My problem with it then, as now, is that it's only done pertaining to the female in a straight partnership. I can tell you from experience gay men don't do this, and I don't think lesbians do. I've never heard of a straight woman asking her fiance's parents for permission. So it seems suspect to me. More than anything…

I have no idea how it's supposed to be respectful. I was not on that side of the debate. Frankly, it confuses me because I'm in a same-sex marriage and these kind of gender-based protocols make no sense when stripped of the traditional context.

I feel like a lot of us had this discussion a few months ago, and a lot of the commentariat were defending the tradition of asking your girlfriend's father for marriage permission (because it was about "respect" or whatever). Have we all finally decided that's not cool now that Rhea Butcher has weighed in?

Really, in the late 80s, every other issue featured fully naked Wolverine doing something violent, sometimes in really inappropriate situations (as when he was escorting young Katie Power through the dead of winter in New York). I feel like one of Wolverine's main functions in this era was to gender-balance nudity in…

I hear her solo title is pretty good. Haven't read it myself though.

Please, no.

Yeah, that was supremely fucked up. At least Claremont did what he could to highlight the problem and fix it.

Yes. Rogue absorbed Carol's memories and personality and functionally had dissassociative disorder for years, when the women would swap control of the body. Carol herself was basically tabula rasa, went to space and became binary. She was pretty kickass around the time of the Brood Saga in X-Men, and Rogue-as-Carol…

There's plenty of ways to tell a story with less exposition. That was basically Lost's stock-in-trade for years. Not to mention that many of the best comics don't start out with a heavy origin story; they tend to fill that stuff in later. (Dr. Strange is a very notable and timely example; he didn't get an origin story…

Not in a prequel, sorry.

All of these concerns loom large for me as well. Difficult to believe they didn't think of this; maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

Sadly, I thought Fuller would be the man to do that. Apparently, he's the franchise in a different direction: up its own ass.

Oh, thank goodness. Another prequel. I was worried that we were in real danger of an original, open-ended narrative.

Thank God. That was getting awkward for all of us.

How WOULDN'T I peg Vin Diesel?

From the looks of it, one or both of them was definitely growing a couple inches, if you know what I mean.

Oh, snap.

I don't recommend the chocolate ass cookies. I would opt for Tagalongs instead.

They really look like they are going to kiss each other in that picture.

ALF was just a raging asshole in general.