Very true. I sort of look back at it and laugh at it, but really it sucks.

Yeah, it sucks. When I was younger I wrote a very angry letter to the manufacturer of my favorite line of action figured protesting the fact that the women figures couldn’t sit down. They wrote me back and basically said, “Yeah, we could change the hip joints, but then they wouldn’t be as pretty.”

The ridiculous thing is, studies have shown that preteen girls are WAY more likely to buy and collect media-based merchandise than preteen boys are, especially the non-action figure stuff. Marvel’s missing out on a ton of sales.

That’s true, I suppose (probably the only reason we’ve got Barry Allen instead of Wally West is that he’s Dan Didio and Geoff Johns’s childhood Flash) but I do think that there’s distinct tonal and characterization shifts between the different eras, even if story elements remain the same. Personally, my favorite era…

I feel you. I have celiac disease and while I’d love to go traveling on my own to exotic parts of the world I can’t get over the fear that I’ll have no way to communicate “no wheat, rye or barley” or that other places in the world just aren’t aware of gluten the way we are since celiac is much less common in…

Please let me invite you to the wonderful world of fanfiction, where nothing has to change.

I think there was a woman in the news not too long ago who had pregnancies in both uteruses and ended up delivering the kids a month apart.

No 911 records don’t mean that nobody called. They could have called the nonemergency line or another city agency.

Oh my god, I had no idea about her son. How horrifying. I guess his adoptive parents want to spare him the trauma of knowing what happened to his mother, but you would think that they would have it in their hearts to give her something after what she went through.

You’ve never seen teenage boys with the sides or necks of their shirts cut off? Or very see-through white t-shirts? Or jeans with ripped out back pockets?

You’re right, I missed that part of the dress code (my schools had no such provision, so I assumed this one did not).

It’s not really gender-neutral, though. Since when do boys clothes include spaghetti straps? Or shorts that are actually, you know, short? Or shirts with cut outs?

You know what’s actually fascinating about abortion? It’s been happening FOREVER. Literally. It wasn’t even widely illegal in the US until the 1870’s (a change due mostly to fear that white, upperclass women weren’t reproducing enough) and before that the majority belief was that abortion was a-okay before…

If she’s out of the hospital, she’s no longer contagious. A virus does not live in your system very long.

I wonder if Pickle Woman was related to the Jalapeno man I had once.

Or if the California board set up explicitly to investigate cases like this had done their job and enforced a safe school environment for her. Ugh. This whole thing sucks in so many ways.

I do it on the same day, and generally that's how most people do it in my experience. (Actually, a lot of the time now I do my own damn color cause it's like $50 cheaper, but when I indulge at the salon I get both done).

And Wally West. And the Justice Society. Argh.

I just for the life of me can’t figure out what this series is supposed to be. Is it a reboot? Is it an attempt to streamline multiple continuities and create a new universe? Is it just a fun two months of traveling to different DC’s-of-bygone-eras? They can’t seem to settle on a tone for what they want this to be.

That's true. I think a lot of what it comes down to is not wanting to spend months or years pursuing a case against people who you would rather never see again anyway. Especially when you're probably still working crazy hours for little pay and don't have the mental bandwidth. There's not a heck of a lot to win,…