here's a guess: unless they cast ewan macgregor or harvey keitel, you'll see no schlong. or the guy who plays hodor, i guess.

i'm reading this entire newswire post as sean o'neal being just as outraged as the rest of everyone else by the redesign.

hate to be this cynical but why are we even questioning whether our society or any other would dehumanize clones? the answer is that of course we would and the evidence crops up time and again throughout history - slavery wasn't something that existed for all time until abraham lincoln single-handedly ended it with a…

see, this is why i think they should formally adopt the idea of time passing on a reasonable basis - yes, the marvel universe has shown peter age from teenager to someone in his mid-twenties, but only over the course of more than 40 years - which means that someone like the punisher, whose service in vietnam is pretty…

nice - thanks a lot, sir or madame.

yeah, i'm actually surprised heller didn't mention this: while i wasn't ever a fan of the New Universe, i collected comics long enough and trawled through enough back issue bins that i became passingly familiar with the general shape of the broader storyline. and the striking thing to me was how the general reactions…

whoa - that downvote was an accident; i was trying to hit the reply button! sorry, man.

stilted art? no way, man - ron wagner was great! his work wasn't flashy and could come across as almost draftsman-like at times, but his command of gesture and composition were unparalleled - his postures looked sculpted, not posed and his attention to detail was incredible; he mixed in fine detail when needed, such…

are there collected editions of any of the gold key stuff around anywhere? i only had a handful of issues i got from those old "4 for $1" bags drugstores used to have, but i have really fond memories of the gold key stuff - as well as their Star Trek and Twilight Zone comics. seriously, the gold key stuff would have…

larry hama on GIJoe [and, later, Nth Man] was also a highlight from this era of marvel greats. as was peter david on Spectacular Spider-Man - Death of Jean deWolfe was pretty great [although that sounds weird to say.] i think Kraven's Last Stand would have come out around this era, too - latter end of it, but i seem…

of boobs?
d'oh.

ha! up until two days ago, i almost certainly wouldn't have understood this reference, but luckily for me i just started reading "Guards, Guards!" well done, sir or madame.

two reactions: 1] you sound like me when i get drunk and go to hockey games with the express intent of rooting against the home team. it's a lot of fun, i'm not judgin' you. 2] Whitey?! please, dude, that is not the preferred nomenclature - "melanin-deficient," if you please.

that lack of expectation and, to be honest, a little bit of dis-interet was how i went into both "Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "The Princess Bride" and they both wound up becoming two of my favorite movies.

i don't mean to be repetitive but flynn's In the Country of the Blind touches on this idea of major shifts in history - his science postulates the ability to identify nodes of critical mass where seemingly simple or innocuous events can have out-sized importance. [for want of a nail, the kingdom was lost, as it were.]

it doesn't deal with time travel, but michael flynn's In the Country of the Blind deals with a lot of the same issues you guys are raising - the lynchpin model of history and causal reactions, as well as efforts to control those tides for purposes both selfish and altruistic.

damn, dude! nice catch.

i'll bring beer if meritxell brings popcorn.

like for your reference to the OTHER site, even if i never go there.

raising prices for "collectible" packaging or pushing ugly t-shirts and dull, useless DVDs are not what i'm talking about - yes, it would have cost more money to convince people to continue paying for CDs… but when the alternative is as bleak as the industry itself has told us the last decade has been, maybe reducing…