Y'know what else is interesting about those characters, Wolverine/Deadpool/Gambit, and I'll throw in Cable too: none of them had a straightforward origin story. They were invented as a "look" and codename and maybe a set of powers, and only over years was an origin slowly fitted around them.
(Gambit might be an…

I am part of a certain strain of old-school comics fans. I don't get Deadpool. Have never gotten him.

It's going to be on a few more times this week:

I didn't know Bowie toured as Iggy Pop's keyboard player in 1977! Holy shit.

This is my very first exposure to any info about Bob Kane. Please forgive this small skepticism – I'm sure Kane was a complete asshole – but:

After everything that has come to light, why do we believe Bob Kane when it comes to anything Batman related?

Now they just gotta read Daredevil 158 again and you're gold!

From Tonight, I think I take "Loving the Alien". But I also really really enjoy the cover "I Keep Forgettin".

Ha. My bro-in-law called my attention to that one too, and I wound up adding it to my 4 "disc" Stones retrospective mix.
80 Licks.

"…and half the songs on Exile."

Love "Panic In Detroit" so much. Listen to it all the time.

Allmusic says it's very strong.
http://www.allmusic.com/art…

Here's a deep cut from the Stones, that you rarely hear but it's excellent: "Sittin' on a Fence". That song is awesome. Yet could not find a foothold in their vast output.

Dead Flowers is so excellent. Only on Sticky Fingers could that song be a deep cut. That album is preposterous.

"Without You" is ok. The so-called deep cut off of Let's Dance that I absolutely love, is "Criminal World". It's a cover of a song from another band (Metro) from 1977, so I guess it's not considered a true Bowie song. But holy shit the performance is magnificent. Stevie Ray Vaughn, either Tony Thompson or Omar…

This would be a lot of fun. I'd love to get a chance to talk on this site about how awesome the 1939 Four Feathers is.

It's a Christmas Eve tradition in our house.

Very, very good. But Alexander wept, not gasped.
:-)

We wrap presents in front of it every Christmas Eve.
Miracle on 34th Street early, Die Hard late.

Yes, but – he's hilarious in the terrible Costner Robin Hood.