Arthur Darvill's not playing Booster Gold. Rip Hunter, Time Master is a character who's been lurking around DC comics since the '60s. All Rip and Booster have in common is time-travel, and Booster only did that once before 52, when they basically turned him into Rip. (Making Boster Gold protector of the time stream…

Were great. Every animated movie since Flashpoint has been dire. (Haven't seen Gods & Monsters, though. That one might be good, what with Bruce Timm coming back.)

Joel has said he's not revealing the movies until the episodes drop. Is that what the kids say? Drop? Or is it drip? Tumble, maybe? No, that doesn't sound right…

Some writer earned a nice fat bonus for that.

I'm sorry, we don't think you're right for the job. But thank you for your interest in the Phoenix tourism board. The plants go nuts firing pollen into the air is very evocative but not quite the slogan we're looking for.

That's very reasonable. Something like that would go for at least $15 here in New York, and with a less charming name, like "world's worst boilermaker." I don't think I could resist the clever concept and low price, especially after a few of my typical beers. (I was going to say "real beers," but I've never actually…

That's very reasonable. Something like that would go for at least $15 here in New York, and with a less adorable name, like "world's worst boilermaker." I don't think I could resist the combination of clever concept and cheap price, especially after a few real beers. That's the sort of thing I'd order if I was on…

And is presumably sold at a price higher than the entire bottle of Old Smuggler. A clever barman can make a fortune exploiting hipsters.

Also, he's wider than he is tall, and he's at least six feet tall. That's vital to the character. There should probably be something about pouches in the blurb, too.

Actually, DC did precisely that with The Phantom Stranger in 1987. Of course, that's a much lower profile character, and pretty much defined entirely by his mysteriousness.

I seem to recall DC doing something like that for the Phantom Stranger. Three different possible origins, pick the one you like best.

I agree. There's a decent movie or two hiding in there.

It depends on the origin story in question. Assuming this version of Aquaman has always been King of Atlantis (and not the orphan-who-discovers-his-birthright version), the origin would be "Prince grows up, becomes king." Not much story to tell.

Okay, that makes sense. It's been a long time since I read Preacher. Still, it seems weird that a kid from Texas would embrace Arseface and not change it to Assface. And everything else in Preacher is perfectly logical…

It's bugged me for a while, but I never really looked into it so maybe there's an explanation, but did no one ever mention to Garth Ennis that Americans don't say arse? Why is he not Assface?

It's indisputable that Superman is a power fantasy, but I disagree that it's necessarily adolescent. Grown adults often struggle with feeling powerless against a plethora of adversity, and fiction like Superman can be quite therapeutic. I think it's worth noting that in the early days Superman primarily fought crooked…

The most meaningless sentence possible is Not for nothing but it is what it is.

It's not just Philly, but limited to the Atlantic NY-NJ-PA region, I believe. (And probably Connecticut. I don't have any first-hand evidence, but if Long Island does it, CT would too.) My downstate NY family says it, my NJ in-laws say it, my friend's family from Philly say it, but I refuse because it's stupid.

Later, after the explosive decompresssion, no one will blame Batman for letting Superman's unconscious body drift off into space.

Batman: "Cross my heart, hope to die, eat a horse manure pie."