ROM. Man, I bought that up when it first came out, being a science fiction kid it fit handily. Even the warmed -over Invasion of the Body Snatchers story was OK with me. I think I bought up the first 20 issues or so.

also @lostinube:disqus — I actually still have my original copy of Death of Captain Marvel, and while I think a lot of the art choices aren't all that good, the idea to me was in some ways pretty sound. (I should say that one of the issues brought up is that while they were able to make some headway the problem was…

I'll go with that. Mantlo wasn't the most subtle writer around, though I felt that his writing went better with Gene Colan's art than with Michael Golden, though I love both.

The trial sequence was gold, and even though it literalizes the issues of bad justice systems, it works well.

Apropos of @lostinube:disqus the Epic imprint was one way for Marvel to get into the then-new market for "adult" comics, and at the same time avoiding the problems Heavy Metal presented — I mean HM had great art but the stories, reading them now, are all adolescent power fantasy porn (real and figurative) and that…

YES! That's the one. I loved the art but the scripting was not what I hoped.

Yes that's very true. There was a Marvel adaptation of Elric, in their Epic line (the mag they put out to compete with Heavy Metal). I can't remember who the artist was, but it was, art-wise, pretty good. The story itself, not so much.

By the way I have to agree with Tim O'Neil that Gamora's origins are a little weird in a modern context — the fishnet body stocking was pretty porn-o-riffic from the get-go, and the "let's draw attention to the crotch" belt was even more so.

I read the original Warlock appearances in Strange Tales and his own series only a few years after they were originally published; I think I still have Warlock #1 where he's on Counter-Earth. Too bad I can hardly take it out of the bag, that newsprint is awfully fragile after 40+ years…

It's not that she takes things calmly — that's the point. She freaks when Jason goes away — to get his sister no less — and when she finds Jason banging Jessica her reaction isn't "Dude, that's not cool." or "Hey, something is obviously f-ed up in our relationship". She — quite stereotypically— sexes it up for Jason's…

Because violet falls into the whole "woman scorned" trope. That's why. As to Jason's dreams with Eric, that's a bit different, because we never see Jason get all jealous.

Some not so stray observations:

The problem with the list was that it wasn't about protecting Americans from enemies. It was about protecting people in power from Americans who might organize.

To add a bit of science of wormholes…

Well, sometimes there's stuff that isn't in your control, you know? I can protect a source but I can't help if that source gets a subpoena or just gets outed by someone else. I've revealed a source to an editor of course on occasion. (They have to know sometimes). But I have never deliberately screwed someone.…

Well, what I mean is that there's a fair amount of records that either aren't on-line (anything pre-1999 at the local level is harder to find) and then there's the matter of making sense of it. But I can tell you, I covered bankruptcy for a short time. Court records are online, but if you want to know certain things…

Yes, there's a lot of it on certain beats.

Well, it varies state to state. But generally the rules have tightened a lot in the wake of some high profile stalking cases. Also now DMVs are more cognizant of the problems -Massachusetts used to use your social as the license number because it was just convenient.

Yes it is.

No I haven't, though I know of Adelstein as he's one of the few reporters to work in Japan as a foreigner and break such great stories (he was the one who broke this story about a yakuza don going to the US for medical treatment).