But you still drive a car, don’t you? That coaster fear I developed as a kid is one of the reasons I became terrified of all vehicles. The idea of me being the one in control of one is not in the best interest of humanity.

As a budding teenager, I went to an amusement park for the last time. As I kept riding the rides and the coasters, a tiny wet stain on my pants grew progressively larger with each ride.

The belt thing always proves tricky. The funny thing is, I don’t even need to wear a suit and tie to work! (And I, well, have my unmentionables picked up at home to be laundered, then returned to me, because hey, I can’t keep ruining washing machines.)

I can’t drive a car, ride a bicycle, balance a checkbook, do laundry, play sports, be a man of the world, extract secrets from prisoners, or be an alpha in today’s world. But I damn know how to tie a tie. Learned at 16.

They are. And yet I feel I fail at being competent at most of the things of this list. Though not for a lack of trying!

I have a three year old daughter who, upon catching eye of a port-a-potty, can charmingly point it out as a TARDIS. She loves superheroes, specially the Hulk, and we have watched the first Avengers movie a few times. She loves action scenes in movies in general, and she doesn’t care if it stars a boy or a girl. At the…

Funny, but wrong. They operate like it’s 1995.

Ideally, I’d want a movie with Grant in it that works as a movie, with whatever new elements they want to bring in that work, while at the same time keeping the show the way it is, but more refined to accommodate the new viewers coming in from the movie.

I think that the reductionist, simplistic way of putting it is: fans want Grant Gustin to be The Flash, because he *is* already. And the fans (we) want the movie-going audience (and the general audience too) to see him in the role and embrace him the way we have. It’s mostly a matter of sentiment and attachment. DC…

I too fell out of comics for a long long time, and the best thing for lapsed Marvelites is Marvel Unlimited. It’s so near to perfect you will weep. I swear, having the whole Marvel Universe available to me has rekindled my relationship to these characters I thought had become exclusive to the Marvel movies.

I was going to argue with you and say that Peter Parker is defined by his ethnic background, but then I realized it’s because I want to see Miles Morales be the only Spider-Man of color. Or the first one, at least.

True. It’s like the Gods should have thought of this sooner. But isn’t the juxtaposition part of what makes the whole thing interesting? I’m thinking of Marc Spector, I guess.

Duly noted. I’ll check it out. I actually prefer the color palette used here to the earthier tones in Mrs. Marvel’s Alphona artwork. But the second the preview opened, I thought to myself, “They’re gonna make him a Muslim kid, I bet,” and there it was! (Making him as likeable as Kamala is a taller order, though.)

To me the biggest crime there is that haircut. My dad wouldn't let me get that... in 1995.

I liked it too, but... aesthetically, tonally...doesn't it kinda seem like they're going for a "Mrs. Marvel" thing there? (Which I'm all for, BTW.)

Waaay back in the day, super Marvel nerd me only collected one DC title, the Howard Porter-illustrated The Ray. When he later graduated on to JLA, I was proud of him like when your local band goes platinum. But this stuff is gorgeous and is the only title from this batch that truly caught my attention.

YES.

...but the bullet refused to kill.

It’s idiotic, is what it is. Men having the gall to even attempt this expecting to work, scares me. If I ever catch another man attempting to do this around me, I’m gonna encourage the woman to laugh in his face.

What if... Just to further cement him down the line, J. Jonah Jameson? But sort of British and younger and more lovable? Where was Jolly Jonah during Civil War?