Even better - "I'm not a troll but I'm going to troll the boards in protest until I'm bored with doing it".

Definitely the best guest one they've had.

I think DC is making a Hail Mary and trying to piece together an actual continuity like Marvel has… not that they haven't tried and failed so many, many times.

Moore mentioned that much of the references in the art is done by O'Neill, to the point that Moore doesn't know some of them.
Literary references aside, what I thought was more brilliant - something along the lines with Tim Powers - was taking the infamous (for the time) Rolling Stones 'tribute' and making it into a…

Made more amazing that it was mostly a 'road' album made inbetween stops on a tour.

Rockville? Forgettable? It would've been if they had stuck with the original rock version.

Document is a throwback to REM's influences and almost sounds out of place, resembling more like Wire (not suprising, considering they did a cover of them on the album), Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, etc. It's an unusual album, one that's hard to see fit in the line between LRP and Green.

Life's Rich Pageant is a cover song, Stipe improvising over an instrumental track, a rehash of some of their oldest songs, and a few new tracks. Document makes for a more compelling album.

Hippies?
The US wasn't never physics-friendly, even today. When I was an undergrad, the department (whose professors were 80% outside the US) would regularly lose their students to the School of Engineering because they realized Physics wouldn't involve making money.
A better statement would be "How Hitler Saved…

Always amusing to see unemployed trolls deeply concerned about people being fired. Hey, other people have to use the library computer too!

I would throw S.H.I.E.L.D. into the mix as well, for including historical figures as actual superheroes/supervillians, instead of namechecking cameos.
Between that, Mystery Men and the Marvels Project, I admit it - Marvel has suckered me into being interested in what they are doing again.

His contemporaries are worth a look - try Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. If you really liked Planetary, Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is in the general vicinity (especially of Issue #13 of Planetary)

Aerotech Reference
Is actually explained in the second part.

Ah, but the Taliban are only sometimes evil - just ask Rambo!

Hmmm… I thought it was a sly, insightful mocking of Hitler's style of meaningless, rambling speeches that mainly was designed to grip an audience with extraneous factors rather than a contradicting, low-content, incoherent text.

In Other News:
Dog Bites Man.

Yeah, it's sad when you can read newspaper headlines on the ground in FEAR, but they're an unreadable blur in FEAR3. Something about that screams "Console ported to PC"…

A Green Lantern movie would be interesting if the Green Lantern in the movie hadn't had his imagination surgically removed. A BFG? Really?

Really? Network execs love clip shows, and are the only people that love clip shows. (Hell, Fox execs wanted two per season for the Simpsons). Any show that manages to subvert it and do something funny in the process is okay in my book.

I assumed the initial question was self-directed.