You should be happy - TrekRider called y’all masters.

I just put them in quotes to indicate a conversation, I’m not actually quoting a source.

I still haven’t read those McGregor stories, but Sean Howe’s book on Marvel made me very curious, and your comment has reminded me of and reinforced that, thanks! I should get on that.

They didn’t want to make the tree ten feet tall with a whole lot of blank trunk.

In Marvel it became okay right here:

For the record, Hunter is not the illegitimate child of any Wakandan, his parents died in a plane crash and he was adopted by T’Chaka. He’s basically Iron Fist, except he didn’t grow up to be better than Wakandans or superspecial or to feel any particular need to leave.

“We need a head of counterintelligence, someone ruthless, who will do whatever it takes, even murder, to preserve the status quo”

At this point, we need to change the saying to something more like “Where there’s hot bright orange-yellow energy burning the matter from which they emanate, there’s fire.”

Maybe it’s like illuminated manuscripts. That would be nice.

Oh, I meant at The Root.

You’re right that it’s not a small job, and it’s a huge promotion from where she was when she was hired (a pattern in this administration, which makes sense if they want everyone around them to be awed and grateful). Building up the Rolodex makes sense, but I’m not aware that she’s done anything in this job so far…

I don’t think that’s irrelevant, but I also don’t believe in coincidences. There’s a very real chance that she was about to be promoted, and put into an incredibly powerful and high profile position. If she didn’t care at all about anything but salary, she never would have taken a (normally obscure) public sector job…

(minor clarification since there’s already a Rachel in this story - pronunciation guide Rachel would be Maddow, not Brand)

I can’t deny that Queen Divine Justice technically fits the description of “sarcastic teenage sidekick” - if she didn’t, I wouldn’t have assumed you meant her. However, dismissing her character by saying Hudlin’s Shuri was “no longer...relegated to... sarcastic teenage sidekicks” is throwing serious unwarranted shade…

There’s no way it can be good. If she’s leaving because she has an ounce of integrity, there’s one less ounce in the Justice Department. If she’s leaving for any other reason, it still destabilizes the Justice Department and makes it even more vulnerable to despotic takeover.

It’s called a non-disclosure agreement. I’m sure Willoughby talked to her lawyer and her accountant before the interview, and she doesn’t owe anyone any more than calling him “deeply troubled and angry and violent”. Not a lot of ambiguity there. 

Counterpoint: It was funny.

Yeah, Odin was supposed to be yet another phoned in nothing in a career that has been full of them (my guess: he likes money), and yet his whole performance in this was golden (especially as Loki).

True enough, but Jackson is in Rose Park, the least white neighborhood of this very white city.

It’s worth looking at those links and noting that this change got started because Kiana Phillips, a sixth grader, noticed and took it personally and spoke up and was heard.