No, this has nothing to do with the comic book company—Ridley Scott will produce Marvel, an adaptation of George Pendle‘s nonfiction book Strange Angel, about the real life of Jet Propulsion Laboratory co-founder and black magic devotee Jack Parsons.

I especially liked the part where red-and-blue suit Batman issued his stern warning to black suit Batman, and then that Batman was all, “DO YOU BLEED?” I bet he does and WILL and the blood will be used to create seven different villains who all look like Orcs.

Well, you have Doomsday, right? He doesn’t just crawl out of the ground. He has his own mythology, right? So that has to be explored…

Yes, I know there are bad parents and coaches in every sport. My point is that the notion that your average NFLer can be presumed to have come up through a system of fair-minded role models is laughable.

The game your coaches—from youth ball up to the NFL—have taught you to play fairly.

The $22 “garnish tray” seems a bit outrageous, though I’ll admit I haven’t spent much time in corporate suites and don’t know what’s standard. I’m spending ~$100 on Bloody Mary mix and vodka and you can’t spot me the celery? SMDH...

You’d think so, but it sure seemed to be depicted as a map. Which doesn’t really make any sense.

This SI piece from July is fun to read in retrospect. There’s the ESPN exec preemptively finger-pointing five months in advance:

Hmm... I may have misunderstood or mis-remembered some dialogue.

The obvious challenge to this is Lor San Tekka willingly giving his part of the map to Poe, but it’s plausible that he decided that the situation was too dire to continue to wait for whatever Luke’s timeline was.

... why Luke doesn’t want to be found but left a map to find him...

What were you doing in the grays? You’re delightful!

Please continue to be the guy criticizing people’s word choices in Deadspin comments. You’re using your time wisely and making the world a much better place.

Good point, I’m sure the front office dysfunction played a part in all or many of the free agent/retirement defections. (Except Borland, who seems to have genuinely left out of fear of brain injury, which is not a 49ers-specific problem.) It’s hard to imagine an environment so toxic that NFL players would retire…

Yeah, that’s fair.

I agree it’s unlikely. Just think, of the obvious choices, he’d be better off there than in San Fran.

This is a team that has suffered from a string of poor drafts and deal, has alienated players and chased away coaches, and gone from a championship contender to an aimless afterthought in record time, and almost all of that can be traced to the ongoing battles and power struggles between ownership, management, and…

Ah shit, I forgot Russell Wilson! And my opportunity to choose between a Macklemore joke and a Ciara joke. I suck.

Ooh salty!

Is it time to start worrying about the would-be next generation of star quarterbacks in the NFL?