Yeah. Wally's character arc, both post-CoIE and in the DCAU, is that he starts out arrogant and thoughtless and even a little venal, and grows into a more heroic mold. Comics Wally wound up pursued by a jealous husband. DCAU Wally is a jerk to Superman and hawks Lightspeed Energy Bars. In both cases, he grows out…

Barry jumpstarted the entire Silver Age of comics, discovered Earth-2, was a charter member of the Justice League, was half of two of the iconic DC teamups of the 60s, had the Rogues Gallery, prefigured 80s darkness by losing Iris, and was the premier example of the Good Death for a superhero.

The ME3 default made some sense on the theory that no one needs callbacks to characters they never met. But it was hard luck on people who'd changed platforms. (And weren't on PC, where the fan-run masseffectsaves site meant that you could always find something approximating your world state.)

No finished mosaics here either. There's challenging and there's "why am I even bothering?"

My wife just finished killing all the dragons. I was suitably impressed.

Yeah. I love modern Bioware (with the usual caveats about endings, occasional dumb forced choices, etc.) And while I'm old, I missed its isometric era by being on an underpowered PowerMac during most of its heyday. (First real 3D game I played on a PC was Elder Scrolls: Oblivion in 2006.)

Morrigan's idea that preserving magical stuff (which have a tendency to be inimical to humans or at least hard to live alongside) isn't sinister mostly stems from the fact that she doesn't much like or care about humans. My human Warden had different priorities. (Wildlife reserves are one thing, trying to run…

For myself, my first reaction to the Dark Ritual was "Not just no, but Hell no." There's no way that bringing a god into the world at the behest of Morrigan (whose concern for other people is actively negative) sounded like a good idea. But I was impressed that the game exacts a serious price for saying no. If the…

Hey, Riordan is a hero! (It's not as if there was a plan B for fighting a giant flying lizard if you couldn't figure out how to ground it. Though somehow in Inquisition they'll always politely land and led you whale on them.)

Re that final fight:

I really was hoping to live to see Action and Detective #1000.

The last time that happened, DC was saved by a) hiring a bunch of really talented British writers and b) poaching a bunch of Marvel talent and rebooting. (Of course, all that took about twenty years from Marvel's period of unassailable cool in the 60s.)

And yet Disney, which owns Marvel, also puts out Gravity Falls. (Original characters, but absolutely told by a writer with both talent and a heart.) How about a Runaways series done half as well?

That's basically "iconic" in a nutshell: the characters don't change, the world does.

They're not really writing him as Wally. Wally is hugely defined by growing up in the superhero life. Sidekick->Titan->Legacy Hero->Leaguer: Wally basically doesn't have a life outside that. All his friends are either heroes or ex-villains, he's never held down a normal job, etc.

I'm pretty sure in the last episode or two it's been Oliver who's been nagging Laurel.

Bronze Age Superman was given citizenship in every country in the world at the UN (which could apparently do that on Earth-1).

If you went to the newsstand model (where unsold merchandise is returnable), then the financial risk of experimentation falls on the publishers and distributors instead. Under current market conditions, do those seem more likely to take a chance on an experimental property if they have to bear the entire cost?

No biologist can rule out the possibility that the odds are multiplied by a factor of a hundred. Even a thousand. Some say even more than that, with equal confidence.

I think this is like trying to revive newspapers by getting people out into the street hawking papers and shouting "Extra!" Yes, the medium was healthier when that was common, but that doesn't mean you can reverse the process. Those Archie comics are the last vestiges of an ecosystem that was hit by an asteroid…