I thought Transformers evolved from robotic monkeys who doubled as rickshaws?

Stop jizzing over native Bith cultural music, George Lucas.

Fearless? I think he's afraid of the bank coming to repossess his pyramid.

Why does the largest Julie Ruin not simply eat the other four?

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IIRC, the alternate universe had a poster for a Batman vs. Superman movie, which seemed funny at the time.

Only in the limited collector's edition.

The idea that the movie failed because people rejected his cultural appropriation seems really suspect.

Provide me with one shred of evidence that the bowler hat would have still been invented if not for the ripple effects of the American Revolution. Nice try, Oliver.

Blast Hardcheese?

Thanks, Django.

I think it's a blend of the creators of Superman, Captain America, and more, but all the people bringing up Captain America's Jewish creators as a way to validate their arguments called it to mind. Though the book doesn't go nearly as far in treating their work as sacred ground as people talking about this Hydra thing…

It's a book about superhero comics, but Chabon is considered reasonably NPRish in general…

Everyone on the internet needs to show how they've read Kavalier and Clay and they appreciate Captain America on a deeper level than you do.

I haven't played anything in a week, but I think I'm going to get Binding of Isaac from the Steam sale. I've read varying things about whether Rebirth is strictly superior but the original is cheap enough that I might as well try it.

[checks expiration date of Duracell batteries]

Actually, Ridley Scott released his director's cut of the commercial which shows Apple becoming the new Big Brother. Also the lady with the hammer gets crushed by an anvil shaped like a unicorn.

One time I saw Bill Murray in a poor performance in a bad movie. When he saw I was watching and might critique his film career, he went over to me and whispered, "No one will ever believe you."

They couldn't go much farther into the future or the type of ship and transport of slaves becomes more noticeably inaccurate. They should have at least made it 1868 though.

I thought that was a clever idea, going back to the island's powers having both magical and technological underpinnings, and providing a logically satisfying vulnerability for the Man in Black.