There was actually something a little poignant and sad there. I thought it meant that he couldn't have children of his body, i.e. his "own" children. (He looked a little sad at that moment).

For the record I love this stuff. Your reviews are good and kicking the idea you have in there around is well worth it. So see what y'all can do to convince the higher-ups the readership is there.

APropos of @douayrheimschalloner:disqus observations, here's another that I actually really liked here: Hubero.

Like your observations and agreed that Naj Gil is actually a really
interesting (if one off) character. And totally with you on Crais'
growth. I really liked watching that, and I liked that Crais has grown
into so much more than the cartoon villain that to be honest, was his
start.

Well, true enough. Though it turns out if you zoom around a black hole fast enough it's possible to do a loop around a black hole and in some solutions you can go back in time. I don't remember the details, there's an old problem with an infinite rotating cylinder where you can make what are called closed timelike…

Yeah, and the thing that I wish more sci-fi movie writers would do is take advantage of the fact that near a black hole you have a FREAKING TIME MACHINE. Christ. there's a ton of cool plotlines right there!

I'd put it in the "as bad" category, though you should read Phil Plait's take on the Core, which is pretty funny. But yeah, I was slapping my head thinking "this is simply stupid."

You want weird? I'll give you weird!

OK, the physics guy here.

I think the problem is that you don't quite understand what science tells you and what it doesn't — and what the Copernican principle is really about in a modern context. I am not trying to be condescending here, but speaking as a physics major the existence of Kepler 10c just says, "Hey, planets could form in a…

Oh, this:

Agh. Ditko. I remember his 80s stuff, seeing the work he did earlier, and thinking, "this can't be the same guy."

Yeah, eventually I think they moved Buscema off the book. I seem to remember Al Milgrom doing it or a bit but I could be quite wrong. Golden did some fantastic covers and his work on Micronauts, along with his stylistic counterpart Pat Broderick, was really good.

Yes, the Micronauts was a good run for Mantlo, who is NOT a subtle guy when it came to writing. The Micronauts fit that well.

If you're referring to the story I referenced I do not think the artist was Kane (whose stuff I generally dug). Trying to remember who was on that one, but I'd have to riffle through 1980-era comics I guess.

I'd have to look at them again. I was reading it ca. 1981-1985, so I probably hit it just as it was getting into porn territory.

The pre-Starlin stuff is nice but I didn't find it necessary to follow Starlin's work or even that relevant, honestly. It's fun to read tho. The Jesus Christ allegories are just nuts.

That was part of the Warlock arc too — the clowns were in Warlock's head.

Well, I'd differ with you a bit — I was reading it ca. 1981 and even by then, we had RanXerox and Den, which was basically wank material. Texarcana I remmeber as being pretty good. But Every Cover has a woman with giganto-boobs on it. Every. Single. One. I was a horny 12-year-old too then, but even I got to saying…

OK, and I am going to throw out some serious nostalgia/ nerd cred here. The image at the top of the article is, if I read it right, from Warlock #15, the last issue. The guy on the right is the Yoda-analogue.