I can only hope they’ll include cameos by Cannonball, Banshee etc. The full rainbow of Claremontian accents!

It was a great scene, and absolutely terrifying. Holden’s rapidly swelling ego leads him to blow off the FBI’s internal investigation, to dump himself on Debbie’s behalf, and most crucially to forget that putting a label on Kemper doesn’t change the fact that he’s alone in a small room with a seven-foot-tall…

That is truly amazing.

Amen.

Heh, “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” is one of my all-time favorite essays, so that is one definite upside to all this.

Aww, you mean you bailed before the part where they have to talk their way through enemy lines, and so there’s a whole chapter of people arguing in French? Or the scene where Hawkeye gets the drop on the villain by disguising himself as a bear?

Whenever people complain that the movies aren’t faithful enough to the Tolkien’s books, I argue that a perfectly faithful adaptation would have to be the longest musical ever made.

Last of the Mohicans is, and probably will always be, the reigning champion of worst book to become a good movie.

I figured you probably had, but just checking. And you’re right, there are a million Marvel characters that he could work wonders with.

Tom King went to Marvel, however briefly, and it was glorious. If you haven’t read his Vision miniseries, it’s outstanding.

I know, he’s so smarmy and awful through the whole movie, it’s amazing.

Charles Grodin saying “Thieves aren’t breathing down your neck!” while breathing down her neck.

I don’t think there’s any movie I’ve seen more times than Caper. The weird gag of Kermit and Fozzie playing twin brothers went completely over my head as a kid, but now it somehow gets better every time.

Has Suchet actually run out of Poirot stories to adapt? I know he’s been playing that part forever, but still, that’s impressive.

Agreed. If anything, I wanted to see more of Fake Odin and Loki’s ridiculous propaganda play.

Yeah, as I mentioned below, Mr. Miracle is excellent, but that’s the only new thing I’m reading just now that jumps out as a must-read. I also just finished the first trade of Priest’s Black Panther run. It’s kind of a slow starter, but I really liked it once it got going.

King’s Mr. Miracle is fantastic. I haven’t read a ton of post-Kirby New Gods stuff, but I think you’re right about nobody else approaching them this way. I’d say this and Walt Simonson’s Orion run are miles ahead of anything else.

Agreed, although I did kind of love that scene. The Fabio-type book was a nice touch.

We had a dumb but weirdly fun variant of battle mode in Mario Kart 64: one player would go clockwise and the other counter-clockwise, while staying as close as possible to the edge (either inside edge on Big Donut or outside on Skyscraper). It’s like a weird cross of chicken and jousting with turtle shells.

I’m mostly familiar with the first 2-3 versions of Civ, but that’s honestly a little disappointing. What’s the point of a nuclear holocaust that doesn’t royally fuck up the planet in the process?