Goodnight, Caped Crusader, and atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed thee to thy rest.

"Think of my children!"
"You don't have any children."
"… someday I might."

In caelum cerevisiae est nullum, Itaque hic bibemus illum.

Come to think of it, I didn't have my breath stolen by any goblins as a child…

I exaggerate for effect; she was a perfectly fine cat and we loved her a lot. But if there had been any kind of supernatural activity going on, I'm pretty sure her response would've been, "Is this monster made of tissue paper or colorful ribbons? No? Guess you're on your own, humans."

See, this is one of the many reasons my parents should've gotten a dog when I was a kid, but nooooo, my sisters wanted a cat, so instead of a devoted monster-detector we got a borderline sociopathic furball who intermittently stared at nothing and wouldn't have told us even if she was actually seeing spookums or…

… that might actually work.

Yeah, but who are they gonna cast as Abbott & Costello?

Agreed. The first thing that came to my mind was back half of Hugo, once Scorsese finally got around to the Georges Melies' reveal—that stuff, with all the restaged productions and the story of what happened to so many of Melies' film prints, was way more interesting than the orphaned scamp's clockwork robot and their…

That's the Chicago way.

Ye soured the milk!

You remind me of a very young Scrappy-Doo.

A clown vill not bite me und throw me in ze basement.

Well, I think so, MLA, but I can't memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.

If you want to simultaneously disgrace three different countries you need to, as an American college student on holiday, stumble into an 800-year-old London pub on New Year's Eve, blearily order the first beer you recognize, a Corona, and then quietly accept a lemon wedge when the long-suffering bartender tells you…

This is almost certainly the opening salvo of some kind of invasion from the Mojoverse.

I went to a panel featuring Max Brooks soon after his Zombie Survival Guide & World War Z books came out (well before the Brad Pitt movie was announced), and he was great—really funny, with great stories about his dad, writing for SNL, and getting Alan Alda, Carl Reiner, and Mark Hamill to read for the WWZ audiobook.…

Like Erik I'm an old millennial, so I remember those dark times when Star Wars wasn't everywhere. But personally—and as others have said—I don't really remember a time before Star Wars was part of my life, nearing an obsession. I grew up with a sort of localized Star Wars omnipresence because my mom was a fan and had…

Rest easy, Jimmy Carter. History's found a new Greatest Monster.

Erased from canon after Disney bought Lucasfilm.