Little Mermaid through Tarzan is the Golden Age? Huh. I'd've said Snow White through Sleeping Beauty.

Mine too, but possibly in different sense.

Alpha Gal? The new super-heroine with an animal-rights agenda? I picture her in a t-shirt and fatigue jacket, but I'll bet Jim Lee insists on body armor and a high collar.

As far as dating the infiltration of ninjas into comics goes (as well as the "white ninja" business), we can take it back to 1973-74 pretty easily. In The Shadow #4, Denny O'Neil proposes that our hero had trained with a ninja master. And I think (although I'd be hard-pressed to prove this) that O'Neil had already…

Of course John Noble could play a Star Wars villain. He's a brilliant freaking actor, and could play almost anything. Maybe not, say, Superboy or a baby — but maybe he could. I'd let him try.

With Ultimate Nick Fury, Marvel has actually managed to do it in continuity. And it was such a genius move that they've followed it up with Ultimate Spider-Man. So, yeah, we're still doing that, and probably will be for a long time to come. Hope you enjoy it.

On #1, I assume that Wonder Woman's costume was made a touch more modest for the international readership — an almost knee-length skirt, Wonder Girl top. But you know what? I kind of like it.

I've been married 17+ years to a woman I love madly. After all this time, we do still, sometimes, make each other sandwiches. And, despite some tough stretches, I happily recommend marriage to friends, people contemplating a wedding, or strangers on the subway. But always with a lot of qualifiers, on the order of…

I agree, with one caveat: Batman may be more relatable if you're a churning mass of unresolved emotional issues, just barely held together by an overactive superego. Which does seem to explain his vast popularity with the target audience ....

Yeah, that was a stupid plan, and they're getting what they deserve in retaliation. But the fact is that the ATF could do a much better job if its hands weren't tied by a bad law that serves nobody but criminals.

This is why state and municipal laws can't make a dent in the problem. Any effective gun laws need to be made at the federal level. This is a problem, since it means crafting laws that help dense urban areas without significantly harming hunters and sport shooters in the countryside.

Batman. Also, Galactus v. Batman? Same result.

"Horrible," eh? As opposed to all the great late 90s movies about virtual reality starring Corbin Bernsen and Billy Campbell.

I'm very short, for a guy, at 5"2". My wife is about 5'8". It has never been particularly odd for us, although every once in a while I stand on the stairs to kiss her, just to see how the other half lives. (The last woman I dated before marriage was 5'10" — eight very solid inches, to stick with your cheesy double…

Fine. What other tired classroom favorites can be sexed up as CW-grade teen thrillers? How about Ebenezer Scrooge: Zombie Slayer? Huck and Jim, Vampire Detectives? Edith Wharton's House of Myth? The Ghostly Gatsby? I don't care, until they get to Middlemarch — then we'll have words.

Anybody else love that moment in Kevin Smith's Green Arrow run when Batman has just saved Ollie's butt, they're in the Batplane, and Ollie starts reminiscing about the good old days "when Speedy and I had the Arrow-car, the Arrow-cave and the Arrow-plane," or words to that effect? Then Batman turns around in the…

Because the Brits are goofy about their gardening?

Maybe the dolphin is their pet. This, by itself, would be a huge leap — do any animals actually have pet? But it might step the conversation back a little from the hint that they have taken it in as one of their own.

Just so we know: are you trolling or misinformed?

Didn't see most of these, which proves your point. But I did see John Carter (big Burroughs fan, me), and agree completely. It was a big, goofy ERB-athon, with great effects and ... well, that's what it had. A movie like that can't possibly be for all tastes; its as old-fashioned and unsophisticated as the Flash…