Xanatos Gambit!

Hey. Knock it off.

You're exactly correct.

yep, the first really big heel of the TV-era of pro-wrestling in the 50's was Karl Von Hess (or possibly Hans Herman, depending on who you talk to) who did it up full - SS outfit, Roman salute, the works.

I think you're overthinking "Raging Bender" - they were mocking pro-wrestling, something I've worked in most of my adult life. All of the gimmicks are common wrestling gimmicks - The Foreigner (Ivan Kolof for instance), rich guy (Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiasi) and "Fairy" ("Adorable" Adrian Adonnis, Goldust) are all…

Well lots of people forget that Ollie DID run a tech company for a long time, he has some talent at design. That's ramped up in the New 52 version. It's just part of his character that he prefers wooden, standard bows instead of compound fiberglass ones.

yeah, that happened in his solo series, and it was promptly forgotten.

Yeah, I grew up in the late 80's, so the Legion was not my cup of tea. Who wants super powered teens? I wanted Batman and X-Men.

Ethan Frome is my all-time least favorite book. I had this teacher in high school who thought it was the height of literature and went over it in almost Medieval Monk-like detail over every literary convention about it. During this time I was healing from a major injury in the hospital, and she came to help fill in my…

I'm really happy Blizzard has such a strong showing - Hearthstone has been a very fun experiment and I'm glad its pointed out that you can play the game for free if you wish. It's also a nice personal reinforcement - small victories in life are capped with three dollars punked down on a few Hearthstone packs.

One of the things I like best about Remix is how it plays. You get to start with a handful of games and challenges, and as you go you earn coins. Defeating easier challenges opens up more challenging ones, and defeating all the challenges in a game leads to getting Remix Challenges, where they'll transplant games…

I think Sony could deflect about 80% of the hate they got just for saying "Yeah, you know, Marvel, you can use Spidey in the Avengers flicks." Common, The President is a comics geek, he'd be up for it. "Let me be perfectly clear… Sony is alright by me."

It's an anime series from the mid-90's. Early on in the series, one of the villains, an Alien, wears a scanning device that is supposed to tell him how strong his opponents are in "Power Levels". He looks at the main hero and yells "It's over 9000!", as strong as he is, and breaks it in his hand, thinking no one on…

Our friends at Mystery Science Theater 3000 visited Christmas twice - one Joel episode and one Mike. Joel was subjected to the horrors of 1964's "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" - where a planet of unhappy Martian children lead their leader to kidnap Santa Claus and a few earth kids, chock full of stock footage,…

I think it's because they usually tried to fit at least two or three of the core members in, and in this case, Bats, GL and Hawkgirl fit.

My favorite comic of all time, and my favorite anti-hero.

He also hung out at natatorium and we all watched MST3K too.

Huh, no entry for The Blight from World of Warcraft - a green airborn chemical weapon that can kill both the living and undead, as used by Grand Apothecary Putress at the Wrathgate.

not quite - Arthas is probably a young child during this time. A few years down the line, in the book "Arthas: Rise of the Lich King" we see him meeting with a young Varian Wrynn after the people of Stormwind are sent packing from their homes by the Orcs during the first war. (yeah, first war, which this movie is…

I'd say we had some pretty major consequences taking down the Lich King and Deathwing - but Illidan was not so big, we didn't actually kill Kil'jaden, just prevent him from coming into our world. Garrosh we didn't kill either, and now we're cleaning up that mess in WoD.