Wolverine is still dead.

The "golden age" of the X-books was The New Mutants, up until the death of Doug Ramsey.

Yeah, all the scientific inaccuracies in that section (introduced by the narrator as "cold scientific fact") are what I used to help talk him down from the ledge on that one.

Swift warning.

Oh my god, when Shatner is left in the playground inside his son's body and his son goes off in his body - nightmare fuel. Just pure nightmare fuel.

What does Ellis think of superhero movies in general? I can't imagine he's a fan. Something he thought was terrible might actually be good, at least according to the fanboys and girls.

What you did there? I see it.

Meg Foster was also great in They Live, which makes a great double feature with Predator.

I don't know how we survived - oh, wait, probably because it was only pretend trauma and not actual trauma.

I know, I just think it still doesn't work. I like to upvote Simpsons references in a Pavlovian way, but I couldn't in good conscience do it this time. I just thought you should know.

The children's fare in the early years of HBO was some seriously grim shit.

The comic it's based on is one of goriest fucking things ever drawn. It always astounded me that they turned into a Saturday morning cartoon.

The Bunyip Song didn't bother me as much as the human sacrifice did.

That one falls apart because "bunyip" is actually an Australian word already.

Watership Down was put together based on the stories Adams used to tell his kids about the local rabbits.

Yeah, well there was a war on. A cold war, but still. We needed to be ready when the shit hit the fan, and conditioning started early.

I got into comics in the 80s and was a total Marvel kid, and the only other time I've bought Marvel titles in large numbers was that brief period at the beginning of the century when Marvel was desperate and creative. So yeah, I think you're on to something.

This came out during the brief period when I worked at a comic shop, so I have actually read every single one of these issues. Although that was fifteen years ago… Ymir's Beard, I'm old… and I remember enjoying it. And having to scramble to try to reorder the "no comics code" issue despite the fact that Marvel didn't…

Excalibur was the "fun" X-book for a good long while, before it, naturally, went to shit.

It has long been phrased in an out-moded evolutionary model. That the Neandertals reacted to the Cro-Magnons the same way that modern humans are reacting to mutants - that there's going to be a war and when the dust settles, there will only be one species of human left standing.