Banned from Delta? That's not a punishment — it's a prize.

I thought it was bad, so much so that I only watched two episodes of season one, mocking them ruthlessly. And now ... I'm an addict. Turn back, Dick Whittington!

Actually, somebody did test the inks. Around the same time the UofA did the C-14 dating, an outfit called the McCrone Research Institute determined that the ink was "added at about the same time". How they determined this, or what exactly it means, I have no idea.

Funny thing about that line is that it is absolutely un-sourceable. A guy tried a few years ago, and wrote a journal article about his failure to find any place where Luther actually says it.

@zoanon: No clue. Exploring the bold new world of child-rearing advice?

I like the way the crew members were supposed to have the names of famous explorers — Cook, Drake, Bougaineville. (There's an island named for that last guy, but I only know that because of Google). Would there have been an Eriksen or a Cortes in the second season?

@DaCrusher: "Corrective table etiquette!" Yeah, I'd say that delivers "more than the opposition" all right.

There's another factor — not as deep, but also a factor: those costumes.

@crosis101: Wait, I don't understand. That's a great scene — isn't it the kind anybody would WANT to write (and film), if only the chicken**** producers would let them?

Two things about the signet ring idea. First, "TW" doesn't really look like a bat. If Bruce's father had been Victor or Walter or something, then maybe.

@hwilam: If I remember right, the July 1039 issue has a nice little story by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

If I have learned nothing from the Flash, Green Arrow, Batman and Captain America, I have learned this:

@Gaucho85: Seriously. After watching him help wreck the former Batman franchise, and then keep the Saint from ever developing into a franchise ... well, Kilmer is on the "avoid at all costs"list.

Um, guys? Professor Erskine's super-soldier formula? And the vibranium shield?

@MinervaAlpaca: There, see? You said it so I don't have to.

Yeah, sure. But I'll take the Dick Sprang Batcave over all of it.

@FatherAnonymous: Crusher. I meant Crusher. Typo, not drunk, no matter what it seems like.

Two things in the letter, one silly, one ya-wish-he'd-remembered:

Great stuff, but it makes me worry about poor Jess. How much of this stuff — meaning the stuff best forgotten — has he actually had to read? One shudders at the thought.

I remember that arc, although not in much detail. And as I remember, it was exciting and creepy. Also noirish and, by the standards of comic books, credible.