I was just telling my wife about the cop button last night as she is planning to attend a civil rights march next month. She doesn't own an iPhone, but she at once appalled at what the cops can do and glad to know that word of such abuses is common knowledge. (She plans to hide her tablet from open view in any case.)

A Superman who REALLY is that good and that pure and who inspires mankind to do better.

Dark Tower immediately came to mind, but I am not sure it's that hard to explain. Except then you boil it down too much. Or maybe you don't, and you are just showing that it's less "hard to explain" and more "overly complicated and could have been done much better." And I say that as a fan of most of the books.

To update everyone, my wife is doing a lot better. She spent the weekend in hospital, getting megadoses of the kind of antibiotic you can't take at home. The fever was gone by Saturday night, and they sent her home on Monday.

Really liked Metal. Snyder handles the whole League well, and it's clear that this book is meant to be over the top and weird and all the things that superhero comics should be. It could yet come off the rails, since it looks like it wants to do a lot, but for the moment I am totally in.

I read a Facebook comment from one of my wife's relative, claiming that it wasn't treason to rebel. She isn't on FB, so I am not sure I want to tell her. She will be very angry at said relative for being a total idiot. (He was born in New Orleans, but that is no excuse.)

BROOKLYN?

This coincides with a Jetsons comic from Palmiotti and Conner in the style of the recent Flintstones comic.

And everyone knows the greatest ever was Sinestro.

Worth noting that Hal's off the team and they have Simon Baz AND Jessica Cruz in his place. And that John is leader of the Corps.

JJJ wasn't always that bad. Some writers let him be a strong defender of free speech, a crusader for civil rights, an enemy of anti-mutant hysteria, surprisingly pro-union, and on occasion a supporter of heroes who didn't wear masks. PAD even made him a staunch supporter of immigration. I always liked him better as…

Hard-Travelin' Heroes was around the same time we got John Stewart. And is really a mess, well meaning as it was. Oddly, it works best for me when Denny lets Ollie be as wrong about things as Hal, since it's sort of tedious when Hal is Wrong and Oliie is Right.

MacGregor was the best part of the prequels, and he's expressed interest in returning to the part. (Technically he did, for a second or too, in Rey's Force Vision.) So he better be offered the job.

It's too bad that James Arnold Taylor looks nothing like MacGregor or Guinness. He is so good in the role.

True. But I have the sense that he was fine letting Broome and Fox and Gardner tell white stories with white heroes. And beyond that, DC was incredibly apolitical in its content, just like The Dick Van Dyke Show had famously liberal talents its stars and Carl Reiner and wouldn't have come within a light year of…

Er. Yes. But dear lord, no one wants to remember a Inuit who was nicknamed "Pieface" because he was an Eskimo, get it??

Stan's an old school New York liberal Jew. I am sure he has some opinions and ideas that haven't aged well, but for the most part he carried the ideals of the New Deal and of the early civil rights era, influenced no doubt by FDR and LaGuardia and by WWII. He gave us Black Panther when minorities were just barely…

Stan's an old school New York liberal Jew. I am sure he has some opinions and ideas that haven't aged well, but for the most part he carried the ideals of the New Deal and of the early civil rights era, influenced no doubt by FDR and LaGuardia and by WWII. He gave us Black Panther when minorities were just barely…

Speaking as someone from Queens, I hereby disown and disavow Trump. He does not represent us. He does not represent the most ethnically diverse county in the United States. He might not be the only bigot in New York, but he does not represent what my home borough and my hometown are about.

Unless voter suppression tactics work. (My wife is convinced that they already did.)