If superhero comics were limited by the laws of physics — or any other natural science — they wouldn’t exist. Forget Superman and Franklin Richards; even Batman would have had his arms ripped out of their sockets by Detective #30.

While I applaud your screen name, I am appalled by your taste in movies.

“I’m doing this for the money. I don’t have to enjoy it, I just have to get through it.”

This is great news. But, really, it almost doesn’t matter as long until Marvel gets its hands on the rights again. At this point, I have no hope of anybody else doing justice to the FF.

And for those of us who still prefer our superbeing adventures on paper and with word balloons, the stakes are even higher. It seems…

As it happens, I told that same joke in a sermon a few months ago (from the clip, about gathering at the river). It went over well, but not 5,000 seat megachurch well.

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Yeah, the seeming passion for IPAs is weird, especially in such a crowded market. If half the microbreweries that produced them switched over to porters or stouts, I’ll bet they’d sell twice much.

That would be fine with me. And Quentin Taranatino.

Glad you liked it, find your thoughts interesting, and so forth. But you know what? There’s no point in anybody reviewing Jessica Jones, or in me reading any reviews, because I have known from the moment it was announced that I would watch it. Every minute of it.

I liked the Affleck Daredevil movie, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. I have been hooted down or dismissed out of hand more times than I can count for saying this, but there you go. (Also, screw the snobs, I liked The Phantom with Billy Zane, and even Alec Baldwin’s Shadow has grown on me).

So basically, what you’re saying is: Vulcans.

I don’t think either word is that much older than the other — at least in this sense.

I’m pretty impressed that they even approached a public intellectual of Coates’ stature to write comics. It’s sort of like getting Simone de Beauvoir (were she still alive) to write Ms Marvel, or Stanley McChrystal to work on Captain America.

The names aren’t always that serene, either: Man of Sorrows, St Agnes in Agony, stuff like that. How many churches are called “Calvary,” for pete’s sake — after the Hill of the Skull, where people were impaled and left to die.

I don’t take canon very seriously (at least in comics). But how is Earth 2 in its current incarnation not “canon” as DC defines it these days?

I was thinking about that. Sure, Wonder Woman is woefully retro, but then ... it’s old. And just changing the “-man” suffix to “-girl” in the Silver Age has stuck us with some lame heroine names.

As Kupperman points out, before Sir Thomas Ralegh (or Raleigh as it is often spelled) organized the Roanoke colonists, he sent two other missions to the New World.

Obviously. So obviously.

This is about as much fun as you can have reading a book.

This is a great idea, but can we improve the assonance factor? How about Emerald Attorney?