Especially when EU minutia is no longer canonical! What, do you think I wasted my life all these years only to actually have wasted my life all these years?

So does this mean the Count can finally display celebratory control over the elements again, or what?

I buy that.

Aren't they both naked…?

I am inordinately excited for what I hope will be "Marvel Comics Presents Jack Kirby's Clifford the Big Red Dog."

Aw, really? I thought Furball was just a codename, assumed so no one would recognize Robbie Baldwin's cat Niels as one of the Pet Avengers—like how Ace the Bat-Hound used to wear a mask so no one would recognize Bruce Wayne's dog.

Well, gundarks displayed limited use of primitive tools, but weren't generally considered sentient beings. Whereas nerf herders—i.e., people who herd nerfs—were clearly sentient, albeit scruffy-looking (at least insofar as the distinct Alderaanian subculture with which I'm familiar goes).

Did you mean "[Jaxxon]" …?

Bite your tongue.

I felt bad for his children.

Whatever you say, Jean-Luc.

Well… taller, anyway.

Hey, to each one's own! A graphic novel adaptation would rock, since I think art would go a long way to condensing things in a good way.

That's exceptionally kind of you to say, though I fear you're giving me too much credit and Tolkien too little. In The Silmarillion, here's how Huan's death is described: "Huan in that hour slew Carcharoth; but there in the woven woods of
Doriath his own doom long spoken was fulfilled, and he was wounded
mortally, and…

I'm slightly disappointed that the A.V. Club did not display more rigorous pop cultural scholarship in this Q&A and its comments by distinguishing between sentient (Charlotte, Bambi's Mom) and non-sentient (Artax, Ol' Yeller) animals.

The rest… is silence.

Just because he was different…

What do they think this is, a DC property?

It's Aquaman, right?

If at fourth you don't succeed…