"Perhaps more surprising than this advice is the tacit admission that nukes could strike at any time, without much warning, just the way the 9/11 attacks did a decade ago."

@Gospel X: Yeah, in my sporadic comic buying I vaguely recall picking up some Avengers reboot a few years back where Spidey and Wolvie were both Avengers. Blasphemous to my Bronze Age sensibilities!

I guess I'm hopelessly out of touch for thinking Storm, Wolvie, and Colossus should be Dino-X-Men?

Worst of all, giant rift worms have been known to fuck with GI Joes and Cobras alike...

I've got a bad feeling about this...

@bohica: You win this thread.

The top of that spool table looks like a mini head shop....groovy!

@WookieLifeDay: I know, right? The first two acts were pretty decent, even if Branagh is an egocentric tool and DeNiro wasn't quite right as the creature (Ron Perlman would've been better). But then the last reel was all ZOMG! LOOKOUT! MONSTER BONHAM-CARTER!!

@Steve Williams: I've always supposed this myself about the webcomic. And about 'Shit My Dad Says',FWIW.

I'm biased, having had all of my stories appear online, but I think there's been a pretty dramatic shift in the past few years toward respect for ezines. SFWA membership, award noms, Year's Bests, etc., all seem wide open to online-first publications these days.

@ServoCannotHoverOverGrates: How so? Generally, such anthos are paying the same reprint rate to authors,regardless of whether the story originally appeared in print or online...

@Phubarrh: That this comic book-ish illustration ever got cred in the mainstream press is a sign of just how bad corporate US/UK journalism is...

Ah yes, HYDRA's most diabolical, fanatical operatives — the dreaded Beaver Corps!!

@George Lampard: I almost thought (hoped?) that was a version of one the various 'guardians go incognito on earth' moments from the comics...

Arg. Had high hopes. Usually hate CGI, but CJA is right that this is the one superhero flick where it makes the most sense. So visiually, no issue - Renolds def. LOOKS like Hal Jordan as, say Neal Adams drew him.

@antonchigurh: Not in his wildest dreams. :p At most, he might be able to benchwarm with LEONARD Ghostal

""Childish pranks just don’t have a place anymore," he said. "What may have been seen as cute and clever years ago really doesn’t get that kind of reaction today."

Doomicorn FTW! I always knew all that BS about how bleak and depressing Latveria is was just capitalist propaganda...

There are also the protagonists of this short story, which features what is possibly the best title in the history of literature:

Uhuhuhuhhuh Beavis has a...