"The food at this restaurant is terrible, but at least it's not formulaically tasty like the food at that other restaurant."

Superman to people complaining about collateral damage: "I don't care."
Audience to movie asking them to mourn Superman: "We don't care."

Except that he develops none of his own technology, starts out hating Superman for being a god and ends gloating about how he's going to help an evil god defeat the Earth, and generally comes across as a petulant whiner instead of a charismatic manipulator.

"I want to be one of those 'human robot' guys in Times Square, but a little taller."

Frank was never a cop in the regular comics, either. That's entirely the Ultimate version of the character.

Is there anywhere to watch Gargoyles online legitimately?

And then Superman was so messed up by it that he went into space-exile for a year of stories and,w hen he returned, gave Batman some Kryptonite to make sure it would never happen again.

Armond White, ladies and gentlemen!

I believe that's spelled "Fant4stic."

In some story or other, Castle gets arrested and told he's going to jail.

Well, Greg Rucka did finally have the Avengers decide to do something about him, and they ended up tossing Frank into a special prison built just for him at the bottom of the ocean or something.

Clap your hands if you believe this really happened.

Normally i like pun threads, but this is a bridge too farfalle.

They were sort of the ultimate commodification and blandification of grunge and alt-rock, and appeared early enough that they were a terrifying sign of things to come. They were corporate MOR rock product not a year after Nevermind.

Cajun style!

And the one about the fanclub getting killed by a fat alien.

She's very likely to become chair of the Senate Banking Committee.

Maher doesn't really interview people; he just lets his voice rest occasionally in between bursts of talking at them.

Then we can just as easily decide against them later.

Well, yes. I wrote below that people have a hard time seeing creative work as work int he sense of labor, and this is because so much of it is "invisible." They don't think of themselves as consumers of culture; culture seems to most people like the air they breathe or the light of the sun.