I am willing to bet cash money that Chris Claremont, who was working in the Marvel offices in 1969, still has a copy of Wonder Woman #185 stashed away somewhere. Lesbian S&M gang, forcing victims to wear dog collars? That seems like half a dozen of his X-Men plots right there (not the lesbians so much, but he was…

The Daleks return ... can't we let them rest a little longer? I think I'd rather watch another arc-heavy, River-Song-centric season than another Dalek episode.

Exactly. If you don't have to make something fit in, why not do something different, make it stand out? Especially if you're doing a reboot.

X-Men: First Class. Winner. I'd forgotten it after a year, and I actually liked the movie.

Forgot Dick Tracy, yes. But those are pulp heroes, instead of superheroes. (A fine line at time.) But pulp heroes are based in the amorphous "pulp times" ('20s to '40s) because those are the heydays of the pulps and when the story type flourished.

I would classify him as a pulp hero more than a superhero, but I take your point. The Rocketeer falls into the same category, now that you mention it, as does The Phantom.

Setting a superhero movie in a non-idealized past would be interesting — different, at least. Have there been any superhero movies set in a time other than the present? Captain America in World War II and Watchmen in the '80s, but that's all I could think of. Daredevil, grim and pitched against organized crime as he…

But ... but ... red cabbage is healthy — not what kids should stay away from. Is Captain America blatantly anti-cabbage, or would he be advocating some sort of supervillain semi-cannibalism?

Hey! According to that map, Hub City is located about where Metropolis, Ill., is. According to Wikipedia, though, Hub City is in about the same spot as East St. Louis. It's only 100 or so miles off, but given the rivers should let you pinpoint location pretty accurately, it almost has to be a deliberate joke. (Or no…

Is this supposed to be funny? Because I think these guys are on to something here. E.T. was a horrible little turd, and although that shouldn't be a death sentence, I would not have been averse, as a seven-year-old child (or as a thirty-something adult), to seeing the alien die.

Almost certainly apocryphal; also, it's usually attributed to Dorothy Parker.

And I was wishing for a Manos: The Hands of Fate sequel.

Each of these novel covers is based on a specific issue. Somewhere near the top of each cover, the name of that issue is included — Amazing Adventures #3 and 7, Tales to Astonish #54, Hero for Hire #1. The plot of each issue is roughly summarized by the cover.

I would have said unloading Tuco's gun was the key. But I can't deny the power of the Ennio Morricone soundtrack.

Rick Deckard knows 300 words for rain.

Why is greyhounds' speed from the experiment measured in miles per hour, but the cheetahs' is measured in meters per second? Was there a reason for achieving maximal confusion?

It explains the wide-eyed, slack jawed look of terror the skull has in the top picture.

Sphere by Michael Crichton is an average sort of potboiler until the end ... but those last few lines caught me off guard.

I am shocked — shocked — no one has referenced this:

Also, shouldn't the Rogue ensemble have, you know, more green to it? That's been a prominent color of her costumes over the years.