Point worth chewing on: in Marvel's Darth Vader series, Vader visits Geonosis and encounters a last surviving Queen. She's apparently sterile and pretty much insane, using a working droid factory to turn battle droids into her surrogate children.

Disney already has a Leia replacement available, and she's done the part before and works well with Mark Hammil.

Tuesday's good. I'll just have to keep an eye out for when it goes up.

Well, shit, it's ready, but also on my home computer. So I can't post it today. But if you book me for next week, I'll post it.

(I'm really posting to ask when my Love Fest is due. I think it's the 19th, but I'm not 100%.)

The Force is strong in my family. I have it. My father has it. My walkie talkie has it.

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Spike Windu, but he's white and spends most of his time on a planet of shapechanging robots.

There's always his kidnapped grandson, Finn Windu.

Point of clarity: Savage is Maul's brother, not Mace's.

Well, they could have gone the EU route and had even less than half of Maul survive.

There are volcanoes in Alaska. Anchorage got hit by some amount of ash in 2009.

I thought A-Force failed because 1) it went from a book about every woman in the MU to just six women, and 2) it alienated people when, four issues in, it flipped the entire creative team.

I did not. I'm trying to phase out my Bendis. Word has it he's off Guardians in a few months and they'll reboot with a new writer (somebody freaking tell me it's Cullen Bunn), so there's some progress.

I am not up on Tamaki. The criticism I read of Supergirl: Being Super is that she basically turned Kara into Clark. I hope this isn't a pattern with her—taking a female character and giving them a male character's story. That seems like the opposite of progress to me.

Well, yes. I have to remind myself that I am no longer the target demographic for comics and a "name" writer who gets brought into a title may not have the longstanding respect or understanding of a character that older readers do.

And I don't mind "dark" where it fits, and "light" is not for everybody. Patsy Walker has been to some dark places, so the current "light" tone of the comic has to sort of nod at that and move past it.

I wouldn't call that strictly true. Largely, Bruce has been the only "Hulk" for most of his run, with only villains (and Jen) also getting gamma powers. Rick Jones briefly became the Hulk in 1986, and he was pretty much as savage as Bruce. It only went on for less than a year, but it happened. Betty had a lot of…

Thank you. This is not really me "back" so much as making an appearance and needing some forum to vent about the Hulk book. I owe you guys a Comic Love Fest, and it's actually already written. I'm just waiting for my turn to post it.

Oh, sure, now there's a comic-related post.