The fries, I find, vary wildly by location. A lot of the McDonald’s near me wildly undercook the fries, and the result is close to inedible. There’s a location a bit further afield, though, that cooks them properly, and they’re still reasonably tasty.

Yep. It was tasty, if a bit filling. The problem is that it wasn’t around for very long, and I’m convinced they ended it because of the decision to move towards fresh beef patties for the quarter pounders.

I’ll go with the Empty Hand, from Grant Morrison’s The Multiversity. Sits outside of reality itself, is omnipotent, and is possibly the evil counterpart to the Presence (DC Comics’s version of the Judeo-Christian God). Of course, since he was created by Grant Morrison, he’s also possibly us, the readers.

Honestly, the OS was the least of the thing’s problems. I still have a soft spot for Mac OS 8/9: I think it’s one of the most attractive systems ever made, visually, and while it was starting to show its age quite a bit in terms of capabilities, it was simpler to learn than Windows without being too restrictive.

Before Fallout 3, the entire combat system was fully turn-based, so they concept of “slowing time” didn’t really apply in the first place. You had a certain amount of action points per turn (up to 10, IIRC, depending on your agility), and every action took a certain number of them: each step took one point, and…

DC actually collected almost all of Brennert’s work (I think it’s only missing a couple of Wonder Woman stories) for them in a graphic novel a couple of years ago. Don’t be fooled by the Tales of the Batman title: it also includes “Should Auld Acquaintance....”

Yes, but I demand an obsessively scrupulous level of verisimilitude in all things. ;-)

Peter David’s run is, definitely. That’s where the whole “merged with a human woman, became an angel” business comes in. But the character before that point was kind of a hot mess, deeply intertwined with a weird Silver Age tie-in story about pocket universe that had been created to patch a hole in the backstory of…

To clarify, the hairy Lex Luthor was actually a clone body that the original had grown and transferred his mind into to survive the effects of kryptonite poisoning which, as it turns out, is actually fatal to humans after all with long enough exposure. He’d been wearing it as a ring. Oops. He then presented himself to…

It’s “Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot,” the final story in Christmas with the Super-Heroes #2, the second and final of an annual holiday anthology book published by DC in 1989. It’s mainly a Deadman story, with the opening pages (not shown here) depicting him watching/briefly possessing a man celebrating Christmas…

Boston Brand was a circus acrobat (as he mentions in the comic), and the costume and mask were part of his shtick. He kept it around after his death because... why not, I guess?

The pencil work on this is lovely, but the modern (computer?) coloring is ruining it for me as a piece of ersatz 1985 comic art. :-/

Sorry, but Gerry is right: Shakespeare is absolutely considered Modern English. The differences between Elizabethan early Modern English and contemporary English may be jarring to many modern people, but they’re not significant enough to be considered a different language. Shakespeare’s prose may be confusing, but the…

To clarify, DC didn’t start calling the character “Shazam” until the late 2000s. In-story, he was always still Captain Marvel. It’s just that, due to Marvel having snatched up the trademark for “Captain Marvel” before DC licensed (and later outright bought) the character, DC couldn’t use the phrase in the title for…

The trailer itself is... not great, to say the least. But I’m not quite ready to check out regarding the show itself. From what the trailer tells us of the story (and what you’d expect from this kind of thing, really), it looks like they’re trying to show Dick Grayson in a bad place in his life, possibly having…

Well, since Duke Nukem Forever actually came out, something else had to step in and fill that void. Star Citizen is the hero the gaming industry needs.

They won’t be in grocery stores and gas stations because the grocery stores and gas stations don’t want them. Everyone criticizes the comic book industry for neglecting traditional outlets like those, as if they could wave a magic wand and change things. Comic books didn’t abandon the newsstand: the newsstand…

I actually felt like the first was a bit of a bait-and-switch. The trailers hyped up the whole classic arcade thing, but the bulk of the movie was spent with something that felt decidedly more modern and... cell-phone-y, I guess? It was still a strong movie (and possibly stronger because it didn’t rely on nostalgic…

The thing is that a lot of legitimate NES games use similar tricks, albeit not to the same extent. The real thing that catapulted the NES past its initial competition was the ability to extend the capabilities of the hardware by adding new hardware to the cartridge itself. Without custom memory mapper chips and the…

If I remember correctly, “Remembrance of the Daleks” isn’t being shown. No explanation why, but there are no Dalek stories not written by Terry Nation in the rotation, so everyone’s assuming there’s some sort of rights issue with the Nation estate.