I think the X-Men were originally a metaphor for outsiders generally, and over the years the civil rights analogies have gotten more and more explicit.

"It's the 80s/Do a lot of coke/and vote for Ronald Reagan!"

That's the same dude who played Aquaman on Smallville and got to shout "Wet — and ready!" that one time.

It's fake kryptonite, so I guess he'll grow three days' stubble and drink in a bar someplace until he gets into a fight with Clark Kent at an auto yard.

It was part of the JLU merchandising - Lex from the waist up, holding some kryptonite, on a squarish base. I think there were a fair number of characters who got the same treatment.

Yep. Most of ours are from my daughter (when she was a toddler, Mrs. Pontifex took her to a comic shop and asked her what she wanted to get me for Father's Day, and, well, there you go) and my sister-in-law who worked at Hot Topic for a few years and got an employee discount.

Were they all figures from Criterion movies?

I bet Duke Silver would think it's cool.

I would be weirded out by a collection of hundreds of these things, but we've got a dozen or so around the house and I have two or three in my office at work. They're fine. They're goofy, but no more so than my action figures or concert posters or Lex Luthor paperweight.

I think the polite term is "hustling."

This is good news for anyone who habitually downloads weird movies from YouTube, then puts them in a folder on an external hard drive and never actually gets around to watching them.

Aw, man. We regret the error.

Exactly like 4 out of the last 8, in fact.

Given how often IL governors wind up in jail, this comment made me smile.

My sister-in-law worked at Hot Topic for a few years. Every present she gave anyone in the family was a Funko Pop.

Dixie Carter is still with us.

That exchange student from Better Off Dead?

"Hey, Butt-head, remember when Bonaduce fought Geraldo on pay-per-view?"

What fresh hell is this?

This is the correct answer.