Wait wait wait wait — are you telling me there are high school history classes that teach, at any depth, about what happened after the Civil War? That doesn't jibe with my experience at all. As far as I can remember, the last week of history class was a bunch of shouted phrases like "the Gilded Age,"…

Apparently, side effects of Nomolestol may include gynecomastia.

I don't think Wildish knows shit from Shinola.

And Patriot and Hawkeye right below them. And farther to their right, Adam Warlock and Clea. Clea! And the second Captain Marvel, which might be even more remarkable than Clea but is less interesting to a Ditko fan like me.

I think I'm confused — what makes the SF Squeecast a "fancast"? McGuire, Cornell, Bear, and Valente are all professional writers, with Valente being nominated for the Best Novel Hugo in 2010 and McGuire (as Mira Grant) the last two years. Thomas is the editor of Apex Magazine and has written a Hugo-Award winning…

Of course they can include the picture of Aldrin on the moon in an Armstrong obituary. He took one of the most famous, if not the most famous, pictures in the history of man. I think that's a greater accomplishment than "got his picture taken on the moon."

Jean / Scott hasn't been cool since they were young and in love, and one of them was committing suicide on the moon. After that, they went from creepy retcon / "abandon wife and child" to the most boring people in comics.

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.