Wait, did the AV Club just get scooped with news about themselves?

For the record, Marvel has Power Man (the villain, then Luke Cage) and Power Woman (Jessica Jones, humoring her husband), while DC has Power Girl and (the short-lived) Power Boy. There was also a Power Man who showed up for one early Batman-Superman team-up who turned out to be a robot Supes was using for one of his…

It got canceled when everyone involved proved to be insufficiently bad dudes.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when they were writing it. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to craft a scorching burn for someone who really, truly deserves every word, and they clearly took care to make it count.

There are still a few zealots who insist the Pootherans are just prolapsed Catholics.

The first Assassin's Creed for me. I'd already played the far superior sequel, and picked up the first one for cheap to see what it was like. It was… okay, but the legendarily clunky controls were at their earliest and clunkiest. So when the time came to mix it up with my Templar nemesis, which meant fighting my way…

Done and done!

13% high fructose corn syrup.

Preorder and get a registered nurse on call in case you die of excitement!

Lawrence. Of. Arabia.

NOT EVERYTHING IS A METAPHOR!

My LCS packages all the freebies in brown paper wrapping ahead of time and just hands those out for efficiency's sake. Since I have to work that afternoon, I'm just going to swing by on my way and pick one up.

Didn't PG have a male Teen Titans equivalent for a while? Power Boy? I think he kept the boob window as, I guess, a pec window. Then he got killed off.

When I was a kid, my dad bought a big cardboard box of old comics from a neighbor who was moving, so I would up with some cool old stuff in there. Like an early Avengers issue (the one where the Swordsman joins the team as a double agent for the Mandarin) and a '60s JLA (wherein Kanjar Ro makes duplicates out of the…

I think it helps that all the comics-related sneering and general negativity gets relegated to the Newswire "[Publisher] Exclusive Preview" articles.

BARNBURNERS OR GTFO!

Aw, thanks buddy. You rock too.

So the new Lovecraft-ish expansion for Hearthstone came out this week, with the accompanying rejiggering of various game modes. They spotted everyone a free C'Thun card, so surprise surprise, everyone and their grandma was playing a C'Thun deck this week. Not me, though, because I am far too lazy to put a new deck…

Space blessings upon the anniversary of your expulsion from the womb!

Adrian Pasdar also voices Iron Man in the various Disney Marvel cartoons, so all he needs now is to show up in a comic and he's got the hat trick.