Yes, but who is going to play Etta Candy?

... some historians claiming he was born in the third century BCE and died as late as 380 BCE.

And yet you are not giving thanks? Seems like an obvious connection to me

I read somewhere it was Florida, a couple of decades earlier

Every once in a while, somebody (typically, some conservative commentator) points to those White House solar panels as a shorthand for Carter's supposed out-of-touch and underprepared style. They use his cardigans the same way. This always ticks me off.

Not planning on enough "Sharknado" sequels.

Filmore. That son of a bitch. Sorry — you were saying?

Seems like the obvious choice. "Yeah, I'm waging war on a legion of psychotic killers. WhAt kind of backup do I need? Hmm ... How about a series of ten year old boys?"

Err ... uh ... wait, I've got it. These are ALL out of continuity. Even the new ones.

Yeah, that's the guy. But unlike, say, the Flash or Green Lantern, he was never really a character with legs. He founded the JSA, then got kicked off in two issues to make room for Starman. All told, his Golden Age career lasted about three years, during which he never had his own title and rarely appeared on…

You're describing one very specific iteration of Hourman — the James Robinson one. It's my favorite too. But the Golden and Silver Age versions didn't have any addiction problems. They were just secpond-string JSA players, with a goofy power that could either help you out in a pinch or create a moment of suspense…

A couple of days ago, when we heard the the CW was planning to riff on the 40s pulp hero the Avenger, I proposed that moving down the scale, from big-name heroes to the smaller names, was a good strategy. If Smallville was good and Arrow is better, then Justice, Inc. (or whatever they call it) should be superb.

The dismal pseudoscience?

A somebody who spends much of his workweek around stained glass, I get pretty excited when I see something new in the medium. While I might (okay, would) have a hard time selling my lay leaders on it, I would like to see these installed in some side-chapel somewhere.

Man, I loved the Avenger in the days of the paperback reprints (and the continuation by Ron Goulart, and the short DC comics series). Although I was only a kid, I realized that it was derivative even by the standards of the pulps — a smidge of Doc Savage here, a sprinkle of the Shadow there — and that the stories…

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that photo at the top of the article is not Zeus, but the very-not-Greek prophet Moses.

Second that on Cyborg. But then, I was never a New Teen Titans fan, but I guess there were million of them back in the day. So maybe his presence adds something for those readers.

Let's be clear: it's not just a trope in fiction. Cats are, objectively, evil.

And yes, I'm a cat lover.

Yeah, okay, but ... it was a show about rocket ships, teleportation, and robots. Oh, and a galaxy full of basically humanoid races. I think getting Mark Twain's biographical details screwy is the smallest departure from reality in any episode of any Star Trek series ever.

I'm with you. "Time's Arrow" was fun. My favorite part is probably the image of Data's head, lying buried in San Francisco for 600 years ... even now.