Alas that you consider such a youth squandered. When the EU was swept clean, the loss of the X-wing Series is what I regretted most.

Well, true. "Continuity chains your strongest writer to your weakest writer," as they say in comics, and that goes for stories and all the rest. But I'll take the bad to get the good, if the alternative is not having the good at all.

Han has so many versions of the same outfit that even Lando wears them.

C'mon… For every moment like that, we also got stuff like Tag & Bink and Skippy the Jedi Droid and Operation: Emperor's Hammer and everything involving Dinner Silly Wraith Squadron.

Shockball or GTFO.

… I just came here to make a "California Cheeseburger" reference, but everybody started talking about political platforms and '68 election might-have-beens and the dwindling efficacy of protest movements and a Sherman Alexie book-to-film.

I have only vague (though positive) recollections of seeing Willow, which makes it all the more odd that I read the sequel novelizations credited to "George Lucas and Chris Claremont" as a teenager.

I always felt like a bad fan for giving up on Runaways after BKV left… But now at least I know that I've been vindicated by both history and the AV Club.

Ach, das Currency Petition ist ein… Nuisance Petition!

Posted in expectation of resounding success:

Posted in expectation of inevitable failure:

C) Hel & Valhalla both exist in Marvel Comics, so Hela & Odin (and the Valkyrior) have some say about the afterlife of mortal souls.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is inferior to a magical flying hammer.

Unfortunately, when they tried to have him killed off by dinosaurs, they sent him to a crowd-pleasing Spielberg-affiliated summer blockbuster starring two other Marvel alumni rather than the Savage Land.

Huh. That makes sense.

Could very well be. I might be conflating two things vaguely remembered from the (*sigh*) "Legends" EU, where I think in the RotJ novelization Obi-wan mentions something about a lava pit when he comes clean to Luke about what really happened to his father—thus, Mustafar being part of his version of events. And in the…

Rex not being pro-Empire isn't that surprising, despite his having been with the 501st and working so closely with Anakin. Remember that the "general public" of the galaxy doesn't know Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader. Obi-wan's version of events is still the official story—somebody named Darth Vader led the assault on…

Of course they are. Nobody would make Grimlock available from go and then bother to provide other playable characters. Other playable characters are useful only as a means of obtaining Grimlock.

True evil would be having him packaged in pieces with individual members of a combiner set, so you'd need to buy all of them separately to complete him. Only it's not the Constructicons, but some bullshit team like the Protectobots or something.

Plus an answer to the burning question of Grimlock's feelings on smooching vs. sovereignty.