I dunno, Trudeau senior would readily have an ethical debate on the steps of Parliament, but JT? I don’t see it.

No, this was the greatest evil Superman story of all time (even if it gets drawn out by the end):

So the newest replay of one of the oldest science fiction stories, Frankenstein. And likely it will also be misinterpreted as “Man shouldn’t play God” when the real message should be, “If you bring new life into this world, it’s your responsibility to nurture it.”

It’s like someone spilled coffee all over an Alex Ross painting!

All the best in your future endeavours, Charlie Jane! You and Annalee built my favourite place on the internet, a place I was happy to visit everyday. A site full of the kind of genre fans who, while keeping a toe in their nostalgic love for the history of science fiction, fantasy, and comics, were also open and ready…

What shocks me most is the lack of Ron Perlman...

They often did. There were internal divisions within both the Crusaders and the Muslims that created a few (brief) interfaith alliances, or at least common - cause support. E.g., Saladin exploited the presence of the Crusaders to conquer Aleppo from its Muslim rulers and add it to his own holdings. Raymond III (the…

It was probably assigned reading in junior high schools before it was in military academies, but the reasons are primarily marketing. See my earlier comment here.

“Young adult” is an audience defined for marketing purposes. In the early 80s when Ender’s Game came out, YA was predominantly “social problem” novels like The Outsiders and Judy Blume’s books, because a big chunk of the YA market came from education-related sales (assigned class readings and such). There really…

The famous cover of Captain America #1 (Cap punching Hitler) hit newsstands nine months before Pearl Harbor, when the United States was still neutral and there was still a non-trivial level of tolerance or support of the Third Reich among the American population.

I think that’s his point. Shanghai Noon is still better than half this list.

I know it’s the kind of thing I would have totally dived into and obsessed over if I’d been 5-10 years younger and had more free time when I discovered them, but I still appreciate Claudio Sanchez’ massive level of artistic commitment to his mythology. And the music’s great too.

They’re quite good.

Did you ever notice the cleavage Sigourney Weaver displays in Galaxy Quest is never seen in her other films? There are ways around that, sweetie.

Please, give me nerd-Stallone:

On top of which one of the composers Kubrick replaced North with was György Ligeti’s—without getting permission from Ligeti (who, unlike Johann and Richard Strauss was still very much alive) first!

I feel TFA’s marketing wasn’t so much Abrams trademark “mystery-box”—it felt like Lucasfilm was putting out a lot of stuff that Abrams would have been reticent about if he’d been in control. I think the obfuscation, such as it was, came from two places:

You never noticed how an old-money WASP billionaire regularly works outside the law and beats up ethnic-minority gangsters and the mentally ill but never really confronts the broken systems that perpetuate those problems in the first place? And why would he? Wayne Industries profits regardless.

Feist: So much this. Even the last two books of the Serpentwar Saga were a bit too long.