Reading this story made me feel like a wide-eyed farm boy. I am not from a farm. NYC sounds exhausting.

When I was a kid in the 90s, round racks were still pretty common. Now I only see them in, like, Indigo.

I'm… leery of associating sales numbers with quality. Didn't Youngblood #1 set some kind of sales record?

You can't test it because you'd need the kind of alternate-timeline-visiting device that Otto Binder would have dreamed up in order to do something like that. The 50s and 60s are, like all other periods, unique times, never to be repeated. You can't practically conduct an experiment with billions upon billions of…

Not originally. The early stories are more in the all-ages pulp tradition.

What about an animated anthology series? The Surfer could appear in all sorts of different stories from episode to episode.

It seems that the point is that the quality of the Silver Age may not be relevant. Did they sell well because they were good or because they were ubiquitously available and had less competition (in the sense of the wider entertainment field)? There isn't any way to test that.

As I recall, he shaves with his heat vision and a mirror.

Good old Dada. If nothing else, it's given high school art and history teachers a reliable way to liven up the class for a lesson.

"Dammit, Pantera, you will show your stepmother some respect!"

What kind of hooks-up does one get through Buzzr, anyway?

A few days before the Paris attacks, I realized that I had been avoiding my Facebook feed and that I felt better in some way. Then the attacks happened and I decided to leave it alone for the time being. Now I just use it for messages and events and such. It's definitely something to consider not using.

Jesus Christ, Twitter humour is terrible. I get that it's really useful for some things, but damn.

Exactly. Furthermore, the fact that he was OK with it when it wasn't for him is a great sign for those of us who will likely only see this with friends, as it means that it'll probably be decently enjoyable even if it doesn't click (which was Ant Man for me).

It's a goal. I have a zillion things to work on before I'll have the proper skill level, but I don't think it's impossible.

It's the first thing that has given me even a spark of interest in this movie. If it sucked, Dowd would have given it both barrels. This seems like more of a mixed bag, which basically puts it on par (in theory) with the other superhero movies that I've seen.

Goddamn, does this ever get it right in some ways. I actually mentioned the card catalogue to a 23-year-old recently and had to explain it. Also, I remember learning DOS at a pretty decent level in order to be able to squeeze a bit more life out of the family 486. Came in handy years later when I had to back up a…

Being around your age and also a deeply unsettling child, I remember reading "Boom, Bust, and Echo" as a kid, which identified us as children of the boomers and therefore an echo of the unusual size of their cohort. This narrative seems to have been entirely surpassed by the millenial narrative, which is as…

In looking through a friend's Tumblr, it appears to be a common joke in those parts to take any given sentence from a post, put it in quotes, and add "by Fallout Boy" to the end.

It is. Plot-wise, Caleb is actually pretty important in Exodus. Caleb and Joshua are the lone dissenting Israelite spies, arguing that they can take Caanan's relatively massive military because they have God on their side. The majority oppose them until God speaks up and curses everyone other than those two to…