I just finished The Vision on Friday, and I have to say that it may rival Watchmen as one of my favorites. Wow. Wowowowowow. Simply incredible and cringy-good all around. I kinda want to just read it again, but my reading queue is pretty large.

*Complains about “pussification” of Wolverine*

Real.

Real or fake?

I am 100% certain that he assumed their would be a big door with a sign on it saying, “Top Secret Dungeon!!!”.

Yes Yogi, please stay away. We don’t want stupid american people here saying lies about Brazil. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016-ryan-lochte-robbery-gun-lies-swimmers-brazil-police-us-olympics-committee-response-a7198661.html

We should ban all American and British productions, since they have given us the 2016 Presidential Elections and Brexit!

You’re quite right. The Earth isn’t a planet - it’s flat, and the sun, the moon and the planets circle it. NASA has no mandate to study it.

Send research back to the Dark Ages

The left never stopped caring. The right blocked any attempts to actually help people.

So the incoming Trump team ISN’T focused on elites, special-interest groups and the well-heeled? Have you looked at his cabinet picks? It’s going to be the richest Cabinet in presidential history. Obama saved thousands more jobs through the auto bailout than Trump will by giving huge tax breaks to companies so that…

The benefits of basic scientific research accrue to everybody, whether they helped fund it or not. (Economically, this is a “positive externality”.) That means that from a profit-loss perspective for a private corporation or single individual, it is a HORRIBLE investment; it’s is GUARANTEED not to benefit the…

Maeve, of course. She’s the one trying to break free from her prison.

Maeve?

Sometimes when I’m lying in bed wracked with mortal dread I imagine there’s a GCU low key hanging out behind the sun getting ready to make contact and sort out my mum’s diabetes and fix my back teeth and take us to the brand new luxury orbital they’ve knocked together.

The Culture series by Iain M Banks. Even at its most melancholy, who doesn’t love a posthuman anarchic utopia run by sassy godlike AIs?

If you’re a US citizen and you’re in the mood for optimistic sci fi, I can definitely recommend something not to watch right now: Black Mirror, “The Waldo Moment.”

Not only do people not like the Inhumans more, many of us are saddened and dismayed by Marvel slow-motion disappearing the X-Men (allegory for oppressed minority) in favor of the Inhumans (A ROYAL FAMILY, fercrissakes!)