Didn't they wipe her mind because Chris Claremont realized that something drastic needed to be done about the character and was in a position to rehabilitate her in X-Men after the Avengers office had so horribly misused her? She also took a new name almost a full year before Monica Rambeau was introduced.

The eye thing is kinda nifty.

As long as Russell keeps writing in that vein, I'm ok with the title of the book not being "Prez."

If only the exact same assholes weren't bitching about what Mark Russell plans to do with Snagglepuss, too.

The finale of Christopher Priest's Power Man and Iron Fist is still the most genuinely surprising comic I've ever read. I'd be sad not to get all the stories that have been written with Danny of late, but holy hell would that have been a way to go out for good.

And if they are, they're flukes.

What the fuck is this Beta Ray Bill bullshit? Thor's a deity who we sometimes call an alien, not an actual alien. They're pandering for good interstellar press.

I'm still flummoxed that no one sees fit to bring up Sam in that conversation.

They definitely invited it at the beginning, but they pivoted hard on how they wrote her after the writer's strike. Misogynistic viewers just continued to treat her like the character who half-heartedly gave Walt a handjob on his birthday long after it was appropriate.

From now on I'm going to read all fanboy whinging in a curmudgeonly Russian accent.

I'm all for not fanboying one of Marvel or DC over the other, but to say that Batman's been unengaged with social justice is just dishonest. Snyder's run in particular was very engaged, with "Superheavy" and Duke's introduction as centerpieces. And that was explicitly the onus for DC You, which was their strongest…

"The X-Men are supposed to be a metaphor for diversity! How am I supposed to relate to them if you replace the five white kids with a black woman, a commie, some blue demon and a goddamn Canadian?"

…I'm honestly not sure whether you'd love or hate the Secret Empire #0 twist.

The initial pitch was for the Braddock Academy kids, which totally parses. While the established kids just kind of flail around or die (and I get why people didn't like their treatment), Anachronism, Cullen, Nara, Apex, and Kid Britain go through a very satisfying arc.

Point: both Midnighter and Night Thrasher are delightful.

I'll count my blessings I live in Seattle. There are three main comics stores nearby I can think of; One is a neat collectable-focused one in Pike Place Market that gets a bunch of the tourist traffic, one is a massively successful establishment downtown whose owner is always there and upbeat about everything, and the…

At this point, they have to understand that creator-owned options are established, they're no longer the endgame for writers interested in comics, and adjust their talent acquisition accordingly.

It's an alt-right dogwhistle they picked up from the neo-Nazis, who've used it for decades. H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. "88" = "HH" = "Heil Hitler."

I'm working a temp reception gig, and I've seen a distressing number of clients signing up for appointments with an "88" at the end of their e-mail address.

That's a mean way to talk about Rihanna.