The prequel comic tie-ins establish that Khan DID look like Ricardo Montalban, but had his appearance altered by Admiral RoboCop in an attempt to brainwash him and control him under the "John Morrison" identity.

No Future, no thanks.

I have a feeling that this is going to be a very unpopular post!

Yeah, but they don't fuck on SURVIVOR.

I'd agree to be on THE BACHELOR, but I'd demand a four bracket setup with four white girls, four Latina girls, four Asian girls, and four black girls. A woman from every bracket is eliminated each week for the first three weeks and then the final four compete against each other.

#blacklivesmatter, facts don't.

The AV Club making sure to reference their governments is very very #PEAK, as is their failure to recognize the podcast up to this point.

You must be thinking of Champion. We're talking Starter over here.

No SPIRAL ZONE, no sale.

The best Star Wars book is Matthew Stover’s Traitor, from the New Jedi Order series. It’s got a trickster Jedi psychopomp. it’s got the best death scene in all of Star Wars, and it’s got Jacen Solo as a sympathetic character for what might be the last time before he was ruined.

Salute to him for shooting his shot with Pamela Segall Adlon. If you're gonna get curved, get curved by the best. No shame in taking a L like that.

I'll agree that when Brubaker had the X-Men in space, the book was fun and exciting. But we'll have to agree to disagree when it comes to stuff like Utopia (great concept, thoroughly mediocre execution), Nation X (I honestly don't remember what this was about), Second Coming (editorial fiat), and that terrible Fear…

He hasn't to my recollection, but he talks about various fragments and scraps of stories he wants to do frequently.

I would be predisposed to your argument that the problems stem from a run of writers who bit off more than they can chew if the proclivities and idiosyncrasies of X-Men editorial weren't well-documented and widely acknowledged. From my perspective and given what we know about the history of that office, the…

I think you misunderstood the nature of my comment. I was talking about why getting a "not-shit" writer on the X-books isn't as easy as offering the assignment, not why the books themselves seems to be stuck in a decade-long creative morass.

It's not quite that easy.

Yeah, if you follow him on Twitter, he makes it pretty clear that he's not particularly interested in doing anything except his creator-owned stuff right now. He's left the door open to do more Big Two work in the future, but if I had to make a guess, I'd say that's not going to change until 1) his health reliably…

Call center flashback thread.

I feel like the zeitgeist is right for a vaguely embarrassing relic of our youth that is hopelessly stuck in its time to resurface and discover a new wellspring of popularity.

Everyone should date a stripper before they turn 24. That, working at a check-cashing joint, and telemarketing will inure one's soul to any and all types of fuck shit one might encounter in a lifetime. As a bonus, you'll be able to start stories with high-concept phrases such as "Back when I was dating that Peruvian…