Does John Carter count as a disaster?

Yes, there will be some geek rage. That's a good thing for them. Anything that reminds people that comics still exist is a good thing for them.

Elementary or not elementary? That is the question.

BATMAN: You've been corrupting the youth of Gotham City for too long, Penguin. Marijuana is a terrible drug. It's making the kids do disgusting, perverted things, and I'm going to shut you down.

If tomorrow everyone in Portland is a baby, they'll know they used too much antidote.

I'd just call her Monica Rambeau; I don't really see why everyone needs to have a code name. This could be her origin story, with her gaining her powers from the Tesseract or whatever other plot device the movie was using.

No love for Monica Rambeau? She was the Avengers leader for a while! Plus, I mean... seriously, a NextWave movie!

Most definitely. See the Wikipedia article on the subject: [en.wikipedia.org]

The 3D was okay, but it comes across as really weird-looking in places. Loki's staff, in particular, had a perspective unlike any natural object; it was like a two-dimensional cutout that had been turned at an angle. The one moment when I winced because it looked like some shrapnel was going to hit me wasn't worth the…

Final Fantasy's (Owen Pallett's) Has a Good Home is a concept album based on the nine schools of magic in Dungeons & Dragons. Rather than being pure nerdery, it uses these schools as metaphors for any number of things.

The mostly hypothetical "romance" between Peri Brown and the space-barbarian-king Yrcanos was at least as bad as Leela and Andred.

The joke is that Karen Gillan had a role in the 10th Doctor and Donna story The Fires of Pompeii, as the Soothsayer. So in a way she's already been there.

The full title of the movie should be Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: A Movie For Full-Grown Adults.

I think they rarely traveled directly between Africa and the present-day United States. Usually they'd travel to the Caribbean first, then the South, which you can see happening on this video quite often. Google "triangular slave trade."

I'm going to assume that Scarlett Johansson was confusing her character with the Golden Age Black Widow, Claire Voyant, who was created in 1940. That makes her older than Wonder Woman and just about every other female superhero, though she was (1) not the same character and (2) more of an antihero than a hero. Still,…

Actually, Gary Gygax's world (Greyhawk) has a brown-skinned race called the Flannae and a golden-skinned race called the Baklunish sharing the same countries as the pale-skinned Suloise and olive-skinned Oeridians. It makes sense, in the context of that world's history (which had a series of mass migrations after a…

Right, and that's fine for your game, but it's part of the responsibility of the rulebooks to showcase of the diversity of possibilities available. It's great that your vision includes a pseudo-Africa and a pseudo-America - both sound like fun fantasy settings to play in. But it's also possible to play in, as you…

Right, the Inheritance Trilogy is an excellent example of an epic fantasy setting with several dark-skinned races. So why not assume in the core D&D rulebooks that a setting like that exists? Ironically, it was Jemisin who brought up in an interview in Locus Magazine that medieval Europe was a more diverse place that…

Medieval Europe was a lot more diverse than a lot of people remember. There was a Moorish kingdom in Spain, remember, and Roma from (ultimately) India and Jews from (ultimately) the Middle East were a common sight in many places, and merchants and pirates can show up from such exotic places as Ethiopia and Cathay.…

Nobody's suggesting that anyone's imagination is somehow deficient; they're only suggesting that as long as the official rulebooks are including illustrations anyway, why not pick illustrations that suggest the game embraces players from a variety of backgrounds? It's just as easily done as only including pictures of…