We'll have to agree to disagree. For me, the difference between Ennis' run and just about everyone else's, is that when I laughed at Ennis-written issues, it's because he wanted me to laugh.

With most CD-Rs, it's not hard to tell if they've been written on.

I'll bet that McDonald's had its own security cameras. We just accept that public spaces (by which I mean any space you can just walk into generally hassle-free whether it's a government office, public library, fast-food restaurant or bank) are likely to have cameras in place for security reasons. So why shouldn't…

Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a fast-food restaurant in one of the most tourist-heavy places in France? When there are well over 1 billion cell phone cameras in the world? And if French law does support that expectation of privacy, how do they expect to enforce it?

I'm no expert on French law. But is it reasonable to expect that level of privacy in a busy public fast-food restaurant located in one of the most tourist-heavy places in the country? Two years ago the Economist reported there were 1 billion cell phone cameras in the world: http://www.economist.com/node/15865270 How…

Given that Gwen never speaks, moves or reacts from the moment Spider-man confronts Goblin at the bridge, I still maintain she was dead before Parker even got there, Osbourne taunts and Kakalios physics notwithstanding.

Wonder Woman is definitely A-list in terms of public recognition. Too bad she's so rarely written well at all.

I stand corrected. I was interpreting my response broadly with characters who didn't neatly fit into the male/female cisgendered dichotomy, but the original comment did say "trans-".

Really can't think of any decent trans heroes though I know there are a couple out there.

Are there any hypotheses on what evolutionary advantages, if any, proto-feathers provided to non-avian dinosaurs? Or were they simply not disadvantageous? Just curious.

Well, Toronto's FanExpo is getting up there too (I think 3rd largest in North American after SDCC and NYCC), and it's getting too big for comfort as well. And way too commercial. The video games take more and more floor space every year and half the content is retreads of things released at SDCC or E3, but without the…

Was it a plague in Day of the Triffids, or some kind of cosmic event/superweapon?

I remember Atwood relating a debate she had with Ursula K. Le Guin over the definition of "science fiction" and Atwood repeated what you wrote. Considering that most of Le Guin's books are not monsters and robots, she obviously disagreed with Atwood. And I could only think, you're a literary novelist who's written…

If that's true, I'll be there opening night. I'll see it twice if Cumberbatch keeps the outrageous accent.

"Nomad! You are imperfect! Carry out your primary function!"

Would most major world religions survive the discovery of extraterrestial life? Of course. Any organized faith that's been around for at least a few centuries has already had to deal with numerous challenges to its worldview and has found a way to accommodate itself. They'll do the same with alien life.

There's been theological discussion, at least:

A good illustration that no matter how much we close up the gaps, they'll always be big enough for someone to shove their god into.

BEAR: Layer zero-adorable.

I don't think that's true of current-day blockbusters, though. There are a lot that start production well before the script is done, but get greenlit based on brand recognition or high concept alone.