Apples and oranges. The tears usually have to do with the margin of the final score. A whole lot of 12 year olds will cry when they lose a close game, not so much when they're way behind at the end. And they're kids, who cares if they cry when they lose? Get some pizza in 'em (or kimchee) and they'll be fine.

Va. Code 18.2-67.4, sexual battery is the charge that's made when prison guards have sex with (adult) prisoners, or a parole officer has sex with (adult) parolees. What you are thinking of is aggravated sexual battery in the felony part of the code — if the lawmen accused of sexual battery use force, it's also…

Great essay man!

What, you mean names like McVeigh, Fortier, Nichols and Rudolph?

And I would almost for sure get to see Elizabeth Manley on TV. Which (though I'm sure she's aged, as have I) would be a very good thing.

True dat — the levels didn't stick in my head because they're kind of lame. He ages slow, is what I'm saying, in comics and movies.

The junkie subplot was good but it was silly that walking was a side-effect of the "shutting off the voices in my head" drug. We could understand why X would want to do that. I agree, they should have just kept him in the chair but he could not have decked Eric in the Pentagon basement that way.

Eric's age is stuck because of the Holocaust origin. The youngest he could possibly be is 36 - if he was 6 in the scenes with Shaw in DOFP and it was 1944. But really? He was 12-14 in those scenes and it was 1941 or 1942. Making Eric in '73 a pretty well preserved 43 or so. Omega level mutants age slow.

In the 70's Nixon declared a War on Legs. All bad legs went to prison.

Don't overthink it hub. He just happened to land in his 73 body when 73 Wolvie had hooked up.

I liked it a lot — fun, well-crafted and with some depth. But do y'all think maybe they left a good movie out? In the time between XFC and the 70's portion of DOFP the following occurred as far as I can tell:

Indeed. Kitty was the agent of time travel because (1) Ellen Page is cool (2) Ellen Page is good at acting (3) Kitty was important in the original DOFP so why not make her important here (4) she could be the traveler herself as she wasn't born in '73 (5) she couldn't be the traveler because it had to be Wolverine…

The military is full of people who look like teenagers. Because they are teenagers.

I thought Google's April Fool Joke was colluding with Apple, Intuit and other tech companies to illegally depress salaries for engineers. Oh wait, that's every day!