I'm figuring Chief Moe is working for Varga in some way or another, whether he knows it or not.

… not sure Grant Morrison is the way you want to go if you're trying to get AWAY from grimdark…

You know, sometimes the image in your mind from a headline is better than the story. I'd rather hoped that "fighting with Dippin' Dots" meant that he threw Dippin' Dots at people whenever he was competing in an MMA ring. But, no.

That makes sense.

You know that said chef was Henson himself, yes?

…. it's always been aimed at preschoolers. It's just that it seemed a lot more clever and sophisticated back when we were in preschool.

They don't have to do as MUCH, because they have forty-five years of shorts to draw upon. Many of them have gone out of circulation, as we've learned more about early childhood education and replaced less-effective ones with better ones, or swapped out ones that were boring, or whatever — but many of the classics are…

And, at minute eleven, you proposed, right?

I'm not saying that I COULDN'T count to twelve without singing this song. I'm just saying that I CAN'T count to twelve without singing this song.

They did play fair with the fakeout opening, though. There was a half-second glimpse of a bonsai plant doing a baby Groot dance on a desk, which told you that, in the real world, there were twisty root-vines doing something twisty and root-viney. So I was completely, totally, seventy, no, sixty, maybe sixty-five…

I care. The thing is that Anthony's work was deeply important to many of us when we were kids. It meant, and continues to mean, a whole lot to us.

Piers Anthony is a truly fine human being. And a truly wretched writer.