spoiler: it's Gorsuch, apparently.

Well, she only got that title five years ago…it's a name that Marvel has to keep using, lest they lose the rights to DC, and I have a feeling they were making a very calculated decision based on potential feature films.

This is kind of a lame answer, but what I really love to seek out are extended versions of hits that I already know very well in their official release form, because even if you know it's coming there's this fun element of surprise when the song feels like it's supposed to end, but instead it zig-zags and keeps going.…

Does it have to be a current one? I've always thought Legion of Super Heroes deserved a good cartoon series, one that doesn't go out of its way to be hip or modern, and that leans into the soap opera, like a more well-planned X-Men. Legionnaires generally have excellent, distinguishable character designs, cool powers,…

Hmm, I don't quite buy that. First of all, Thanos's characterization was pretty dang strong, at least from his inception through the Infinity Gauntlet series; Starlin knew what he was doing with that guy. Thanks was no more powerful than, for example, the Beyonder, who was last seen about 5 years prior to Infinity…

Well, Carol's a tough one. She started out as a feminist caricature written by a bunch of dudes in the 70s; maybe they meant well, but the did not particularly know what they were doing. Probably the two major events in her early history were the time she got brainwashed and raped by Immortus's son (and the Avengers…

The nadir started probably even earlier than Infinity War, but I maintain there was a bright spot in between then and now

John Byrne's Fantastic Four run established that each culture perceives Galactus's balls in their own way

you tell 'em comrade

That was even going on during the really bad part of the 90s. It was like the one good thing Marvel was doing in '94 or so.

I'm talking very specifically about the later-90s to early-00s. The Spidey books dropped the clone stuff as un-subtly as possible and started being fun again; they stopped doing stupid hologram covers, and 20-part crossovers, and replaced them with fifth-week events like the 'minus-1' issues or the 'Marvels Comics'…

I kind of get it. You could argue that Hollywood has proven there's a market for these IPs, and therefore Marvel should invest in top talent to create new ones; on the other hand, you could argue that Holllywood is succeeding at least in part because of nostalgia, and that the number of new superheros created after…

I'd just say that Marvel's creative stagnation started in the mid-00s, not the mid-90s. There was definitely a mid-90s nadir, but they bounced back with the "Heroes Return" titles. Busiek's Iron Man and Avengers and Waid's Captain America were all great.

Totally agree about the rapey part of "Extraloveable", I try to put it in early-80s context both of a culture even more blind to rape and of Prince's general line-crossing sexual forwardness (i.e. "Sister"). I also feel like the 'Jaime Starr' portion of "Do Yourself a Favor" is kind of a minus, but both those songs…

"So I'm ready to sign, but I need some clarification on this 'boob window' clause.."

I love that one! Lots of Wendy and Lisa action. Have you heard Extraloveable?

I don't have to watch that to have an attitude

You have impeccable taste

I'm so addicted to all the bootleg stuff on YouTube that I don't really miss the album cuts right now.

I've only seen the trailers, but they do seem to be walking a strange line, constantly referring to her as 'dead' but showing that she's vital and healthy. Well, let's just say she's a werewolf and be done with it