I don’t mind that Marvel’s pushing the Inhumans. I think Paul Jenkins’ and Jae Lee’s Inhumans mini-series from a few years back showed just how cool those characters could be, and Ms. Marvel is awesome. But it does feel sort of shitty that they’re pushing the Inhumans in a way that diminishes the role and importance…

If current trends continue, his glue guns will eventually become part of his body. Maybe in a year or two, he’ll shoot glue from his pores.

Since someone took Doug Ramsey and Matter-Eater Lad.

Or nobody thinks SNL was as good as it was when they were 16 years old.

I think you’re right... to an extent. I think what you’re describing is true of a big, big chunk of X-MEN fandom, but not the whole thing, or even the majority. I think a lot of criticism comes from different places- there are people who want the X-Men to to revert to some past version, but I think there are plenty of…

I really miss a lot of those weird Morrison characters.

Did you read Remender’s X-Force? If you’re jonesing for some Omega Red (and 90s X-Men stuff in general) I think you’d be pleased.

I think you can do both- have a small number of x-characters and also regularly introduce new ones without things getting out of control so it feels special when a new mutant shows up. I think the X-Men comics did a really good job of striking that balance until probably the 90s when they would regularly introduce…

Yeah- I like that team but... does it really need Greg Land doing the art?

What didn’t you like? I have to admit I was sort of wary going into his run- especially with the idea of returning the O5 to the present- but I thought he got a lot of things right. I thought the books did a good job of balancing action, humor, and... for lack of better phrasing- mopey X-Men stuff. I did sort of hate…

Bummer! I actually really liked Bendis’s run- not quite as much as I liked Morrison or Whedon, but there’s a lot of good stuff in there.

I read somewhere that every X-Men fan thinks the book was perfect when they started reading it. So like, I started reading in the early 90s and so that late Claremont stuff is sort of my X-Men prototype, even though in retrospect it was sort of... not very good.

I’m having a really hard time not feeling bummed out by the new direction for the X-Men books. It’s like they’re doing M-Day (No More Mutants) and the Legacy Virus all over again and it’s hard not to feel like they’re trying to diminish the role of mutants in the Marvel U to enhance the role of Inhumans. Like, part of…

Basically everything in “Dark Knight.” They filmed it in Chicago, and removed all of the Chicago places that tourists would recognize, but if you live here? You recognize every... single... building in the movie.

I think the easiest Jar Jar troll would be to reveal that BB8 is Jar Jar- they put his brain into a cute robot and tricked everyone into buying the toy.

“Finn, Rey, Poe Dameron. My name is Mace Windu. Have you heard of... the Jedi Initiative?”

I very, very much believe that all of the conspiracies around the JFK assassination are bogus, BUT the idea that a secret cabal within the government- whether it was headed by J. Edgar Hoover, or LBJ or whoever had him killed just sounds so... Game of Thrones-y. It’s a compelling story even though it’s almost…

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