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My brother told me about this time on his motorbike when he got hit in the throat by a bee. He's just cruising along at fifty or so and BAM! this random apiform hits him in the larynx. Damn near wiped him out.
If this can happen to a guy on a motorbike at a relatively sedate pace, what is going to prove dangerous to a

I'm not sure. I think he's originated his own theory (well, hypothesis, really) about the Earth expanding, kind of like an inflating balloon. Which is why the land masses are now further apart, obviously.
Unless he's managed to conflate the two ideas into a single, batshit theory that totally makes sense when he's on

I don't think the Green Lantern Debacle can be blamed on Reynolds.His cocky, asshole-ish Hal Jordan gradually learning Great Responsibilty worked fine and the cocky, asshole-ish part will work for Deadpool; a one-note character if there ever was one. I just think that the screenwriter(s) and the director on G.L.

Yes, he has a…let's say unique approach to writing.
Have you ever seen the ad for his ( to date unpublished) project about two guys in a bar discussing the folly of plate tectonics and continental drift? He also takes issue with other generally accepted aspects of physics. It's really, really odd, and actually not as

I want to see a faithful remake of 77 Sunset Strip, with all of Cookies' beatspeak rendered unironically and everyone smoking like freaking chimneys.

"I will never get tired of Arrow throwing in references to
legendary DC Comics writers, and sending our heroes to the intersection
of Infantino and Adams is right up there"

I loved Boyle's docker outfit. He looked ready to ask Mr.Bumble for some more gruel.

Me, too. I had to go Google it.

I always thought Topher Grace would have made a better Peter Parker. Maguire has a rather weaselly quality I have never liked. Best of all would have been a first-season Friends Matthew Perry. He looks- or looked- exactly like Steve Ditko's drawings of Peter.
( I can't comment on Andrew Garfield; I fell asleep

I was interested to see that the narrative started where Jackson's film did; with Dale (and by implication, Erebor), the discovery of the Arkenstone and Smaug's attack.

Although, according to a buddy of mine with contacts Inside Marvel, Sony are now considering a joint venture with Marvel. They clearly have no clue what to do with Spidy, except make crappy movies that no one likes, so their thinking is that maybe Marvel will do better.

This whole, "clean and jerk" thing they bang on about sounds unnecessary. Clean and jerk is an olympic lift, with a lot of extra coordination and other bells and whistles you don't need in the scenario described here. A deadlift, on the other hand, is a power lift, which means basically that you bend down and

Of course.
Because who needs to move quickly or balance easily in a combat situation? It's clearly better to look like some adolescent's wank fantasy dominatrix than a professional fighter.

That's my point. Arrow, Iron Man, Captain America and The Avengers are make believe, too, but my disbelief remains willingly suspended when Widow and Canary do their ass kicking thing. Yet for some reason the fumbling, inept assassin lady on the fumbling, inept Gotham failed to convince.

Okay, but if we get to time travel, who is it we need to kill with the shovel?

Well, he was a terrific Comedian. Maybe he can bring some of that magic here, although it'll probably be closer to that godawful excrescence he was in with Uma "the hammerhead" Thurman.

That's perfectly normal.

"At least this time Iris is able to extract herself from danger (with an
assist from a wounded Eddie), which is incremental progress, I suppose."

It's the whole Borg thing from Star Trek; they went from Most Terrifying Adversary Ever to something the Voyager crew could basically get rid of with a can of Borg Repellant Spray.

So, another version of, "Don't fuck with Mother Nature, you presumptuous fools," just before the whole system goes sideways because of that very thing and they have to rely on a no-nonsense blue collar dude kicking ass, saving adorable moppets and making things right. Being that it's StarLord, he'll probably crack