I just finished Essential Fantastic Four Vol. 1 and have now started on Vol. 2. I've got Vol. 3 in the queue — and that's the one that has the Silver Surfer/Galactus arc which is the reason I started on this in the first place. FF was never my favorite comic as a kid (my first subscriptions were to Iron Man…

Absolutely. It's not malicious at all; it's their way of saying, "We admire your acting ability, David Schwimmer! You made your character believable and relatable!"

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Naw, I don't think you're haunted by it, but it's still in the public consciousness nationally, I think. I'm still disturbed by it. But yeah, I guess it is historically more or less an attempt at a political assassination, which are not unheard of nor exclusive to Tucson.

Okay, maybe I am being oversensitive, but "gun to your head" seems just a weeee bit more specific than "gun-related humor". And I guess I forgot about all those other cities that are so well-known for having crazy people that shoot public figures point-blank in the head.

Holy shit, the TUCSON Weekly of all publications seriously uses "gun to your head" as a template question in celebrity interviews … I'm not generally the sensitive type but that seems a little bit in poor taste, given the whole, you know, that thing that happened there not long ago

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@avclub-a93a879594c13c12a83fd45ab289a022:disqus I think it's an amalgam of that story, and how The Beatles had to change their name from The Quarrymen because another band had that name, too.

I hope that stuff about Stark building Ultron is just a rumor. I mean, they've got the Ant-Man movie coming up (before the next Avengers, I think), it's the perfect opportunity to Pym shit up.

I just picked up a Kang-centric Avengers trade at a thrift store the other day. It's quite the flashback. I'd completely forgotten that Submariner and Hercules were in the Avengers in the 80s.

He hasn't been in anything since Lincoln, right? I wondered if he got extra roly-poly for that role, or if he just looks like that now.

It kind of makes sense, too, because Hank Pym was building something outside of his area of expertise, and royally fucked it up. Stark's better at his job than that. 
I was hoping that the Ant-Man movie would sort of be a prequel to Avengers 2 and set up Pym as Ultron's creator, but yeah, given Iron Man 3's emphasis on…

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Ahmedabad comedian or two in my day, but this is ridiculous!

Director: "I'm not so sure you should be smirking in this scene, Ben. It's kind of a serious scene."
Ben: "What do you want me to do then?"
Director: "Could you try to look solemn?"
Ben: "How's this?" *smirks slightly less*

Well, it's always kinda shocking when you look in the mirror after the first time you shave your head, because no matter how you wore your hair before, this is gonna be a radically different look. Plus your scalp is gonna be blindingly pale at first if you're of the light-skinned persuasion, and that also looks … not…

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So do you have to pay Rabin royalties for using the phrase "cautiously optimistic"?

Let it be, man.

I was a little confused by the use of "indiscernible" too. I'm accustomed to that word meaning opaque or mysterious when it seems like he meant something more like indistinguishable — ie bland and cookie-cutterish in nature?