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In Shaq's defense, it sounds like he's joking in the clip.

I don't assume I've switched universes every time I confuse Jeff Daniels with Bill Pullman…

Actually, Galactus uses his space ship to convert the planet to energy, which he then consumes. The beauty of that system is that it works even on cube planets, if that's what Jack Kirby insists on drawing this week

"The Flaming Homer is gross, so instead I'll make a gin sour that is also blue." Well, okay.

Video fails to deliver. Drawing at :30 of 'the united states' looks more like a Goldfish cracker than anything else.

It definitely makes me appreciate the MCU that much more, that Avengers movies don't just look like dorkfests

Whoa, a Gates fan? That's next level right there. I'm an Ultra Boy fan myself. One power at a time, I say!

Heh…it's funny that the same people who go on and on about the Greatest Generation are the first to excoriate young liberals for punching a Nazi in the jaw

Yeah, but that's my point — why does Barry have to have a dead parent to work for the police? Do all police have tragic backstories? No, that's silly. He's just a guy who does a thing. It's not like it comes up constantly, even in the show; basically the formula in season 1 was that a new bad guy would be identified,

I mean, you might as well ask why he works for the police, right? Flash lives in a world where lightning gave him superspeed and his hometown is routinely menaced by time travelers from the future and psychic talking apes; the fact that he uses his tremendous speed to be a superhero is the least surprising part of

A short list of superheroes whose origins prominently involve their parents getting killed includes Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, aka the three biggest super-heroes of all time, so it's a massive cliché. And in the comics, Barry was kind of unique; he got these powers, and he was interested in them in the way that

This is the kiss of death for basically every comic book adaptation: if your primary motivation is servicing a franchise, then the movie or show you're working on is going to suffer. That's exactly why The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2 are the weakest MCU movies.

I mean, he moved in with them when he was a kid. Her dad is basically his dad. Maybe it shouldn't gross me out.

To be honest, getting all the way through season 1 was a real struggle for me, and there were definitely multiple people in my life who were aghast that I wasn't more excited about the whole thing, especially since they do a lot of fan service both to the 1990 show and to Prison Break, and I was a fan of both of those

But Goldfinger was actually convincing those gangsters to join his scheme before he killed them en masse, as if that's the only way to capture their souls or something

Which, by the way, made no sense. I mean, first the one guy is like "I don't want in on this plan," and Goldfinger is all "haha of course! Merely step this way" and kills that guy, but then he also kills all the other ones…why all the subterfuge Goldfinger? I'll tell you why: because that scene where he meets with all

I was hoping that would be one of the spoofed ones, because it's so clearly fake, and so weird that the commercials insist these are 'not actors' when they are in fact reacting to something that is not happening in front of them

I actually like Orca more than Jaws. Good on ya Dino

First off, I think Angel going evil was always Joss's plan…

I'm one of the people who thought Iron Fist should be played by a Chinese or Chinese-American actor. My reasoning is, there really aren't a lot of opportunities for that among Marvel heroes, and quite frankly nobody cares about Iron Fist. He's a D-lister at best. Yeah, you can make a good story with a white male