"Marvel: Flogging a Dead Corpse for 40 Years Now"

It was Shooter. Good intentions are fine and all, but you don't learn how to make comics at the knee of Mort Weisinger and not pick up some bad habits.

I served as an alter boy in a church entirely staffed with great guys. When my dad lost his job my senior year of high school, our pastor told us I didn't have to worry about paying tuition to my Catholic high school. I know there are good priests.

1991 was not a good year to be in Serbia.

She's Eastern European, and she was primarily raised by a mutant cow woman. What I'm saying is, her name is the least of her problems.

No, they're old school. Not surprising in a Robinson comic, actually, that continuity and the history of the Marvel Universe would be respected and incorporated into a modern comic.

Rarer than hen's teeth, in all honesty.

I have a feeling that future generations of comic book writers will have to do a lot of damage control and character rehabilitation post-Fan Favorite Brian Michael Bendis.

An excellent point. I should have mentioned him among our assets.

In all honesty, having watched that Royals documentary on PBS earlier this year, I gained some respect for Lizzie II, in large part because of the work she did in WWII as a driver, where she undoubtedly picked up her gearheadedness. Also, she hated Thatcher. There's naught wrong with someone what hates Thatcher.

It's the alliteration. "Westworld" just sounds better than "Pirateworld" or what have you.

The latter. Just thinking about the former makes me queasy.

Flash Gordon

A story inspired by a Lovecraft story.

My monthly visit will be this Saturday.

I'm not big on horror movies, really. I will probably be (re)reading a lot of Lovecraft this month, and I will of course be listening to the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast's reading of "The Call of Cthulhu" as I do every year.

Just so you know, having seen only the first of those movies in the theater, you're getting ripped off.

And Captain America came out in the spring.

I'm wasting time on the AV Club. I think that tells you everything you need to know.

Supposedly the gang is working on another one, a feature length thing I think.