I get it, you’re on the staff and you’re making money from all the Elmo merchandising. Doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be on board.

I don’t remember ever seeing this one before... it’s amazing. Just oh so beautiful, true Henson brilliance.

There is a difference between technology realistic to the relatively near future of Earth and a galaxy-spanning mega-civilization that has had interstellar spaceflight for hundreds of thousands of years and is full of technology that might as well be magic.

Did you notice that these ships have some sort of bubble shield surrounding them? That probably serves as an aerodynamic fairing and only a small amount of air gets through it if any. That’s why things shaped like bricks fly without any signs of wind resistance.

Way, way sexier.

And the subsequent 22R was even better. Toyotas of that era were nigh-unkillable, aside from some body rust issues. They took over the world because they were much more reliable and better built and more smartly engineered than their American competitors, plain and simple.

A true goddess among women!

Depends on the droids I would imagine. We certainly see a lot of highly intelligent Droid characters with their own humanize personality but we can’t map droids directly onto lliving beings. For one thing, droids don’t feel fatigue and many have been shown to have at least some motivation for and satisfaction in…

And Droid labor skews things even further, as does technology that we simply don’t have such as the ability to reach and mine asteroids as easily we drive to the grocery store. The capabilities of the Empire are not able to be mapped to our economy.

Brian Daley’s Han Solo trilogy is King, sorry. Old school is the best school when it comes to Star Wars and it doesn’t get any more classic than Han Solo’s Revenge.

We are a representative democracy, look it up. We are also a nation of laws and not an anarchy. Like it or not, if the people or their representatives (we pass laws both ways here, look up popular referendum) pass a law you have to follow it or pay the consequences. You can call us “commies” or whatever you like but…

“Their family has also more or less adopted She-Hulk, She-Thing, Black Panther, and assorted others, over the years.”

Parking garages should be mandatory for anything over a certain number of spaces, screw all these huge sprawling flat expanses of nothing. It’s not like Wal Mart and such can’t afford it.

You might be interested to learn that we live in a thing called a democracy, where the people can ask their government to pass regulations to ensure and improve quality of life. Some of these regulations can apply to private property and businesses, even! Because, you know, they live in a nation that has laws they…

I think I want to find a copy of this and use the board as a map for a miniatures game, maybe a zombie scenario or something out of Vice City or maybe even blend those into some sort of cyberpunk thing. I think it would be cool.

Something fascinating to me that many might not know :

For what it’s worth, when Bendis wrote the comic it was a pretty fresh and deconstructing take on the superhero formula. Yeah it’s been done a lot since then, but this was one of the early ones.

No, the Punisher is the Cap of Vietnam mixed with Batman. Nuke is pure 80s, Reagan era black ops version of Cap who is basically a distillation of every character Ahnold and Stallone and a hundred wannabes to those action heroes played in that decade.

I can’t believe anyone thought of anything BUT Quatto after seeing that pic.

I know you were joking, but I would watch a show about a homicide detective who can see the Grim Reaper. Nobody else can, and you never get to know if the Reaper is actually real or is a delusion but he is always there at the crime scene when the detective shows up and often follows him around or appears to him at…