Really, anything in the series (except Ghost Story which is still a great book but was read by someone other than James and who pronounces a lot of things subtly differently than we’ve gotten used to if you’ve been reading the audiobooks the whole way through like I have*). I’m sure that the books are great when read…

I’d just like to say to Rob’s list of the worst things in the EU that you linked to up there, “Screw you, Rob; A. ‘Skippy the Jedi Droid’ was awesome, and B. Just like the EU’s other famous comedy entry, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Tag and Bink, was never canon to begin with, so no one should rejoice in its wiping…

I can’t imagine there are that many people who don’t care if Swamp Thing could win in a fight against Vampire Batman. That sounds like the kind of argument the internet is made of, and that’s the problem (based solely on what you’re saying, I’ve never been much of a mainstream continuity superhero comics reader,…

Of course, the problem with Star Trek, at least from the perspective of someone who was a Star Wars fan first in the days of the old EU, stems from that same simplicity: Nothing but the movies and shows was canon. Reading a Star Wars comic or novel, I could expect that it fit into the greater continuity, which kind of…

I can’t say 100% that if you were kinda meh about Old Man’s War that the series only gets better (I’m only one book further than you because that’s as far as my local library got), but I definitely liked The Ghost Brigades slightly more than Old Man’s War, but I liked both of them a lot.

Man, this article hit me right in the feels, right below the Sith alchemical amulet and the Vonduun crab breastplate and Skippy the Jedi Droid tattoo, where all the love for almost all the weird the EU had to offer (but, fuck you Master Farfalla and your ludicrous wooden starship) lives.

Why are we seriously looking at this as an either/or prospect? Is Tesla seriously just going to stop in the event of golf carts taking dominance, or the more traditional car manufacturers, or the people pushing for self-driving cars? I suspect we’re not going to see any one of these concepts “win out” in the long run…

Are you sure it’s actually Predator? For all I know, this could just be another of their extreme takes on Batman…

You’re not alone. I liked it.

I don’t know if it’s the first change, but definitely the most memorable: Puberty hit early for me, and it brought facial hair, lots and lots of facial hair. I didn’t have a full beard in junior high, but damned if I wasn’t close to it. And for some reason, I never got that coming-of-age shaving lesson from my dad. I…

A classic maneuver right out of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War… or Zapp Brannigan’s Big Book of War.

Seriously, where are your Action Fleet people at? I didn’t think I’d be the first one to respond to that question.

I wasn’t sold for the past day or two when this was “Brain Chow”, but the Starship Troopers reference is doing it for me.

When I worked there back in 2005-ish, they were pretty much just in the Midwest. After I did my time in the fast food trenches, I never cared enough to see if they’d spread in the past decade.

As I said, they’re specific enough, but I don’t know if our relatively small population and the handful of tourists in-the-know and Wisconsin ex-pats are enough to give the humble cheese curd the recognition it deserves on a chart like this one.

You can get fish tacos anywhere. Whether what passes for a fish taco in the mountains or the Midwest or wherever is an affront to a proper Californian fish taco is perhaps another matter, but they are, in fact, everywhere. The fact that I can get a fish taco 8,022 feet above sea level where the closest body of water…

Mine is probably (mostly in the Milwaukee area)

I was home for less than a week and made damn sure to have one on the Friday I was there.

I guess most of the Wisconsin check-ins were on Fridays and probably in the cities*, as the big fried fish tradition is a Friday night thing going back to the days when the majority-Catholic population were meatless every Friday, and frying especially was, as I understand it, the approach of German settlers whereas in…

I’m pretty sure I see that entire bottom row every time I’m in the scratching post aisle of a pet shop…