Also, Lucrezia's 19th and 20th century reputation as a schemer and a poisoner is probably not all that true, either; she seems to have been more a pawn than a mover and shaker in her family. If you want a brilliant woman and political operator of the era, you need to look at Caterina Sforza. Still no incest,…

Yeah! Take that, Letterman!

Which is funny, because the point of the character int he novel was that he *was* bizarre and insane even compared to Bond's other adversaries. There's a whole bit where Bond thinks about how crazy No must be to have spent the money and time to build his undersea lair with its magnifying observation window.

Though the actual Borgias were, at least compared to season 1, a lot *crazier* than the show ever portrayed them as being:

And Planetary wouldn't really work as part of the main DCU. Really, it didn't even work as part of the rest of Wildstorm once stuff like "the Authority take over the world" became the plotline of the other WS books. It's hard to do "archaeology of all genre fiction" when the shared universe elements aren't buried in…

Chiyo seems to belong to the past and pulls everything around her back into the past. There's also no way the Lecters would still have their old estate in 2015, not after Soviet rule.

He's a modern european AKA socialist wandering a savage nation

Based on Season 2, this means that the devil's secret weakness is taser rounds. I guess Satan is lucky he tried tempting Jesus and not Zeus.

Wouldn't have worked anyway, because of all the…uh…Corbomite. Yes. That's it. Corbomite.

Man, the people who make The Simpsons really hate Harry Shearer right now.

Apparently gross ignorance is an STD.

Well, no, they're turning Peter Parker into that. Miles Morales is going to be the relatable Spider-Man now.

His codename isn't too hot either. Werewolf by night? As opposed to what? Werewolf by tea-time? Werewolf by midmorning?

The really weird part is, this exact idea with this exact title was tried before with Keith Giffen writing it and it failed horribly, partly because the artist was genuinely below the baseline for professional comics work, and partly because Giffen was deep into his "characters talk in impenetrable jargon" phase as a…

Italy's equivalent of the Supreme Court finally exonerated her a couple of months ago. She can't be retried, not even in Italy's do-over based court system.

You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like, Couslon. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow.

Also, I liked a lot of Secret Warriors under Hickman…but the whole "30 years of stories were lies and Jake Fury was alive and a good guy all along" ass-pull in the final couple of iussues felt a lot less like a plan and a lot more like the book rushing to tie everything off before cancellation.

I will admit I forgot Ares's son Alexander, who got a couple of spotlight issues. But yeah,t he rest of them were just kind of…there. Bendis tends to create Greek choruses in his comics rather than functioning ensembles.

In fairness, the actual Secret Warriors were the least interesting part of Secret Warriors. As soon as Bendis left, Hickman pretty much shoved them into the margins and focused the book on Nick Fury and his weird relationships with Strucker and the Contessa. I'm not even sure most people could name any of the Secret…

I don't see why they're bringing in a new villain when Robin Lord Taylor has been doing such a good job as the Pequod.