"I've got a great idea for Nightcrawler, lets play up his faith being entirely dour and then mutilate him…that's never happened before, right?"

As is the natural state of Ramos' clothing decisions.

There's still pretty huge misunderstanding about bisexuality and a lot of it when you break it down devolves from assuming homosexuality is a choice.

A lot of that also had to do with writers just kind of forgetting Bobby existed, so that when he popped up again, they just assumed he wasn't in a relationship. I mean, Opal was probably his best relationship and that was just ignored at one point.

X-Factor was the beginning of Marvel's fascination with the O5, which as a long time reader, I have never understood. The original X-Men were generally kind of an after thought (so much so that they were shuffled off into reprints and defacto cancellation). The All New All Different X-Men were the core that got…

Alan Davis' solo run on Excalibur is still one of my favorite comic runs ever.

One of the things that I loved about X2 was how Singer was able to visualize how Nightcrawler would actually use his powers. It's something writers/artists haven't been able to get right for a long time.

What's funny is, at the time Morrison even fully expected them to bring back Magneto but Marvel went out of their way to do it in the most backwards way possible. It amazes me how poorly they treat books that are actually enjoyed by a large number of their readership.

The comic industry is so insular though that getting any kind of credible news is going to be difficult. Even the creators who have/can distance themselves from Marvel and DC aren't likely to talk about anything going on there (at least while they're actively working) because they also have to work with people who…

What was infuriating to read/listen to after House of M was Quesada/Marvel's idea of what a minority population actually is.

That's Marvel as a whole now and it's gotten a bit worse since being absorbed by Disney, where they're basically looked at as an IP breeding ground now. It's not say good books can't be published there but they're not large enough in profile to stick around that long, and the larger franchise books have multiple…

I really don't buy what Bendis and Marvel are selling on this at all, and starts to feel like back tracking because the other person involved here has completely wiped his hands of Marvel for all intents and purposes.

Right, from everything I've heard, Remender was supposed to take over the X-Men franchise after Secret Wars. Pretty much all of Hickman's Avengers stuff was laid out in the very beginning and you also saw signs of it early on in Bendis run with references to Jean and the Phoenix, Cyclops' "mutant revolution" and a…

He also has a following combined with the following that anyone of the long standing Marvel concepts/books that will reach a readership level so Marvel really doesn't have to care about what the books are doing.

This is a world where aliens, gods, super soldiers, men with armor that has the power of entire armies, among a great deal of other things exist. So focusing on mutants being 1 to 1 comparisons for people who discriminated against in our world rings largely false since none of those other things exist either.

I think it's a little more disappointing that you can only look at this from Dipper's point of view.

Dippy Fresh reminds me of every time I've moved and had to get new friends, and then be told by my old group of friends they "found a new Steve" (who matched my basic physical requirements — this somehow happened multiple times). So yeah, Dipper being replaced by a "hipper" version of himself hit a little close to…

Mabel came into the show more confident of the two and seen that foundation chipped at again and again until the breaking point came when Dipper really wasn't going to be in her life anymore. One of the big things this show has done is shown how important people and support are to Mabel and it's entirely necessary…

And yet, Gravity Falls had the highest ratings on Disney XD.

The show's not for us.