I was curious about this, so I went into the Disney Store the other day, and Spider-Man by far made up their most popular toy section. Guardians was a close second.

A giant X in the name of its current crossover event, a focus on Sabretooth during said event, a huge amount of press around the death of Wolverine… etc, etc, even the Marvel Unlimited Book Club podcast is featuring eXiles right now.

You remind me of a penis.

I thought there was a good amount of potential in the mutant town concept. One of the worst things about House of M was that it meant we never got to see another District X or see X-Factor deal with a huge number of "strange mutant" cases.

Mutant leadership is also heavily politicized right now, to the point that the discrimination is against a group that significant portions are declaring is

I can't find Mexico on this globe, but it's all opaque orange except for the weird lines of longitude, so I can't really see what's going on.

Cat Woman didn't become a cat burglar until after the debut of Black Cat as such. Before that, she was just a thief with a gang. So Black Cat is in fact the prototypical superhero comics example of that type of character.

In more important superhero news, there are reports that Fox is developing a tv show based on PAD's X-Factor Investigations concept!!!

Marge's final solution seems much nicer than Hitler's.

Hmmmm… Well, I'd say that Arrow is a great hour-long superhero drama. Just because it doesn't suit your tastes doesn't change that. There's no "lowering of standards" for those of us who do enjoy it.

I enjoy how Benedict Arnold's story involves him going to New Brunswick and then leaving because everyone there hated him and thought he was a dick.

The early reviews for Season 2 are quite good. I thought season 1 started pretty weak but had a good finish. It's not as good as it could be, but overall I'd give it a recommend… IF, you are okay with your lead characters being villainous. If you want to root for your main characters look elsewhere.

At this point, to deny his parodic aspects would be to deny his existence; for Herzog realizes that the meaning of his very being has been shaped and reinterpreted through the distaff lenses of the media gaze. Should he retreat from them, he risks being annihilated all together, a walking fleshy husk that used to be…

You're the worst.

Did Johnson say that before or after he greeted Saudia Arabia's King with an "Ahlan wa Sahlan" on the South Lawn of the White House as a way to express how "greatly honored" the United States was to receive a man whose style of governance he professed "real admiration" for?

You go man: Way to stick it to a hypothetical group of people with an inapt analogy that relies on a hypothetical set of development policies for the ultimate purpose of forming the "hypocrisy fallacy" — that evidence of a contradictory moral behaviour can somehow change the fundamental ontological meaning of a…

Maybe, but if so then she is not suited to the role of Laurel. There were too many moments where she began totally inappropriately for the situation.

Goddammit, now I won't accept anyone else as Carol! …Maybe Strahovski.

Yeah, it's kind of super-great that Aoki had to drop out. The only downside is that we lose the fun meta-joke where she's both an actress on the show and someone Oliver mentioned having sex with in a season one episode.

Ugh, the wounds from Ultimatum still fester.