I always have to re-read The Authority by placing it in the context of the time period and how different it was for a superhero title then. People always took away from it the wrong things-the no good bastards heroes, taking the immense scale artwork of Hitch and evolving it into Bendis level decompression-but when it…

Gaiman sold the rights to the character to Marvel, yes.

I was always struck by how McFarlane respected Sim's creative rights-so far as I know, #10 has never been reprinted by Image-but yet screwed Gaiman over so relentlessly. It's funny in retrospect given how Sim basically blew up and is a nonentity now while Gaiman's so successful he's practically a brand.

Byrne played fair though, in that he was actually killed in a fight at the convention before Star Brand blew up Pittsburgh.

I read it, mostly picking up the book because they had gorgeous covers for the early 80s.

Anyone amused that the source of "grimdark" is the description of Warhammer 40,000?

I guess adding Red to the front of something is like adding "gate" to the end of a political scandal?

Man, the two Force Unleashed games got crawls, give it to Rogue One. It's a fucking Star Wars movie.

Doesn't work anymore. Everyone has memorized the Youtube link.

I saw it. I'd rather that remained unnoticed.

That glass survived something like four moves in the late 70s-early 1980s. I distinctly remember dropping it and breaking it around 1983.

The location for the Der Wienerschnitzel here in Virginia actually stopped being one over two decades ago, but the damn building remained until someone tore it down two years ago to put up another drive through place. In fact all that's ever been on that lot here is a drive through.

Christ these comments are nostalgia bombing me to death. I only knew of one Rax, outside of Charleston, West Virginia. I haven't been back there in ages, god only knows what's there now.

Holy fuck, I had the King Kong glasses too! NOSTALGIA BOMBED.

My memory of it was it was pretty much as good as McDonald's. It certainly was going to outlast that crazy Wendy's place with the square burgers, I used to think back then.

I had a Star Wars poster on my wall for years and I couldn't remember where it was from. It might have been from there.

Back in the 90s, when anime on VHS was becoming a thing, my local video store proudly displayed every volume of Legend of the Overfiend on the shelves with the other early anime on VHS. I constantly told the manager "look, this is flat out pornography", only to hear back "nah, it's a cartoon."

Looking for the funny.

I love Fail-safe but good gods it's a depressing movie. That you could get that movie AND Dr. Strangelove out of the same source material is something of a miracle.

No way, if I'm leaving a fall out shelter I'll be looking for the guy who punches people once and tells them they're already dead.