Somehow they made it work that Wendy and Lacey came off as the same age, Middleman and Wendy clearly had a father-daughter relationship going, and yet Middleman and Lacey's romance didn't come off as creepy at all.

Somehow they made it work that Wendy and Lacey came off as the same age, Middleman and Wendy clearly had a father-daughter relationship going, and yet Middleman and Lacey's romance didn't come off as creepy at all.

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Irish Traveler, not Gypsy. He was only "gypsy" if you use that word as a descriptive term for all ethnic minority groups known for a wandering lifestyle — he wasn't one of the people traditionally called by that term (technically the "Romany" in their own language).

Irish Traveler, not Gypsy. He was only "gypsy" if you use that word as a descriptive term for all ethnic minority groups known for a wandering lifestyle — he wasn't one of the people traditionally called by that term (technically the "Romany" in their own language).

Still bitter that we actually elected Arnold Schwarzenegger into high office and he wasn't able to punch the deficit into submission, huh?

Still bitter that we actually elected Arnold Schwarzenegger into high office and he wasn't able to punch the deficit into submission, huh?

Hawk and Dove is much less of a retcon, though, because it really was always the case that the Hall brothers were empowered by some "mysterious voice" that was explicitly granting them oddly specific supernatural powers in order to prove some kind of metaphysical point.

Hawk and Dove is much less of a retcon, though, because it really was always the case that the Hall brothers were empowered by some "mysterious voice" that was explicitly granting them oddly specific supernatural powers in order to prove some kind of metaphysical point.

Eek! the Cat/Terrible Thunderlizards, like Freakazoid, was one of those kids' cartoons that was way too adult and cynical and amoral in its tone and totally warped me as a kid for getting addicted to it.

Eek! the Cat/Terrible Thunderlizards, like Freakazoid, was one of those kids' cartoons that was way too adult and cynical and amoral in its tone and totally warped me as a kid for getting addicted to it.

What I always wanted to see was the Sunday comics page to do a crossover of Heathcliff and Cathy, where Cathy ends up adopting a cat to assuage her post-feminist single-30-something loneliness and Heathcliff terrorizes her.

What I always wanted to see was the Sunday comics page to do a crossover of Heathcliff and Cathy, where Cathy ends up adopting a cat to assuage her post-feminist single-30-something loneliness and Heathcliff terrorizes her.

Law vs. Chaos in D&D was almost entirely a ripoff from Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, as was the concept of the Paladin class.

Law vs. Chaos in D&D was almost entirely a ripoff from Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, as was the concept of the Paladin class.

Don't get me started on the depressing phenomenon of Christian authors writing non-Christians who are interesting, well rounded characters who make reasonable arguments for their positions and then you find out the authors always intended them to be snares laid down by the Devil. (This is a trend, I suppose, that goes…

Don't get me started on the depressing phenomenon of Christian authors writing non-Christians who are interesting, well rounded characters who make reasonable arguments for their positions and then you find out the authors always intended them to be snares laid down by the Devil. (This is a trend, I suppose, that goes…

Also, the idea that the world in general doesn't respect superheroes and comic books is also tremendously dumb. Did you miss the tremendous critical wankfest over Christopher Nolan's Batman movies? What is a more iconic superheroic superhero than freaking Batman?

Also, the idea that the world in general doesn't respect superheroes and comic books is also tremendously dumb. Did you miss the tremendous critical wankfest over Christopher Nolan's Batman movies? What is a more iconic superheroic superhero than freaking Batman?