Precisely. Liefeld copied Slade Wilson and gave him a coloring change. Much better writers and artists after him made Deadpool.

I think at some point it's going to come down to Disney wanting to continue to make a shitload of money and dominate the box office. They'll do something with those properties because they can make money off of them. 

Or torsos, for that matter.

As I screamed “Not the droids!” I realized that my wife was on a Zoom call.

What if Mandalorian season 2 is the Ahsoka and Sabine show?

Until there’s a vaccine, or widely available (>75% of the population) testing, there is a zero percent chance I will be going anywhere that requires me to stay in one place within 10 feet of random people for more than five minutes.

I won’t lie, the advent of reserved seating is glorious and I will cut it as close as I can, but I still think it’s too much as a whole.

This corona thing isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon

When it was clear a shut down was coming, I went into my favorite local place and bought a $200 gift certificate for myself. The owner wasn’t there but her dad, who runs the place in her absence, was. He’s a sweet old man and we talk all the time when I’m in there to eat lunch and hang out and grade papers. He asked…

The last night of service before our shutdown, a woman at one of my tables left a $200 tip. I almost started ugly-crying.

[PREFACE: This comment is designed strictly to annoy purists.]

God Emperor was a good read - but it is such a tonal shift from the first three books I can totally understand why you gave it up. Have you tried skipping it and jumping into Heretics and Chapterhouse? They are each a bit more action oriented and have call-backs to characters from the first books.

They’re probably upset about the fact that Chani is played by a woman of color, even though Dune is set tens of thousands of years in the future and it’s not really clear if anyone in the books is even “white,” seeing as how the civilization is a blend of dozens of Earth cultures removed from their home planet by…

That’s the Max Von Sydow effect. Very few people can match his gravitas.

And we get told a lot about his martial (and marital) prowess without actually seeing much of it on the page.

“Bring me another Duncan Idaho!”

... and cue the butt-hurt white dudebro fanboys about changing the gender of a character where a: it makes zero difference to the character but b: makes a huge difference in representation on the screen, which far outweighs the need for “fidelity” here.

Lets look at those characters.

Does this mean we might actually see Duncan Idaho being a baddass warrior instead of just being told about how he’s a badass warrior?

“tip what you can afford”