I dropped my little girl off at sleep away camp for the first time. It went very smoothly, she's going to have a wonderful time because she's been begging to do this since she was seven, and my heart is in pieces.

Sweden has no President, hence no Vice President, so if they need someone killed I assume they just send Rooney Mara.

The true villain here is Genevieve Koski.

…for violence. I understand.

After a lot of soul-searching and shenanigans, they all (except Screech) come together to write a bland, sappy new school song.

I don't understand why people like the West Wing. Like myself; I like it but I don't understand why.

If that happened my almost-ten-year-old daughter would have yet to have lived under a Vice President who has never shot anyone.

This made me remember the episode where Screech, Slater, Tori, and Zack all compete to write a new school song for Bayside. Screech's is presented as the worst, but it is in fact the least terrible.

You don't even have to be super-strong, just leave them in the cupboard for a year or two.

Oh well. At least I still have Lazarus, right? No disrespect to Rucka's superhero work, which is often very good, but he's at his best when he has a flawed antiheroine trapped in a sick system, which I doubt Diana will be allowed to become.

At this point the only thing that would make sense to me would be if all of her origin stories were true, in the Neil Gaiman multiple mythologies sense, which would make her more mysterious. She's lived many lives, she's sort of the eternal champion of a mysterious lost tribe, etc.

I guess this means no more Black Magick for a while.

Man, there were so many X-Force asides that went right over my head as a twelve-year-old, Shatterstar and Rictor going to the club and all the girls want to dance with them because they're gorgeous but they're uncomfortable with that and just want to hang out together and so forth.

I haven't seen any of the movies she's directed, but she's clearly got ambition to do the sort of big international emotional historical drama romance that Hollywood used to make all the time, stuff like The English Patient or Out of Africa. I bet she could do a good adaptation of something like Chabon's Gentlemen of…

She was great because Jolie really is a deeply intimidating screen presence, which is an important ingredient in an action hero.

Just like in school, your first answer is probably the right one.

I like mutants with weird powers.

Maggott is a great character and the Joe Kelly issues of X-Men with him are wonderful.

There are some pretty decent Gambit stories out there, but he's most interesting as a character when he's being portrayed as deeply flawed and therefore not heroic: in the Age of Apocalypse, for example, or in his initial interactions with Bishop where neither guy comes off that well. There is a lovely 90s one-shot…

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