X-Men were always different because they taught you that it's ok to be freaky and different. I mean, whenever they become 'evil' they start wearing S&M bondage gear. Subtext becomes text!

I keep wondering if cyberpunk will become popular again now that it's actually becoming relevant.

Damn right. Dr. Strange.

Yeah! What ever happened to her? I mean, I'm sure it's a coincidence that I stopped reading X-Men books around the time she was introduced…

One of the reasons I like the Shocker so much is that he is usually depicted as a reasonable person who just wants to use his powers to make money. And one of the things I liked about Brian Michael Bendis' characterization of super-villains is their frustration that they have these remarkable abilities and yet…

Yeah, one of the things that makes Spidey so great is that he remains an unpopular put-upon egghead who rarely has anything go his way even after he gets his powers, which he then uses to anonymously help people rather than profit from them financially. He's the exemplar for a good person without much agency, in that…

Sorry the character isn't working for you. The show has always walked close to cartoonishness with its characters, and Varga might be a step too far. It's a delicate balancing act that they usually get right, and the show has generated enough good will with me that I'm willing to cut them some slack. But a…

Non-suicidal self-injury can create a state of disassociation that includes shallow breathing. Alternatively he might be a masochist and simply derives pleasure or relief from inflicting injury on himself. I'm tending towards the second one because he's attacking his teeth.

Usually it's a flaw, but now it's a feature. Varga's tactics are uniquely unsuited to dealing with Gloria. As soon as she speaks he recoils a little.

That was great!

I unabashedly love Sy. I am heterosexual but I would marry him in a heartbeat.

He might have survived if the glass hadn't been removed and an ambulance was called immediately.

…He swore allegiance to the Oak Ridge Boys?

We must not stoop to their level. That is secretly all they've ever wanted.

Isn't it great how Fox is imploding all of a sudden?

Yeah, but they're wrong. Fascism is an explicitly right-wing philosophy, but both Left and Right-wingers can be totalitarian if they espouse state control of every aspect of civil society. This would not be possible in the most Left-wing governmental system of all, Anarchism, but it is possible in Communism.

Um… yeah! Sorry I took a while to respond. I promise I wasn't ignoring you!

This hypothetical robot Trump actually sounds like an improvement.

I prefer wooden. Robotic people have dead eyes, and she's got a bright flame of anger burning merrily deep within her gaze.

Luckily when this robot malfunctions its personality flips to heroic and brave.