sometimes the time-travel is just a plot device. Yeah, the ending of “Yesterday is Tomorrow” makes no sense at all, but that’s not really the point; the appeal of that episode is the fun of seeing a twentieth-century pilot come aboard the Enterprise AND seeing Kirk and Co navigate “our” time. (I love the moment…

I don’t get hung up on the time-travel mechanics. The whale movie is a delightful, feel-good movie that always leaves me grinning.

And, honestly, time travel has a pretty good track record when it comes to STAR TREK: “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” “Assignment: Earth,” “All Our Yesterdays,” “Yesterday’s Enterprise,”…

Star Trek IV (aka “The One with the Whales”) is my second-favorite Trek movie, after KHAN of course.

Discovery is set in original timeline.

Discovery is set only ten years before TOS, so presumably this is a slightly younger Harry Mudd.

The first big crossover event I remember was the original Avengers-Defenders War that ran in both books over the summer of ‘73. I was hooked in a big way, but, as I recall, the whole thing was only six or seven issues in total and it didn’t spill over into the rest of the Marvel Universe, nor were any special tie-in…

Actually, I think that’s Medusa’s mother lecturing her daughter.

The speech balloon placement is awkward, but I believe it’s Medusa’s mother who is urging her to moo like a cow if necessary. Little sister Crystal is just looking on nervously as the grown-ups fight.

I still want to see Ruby pop up in a Marvel movie or TV show.

The Steve Gerber years back in the seventies remain my favorite run on THE DEFENDERS, being deliciously weird and offbeat. (Remember the killer elf?)

I was also fond of the recent FEARLESS DEFENDERS and disappointed when it was cancelled . . . . .

Which are ever so much more believable than super-hair! :)

And the Silver Surfer flies through space on a cosmic surfboard, Thor has a magic hammer, and Cyclops fires energy beams from his eyes.

Super-hair is pure comic-book craziness—in a good way.

Loved Puppy Lockjaw!

I enjoyed this, but one thought:

Back when I was a kid, in the sixties and seventies, the one thing that always bugged me about the Inhumans whenever they guest-starred in FANTASTIC FOUR or THE AVENGERS was that they only seemed to have one plot: Maximus trying to overthrow his brother. I’ll be…

Filming at sea is notoriously difficult. See also JAWS and WATERWORLD.

Works for me. I always preferred the monster-of-the-week eps anyway.