That's a feta wouldn't wish on anyone.

Don't Roquefort the boat.

You misspelled "The University of Chicago."

Eric Masterson, then.

Thanks for letting me know. I was getting worried about the victims of that wave of mutilation.

Also, have the Old Cap be more popular than the new one by a significant margin, but the "system" still creates the new one.

The funny part is, there used to be a model for this: introduce a character in a hero's book, see fan reaction, try some guest-shots and one-shots, and then launch.

That's really, really, really, really, really stupid.

I liked Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, Spider-Man/Human Torch, and his Batman Adventures stuff with Ty Templeton better, but Superior is definitely up there.

With the twist that the precrime side wins.

It's the Hal Jordan problem: bringing in a new version is fine, but if you do that by shredding the old version of the character, eventually the angry fans of that character will force a reversion, even if it means becoming comics pros themselves.

Catastrophization, plus the loss of secret identities. No, secret identities don't make much logical sense, but what they allowed was for a character to have an everyday life where there could be consequences with real emotional stakes *without* life-and-death implication.

Any individual Bendis arc on a book is usually pretty fun, but he's pretty lousy at sustaining a long-term direction and eventually you notice that his characters are pretty static, even by superhero comics standards.

Unfortunately, these two goals are incompatible. Back in the 90s, for example, when Marvel tried to launch a 99-cent line, they still couldn't get into bookstores and newsstands because the price point was too *low.* A store made more money per unit selling a glossy magazine for five or six bucks in the spot that the…

Cage is an odd case; his public profile among readers is big, but it's still not like solo titles featuring him sell in Spider-Man or even Iron Man numbers.

See also: video games and, apparently, American politics

And Terry Southern was involved int he script, another fine American example of black humor.

Is it that, or "It's all another character's hallucination?"

Jason's kids are fine! They're the greatest kids! Their clothing line uses only the most beautiful golden fleece!

Now now, some of them also want to impose a bizarre, radical version of Christian fundamentalism on everyone, kill or torture gay people, and punish women for having nonprocreative sex of any kind.