Another good companion for Everest is the "What Happened" book, where Jay goes into additional detail on where the story came from.

I STILL say this.

There's a typo in this headline: It says "10" instead of "30."

I honestly don't know which is more quotable, The Simpsons or Mr. Show. Yes, there are MORE Simpsons quotes, but there are far more Simpsons episodes. I don't think there's a day that passes I don't quote something for Mr. Show … relevant or not.

Terra da lou, terra da lou…

It is important to note, however, that a Hot Brown IS a sandwich, and not an apocryphal sex act. Thought you'd get us with that one, didn't you, Kentucky?

Why some of its best friends are women!

As long as you could get the pages apart, you could convince yourself it was rain.

Yeah, Woods Porn is actually a pretty benign rite of passage. It makes me a little sad that generations from here on are so unlikely to have their sexual awakenings via such relatively gentle means.

Way back in the 90s, Nicholas Negroponte called it (or something pretty similar anyway) "The Daily Me."

It sounds like American slang made up by a non-American. Like if I was to write a British character who cobbed his junkey down to the 'errinouse for some nippers and clags.

Me, I'm sick of the Swiss.

I came across the words "Octoroon" and "Quadroon" relatively early in life, and I was pissed to learn they were racist insults because I thought that they sounded like awesome, whimsical words in line with the Wizard of Oz books I was reading at the time.

So, a few hundred of us, then?

"My cousin's girlfriend is making 77 galleons a MINUTE on her scrying pool! A few days ago she bought a new Nimbus 8000X on her earnings!"

"Contains no actual rap"

Ah. Happens to all of us.

Right, I should clarify. I mean the idea, not just the specific title. Tony Stark gets inverted and avoids being turned back, gives in to his megalomaniacal impulses, sells people Extremis, and kicks the shit out of Daredevil. After reading the new Iron Man title, seems like he's back to himself again. I get that…

Wouldn't you be?

So … did the Superior Iron Man idea just stop? I was following along, and read Secret Wars (as far as it exists thus far), and suddenly it seemed like Marvel just decided not to talk about it any more. Too bad - it was interesting.