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I'm particularly ticked at him for signing off on the CIA's coup in Iran, thus setting the precedent for overthrowing democratic governments throughout the Cold War for being too leftist and to protect prominent business interests, plus laying the groundwork for the 1979 revolution. Bad call, Ike. Bad call.

Dahl also wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice. He and Fleming were pals.

Well, it never really made sense for Rasputin to be the one attacking the Romanovs in the first place. They were his meal ticket!

What about Hitler's dog? And one of the Lassies! The mean one. The one that mauled Timmy.

Super-speed is an expensive power.

Doesn't he still have a few lying around his apartment in "Flash and Substance"? I guess they don't go bad very quickly.

Me am Bizarro. Goodbye nobody.

But they have Donald Trump on too much already!

I love the idea that Flashes need to eat huge amounts of food to keep up with their metabolisms. It doesn't come up much, probably because it would introduce a practical headache for the characters, but I just think it's fun. It was used for a few good gags in the Justice League cartoon, with Flash casually filling a

He got a mention during Gillen and McKelvie's Young Avengers, at least. Some interdimensional jerk or other was going around dressed like Patriot, so the team called his house to check on him. Apparently he was fine.

I've got a nicely bound two-volume copy of the Sandman Omnibus signed by Neil Gaiman, which I was given for free while interning for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. We were selling them as a fundraiser, and one got slightly damaged, so it was unsellable at the official price and I got to take it home.

Continuing to work my way through the random comics I got from my old boss, I read a whole lot of Batman & Robin, mostly post-Flashpoint. Anchoring it in their odd father-son dynamic and Bruce's attempt to impart his moral philosophy to his assassin-trained son, while struggling to be both a dad and a drill sergeant,

Jordan White also gets drawn in a lot, probably because a) he's the Deadpool editor, and Deadpool loves him some metacomedy and b) artists like drawing his mustache.

That is correct, yes.

BILLIONS OF BLUE BLISTERING BARNACLES!

Fortunately, Harvey Bullock will always be Harvey Goddamned Bullock.

And he makes such adequate pizza!

To be fair, that one Simpsons reference is most likely the sole exposure to Mary Worth most people under 40 have had. And rightly so, because good lord is Mary Worth crappy.

They killed off Hostess Pitchman Spidey and let Newspaper Spidey live! THERE IS NO JUSTICE IN THIS SPIDER-VERSE!

Oh, I have a few issues of that, acquired from somewhere or other. The publisher was "Dabel Brothers Publishing." Pretty niche, from the looks of things.