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I wouldn't expect there to be a Joe West in the movie, since AFAIK he was created for the TV series. Even if Iris's dad is a character at all, comics Iris's dad was Ira West.

TV Olsen, on "Supergirl". Also Hank Henshaw on the same show (both the comics Hank Henshaw and J'onn J'onzz's main secret identity were white in the comics).

Presumably the non-Thawne Harrison Wells of Earth-1 will be alive during the Flashpoint alternate timeline, at least, letting Cavanaugh play a third iteration of the character. (Well, we already saw him briefly when Thawne killed him, but still.)

Hopefully not. Jamming Superman and aliens into the CWverse's history throws everything off-kilter. (And throwing Argus and the DEO and Cadmus together starts to get a little much.) They've got multiple methods of crossing between worlds for crossovers— they should stick with that.

I'm more annoyed that they wasted Per Degaton on a random future tyrant, when the original concept (unassuming lab assistant who keeps getting access to time travel and becoming a global threat, only to be returned to his original situation after his defeat with no memory of the events ) would have been a great

Superhero comics have never been good with numbers. The Legion of Super-Heroes had a villain team called "The Devil's Dozen" that had five members.

Alliteration generally is all over the place, including early Superman (beginning with Clark Kent and Lois Lane).

To be fair, that's been true for long stretches of Green Arrow's history— hence the Arrowmobile, Arrowcave, red-and-yellow clad orphan sidekick, etc.

I think that became crystal clear around the time Ra's al Ghul tried to make him his heir and marry Olllie off to his daughter, if not before.

More of a running gag.

It seems like it, but the wheels are turning awfully slowly considering that they could start with a deluxe edition for umpteen dollars and still sell out.

Late 80s, but we also used a Commodore monitor. (He used a C64 for the first 2-3 years of college.)

And of course the fact that Han knows he needs to get out of town in a hurry after talking to Greedo is a big part of why he's willing to fly them to Alderaan mostly on dubious credit.

On our first VCR, the remote with a cord had one button: pause. (Which of course blanked the screen during playback. Freeze-frame? What were we, wizards?) It was mostly used during recording, if I was actively trying to cut out commercials.

Especially keeping in mind that adjusting for inflation more than doubles those prices.

Our first VHS rental was "9 to 5".

I wonder how much of that is just the current shape of the market: people who used to buy CDs are mostly fine with mp3s, while people who want a physical medium are prone to either nostalgia or the romance of analog.

To start, sure. But as the holes wear, every roll develops unique idiosyncrasies that give it personality! You know, if you're a serious listener, and not someone who just keeps an obvious knockoff Pianola in the parlor to impress their friends.

I find it very hard to believe that cassettes are cheaper to produce for a small-scale artist than CDs are, and more or less impossible to believe that it's cheaper than distributing an mp3.