Remarkably good, and — deep sigh — yes, likely to be better than anything that the ever gets put on TV or a movie screen.

Well, except LBJ. And Lincoln. And Columbia professor Joel Spingarn, who helped create the NAACP. And newspaper editor Ralph McGill, called "enemy number one" by the KKK. And the Freedom Riders, including the ones who got shot for it.

You've sold me on Daredevil. That could be a great show, just as described. Ditto Heroes for Hire.

Yup. I agree completely. I'm just a little jaded about the whole thing.

Yep. I remember when we used to say that "Nobody stays dead except Bucky Barnes."

That's so cute, the part about "whether DC does so is anyone's guess." Actually, I think anyone CAN guess. They may not do it in a month, or even a year. Hell, they may test our nerves and keep him dead for a Barry-Allen-syle decade or more. But he'll be back, because sooner or later somebody will be scrounging…

I was just re-reading the Daredevil origin story. He put his costume together from what must have been old pyjamas (or a yellow union suit). Things were so much easier in the good old days ....

Wow. Shocker. This Changes Everything.

I want to know why New Jersey was one of the hold-outs. Most people would have called that a Union state (although I personally believe that the Mason-Dixon line runs through Staten Island).

Wow. It's one thing to say, "Let's hire some comics hack to dummy up a few pieces of art for our fake movie"; it's another thing altogether to say "Let's hire the single most visionary visual artist in the medium to show off his Fourth-World era chops." I'm impressed by the level of completely unnecessary…

These guys were late to the game. Bernard Shaw was wearing his "healthy" Jaeger suits in the 1890s; Oscar Wilde toured America wearing silk knickers around the same time. The Arts and Crafts guys were also into "dress reform" for both sexes; there was something called a "Healthy & Artistic Dress Union." Buncha damn…

Parenthetically, don't knock those old pencil sharpeners. There were a lot of substandard knockoffs, but the best of them did a fine, fast job, lasted forever, and (obviously) required no electricity at all. Great piece of design.

I give Stan big points for the "Captain Blood" reference. Love me my Rafael Sabatini.

Meh. As far as I'm concerned, Mark Hamill's "iconic role" is Voice of the Joker, and he can play it any time he likes. #neverreallydugstarwars

They barely existed, and the ones that did were the size of a shoebox. I lived in New York, and I don't remember ever seeing anybody speak on a cell phone until well after Die Hard, except in movies.

Not so fast. What's missing here is the impact on a workaholic's family life. Yes, throwing yourself into work, body and soul, 24/7 is indeed a route to success and, if you enjoy your work, to a great deal of personal fulfillment. But, although the spouse and kids may be well provided for financially (assuming…

So, wait, let me get this ... the illegitimate son not only looks like his father's alternate-reality doppelganger, but also happens to be missing an eye? Ah, hell, I guess it's no less credible than that thing with the radioactive spider-bite.

"Superman and the Mole Men." Er, "Mole Molecules."

Me too. I never check the box for, say, presidential campaigns, because however much I support public funding of elections in theory, I'm never happy with the idiots who run. NASA, on the other hand, has consistently inspired and thrilled me since childhood, and it would be my pleasure to toss a little extra into…

I love this dragon, for reasons that have nothing to do with believing it was really anything alive. I just think it's cool that some guy loved dragons enough to make one up from spare parts and then write a book about it. It's the late-Renaissance version of what we would call outsider art.