I was gonna say, I think most of these were basically crank calls.

This is a bad take.

Counterpoint: barn swallows are awesome. Yeah, they poop everywhere, but they eat so many insects and they fly like fighter pilots wish they could.

It’s funny how writers forget the basics after they become too established. I’m always telling students in English 101, “No first person, no second person, don’t try to make a ‘hypothetical person’ (the “one” you talk about),” and here are a lot professionals making those same mistakes. A lot of writers would do well…

Honestly, what really disappointed me about Civil War II was how mundane the premise was. Another story about “fate vs free will?” That’s like sci-fi generic plot #33, right after “robot becomes sentient” and before “would you fuck a clone of yourself?”

And directed by Yuen Woo-Ping, which is everything I’ve wanted!

Somebody already said it, but G-Gundam. If you liked Gurren Lagann, you’ll like G-Gundam.

Also, coming off Gurren Lagann, G-Gundam is going to give less mood-whiplash. Going from the pure-machismo fighting of Gurren Lagann to war is hell drama of most Gundams would be too weird. Kinda why I still haven’t finished Cashern: Sins.

 The impetus for the creation of Mar-Vell was a lapsed copyright from Fawcett Comics over its own (completely unrelated) Captain Marvel—who has since been bought by DC Comics and renamed Shazam—and if you want to be cynical about it, you could argue that Marvel has insisted on keeping some version of Captain…

They also left out House of M, where Danvers was called Captain Marvel in an alternate universe and was an impetus for her to become Captain Marvel in the regular universe when everything went back to normal (at least, as normal as things get in the Marvel universe).

To be fair, American weightlifting is pathetic and only finally won a medal in 2016 after a 16 year drought. Since it was in the women event and American men haven’t won a medal since 1984, it’d be fair to say this isn’t about protecting a winning program, but about protecting the Olympic Committee’s image and it’s…

This kinda-but-not-really related, but they had a strongman competition at the Arnold Classic this past weekend and one of the events was the Wheel of Pain.

Thome also sometimes caused the guys hitting behind him to almost shit their pants. Exhibit A:

Since you seem bored with beer, you wanna hear my dissertation on how cider is re-emerging in America, but we don’t have the cider apples necessary to make a good, dry, full-bodied cider so we compensate by adding sugar to the [gets hit by a bus].

That makes two emails from the Cleveland-Canton area. Perhaps something is in the water...

Yeah, but ya didn’t see the lead up to the fight, now, didya?

That actually sounds like a good Bond movie. Should we get like a chain-script going? I’d say Bond’s ordered to do the assassination, but then has to save the target to find the deeper mystery.

Once they finally got around to Ben Reilly being Spider-Man, it was actually kinda fun, if brief. But everything leading up to Maxium Clonage just took forever. First Peter wants to just be Spider-Man and ignore his regular life(even though he’s clearly still visiting Aunt May). Then he wants to get his life back, but…