Barnes & Noble just got shipped a ton of Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman related books and merchandise, if that's any consolation.

"There were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could."

That's just how the British teach children, at least according to Rowling and Pink Floyd.

Except it TOTALLY did transform YA lit in a way like Star Wars did cinema.

Don't bad mouth the meteor that killed the dinosaurs - it's why we're here now, talking about wizards and shit.

WHUTS AWL DIS ROWLIN GOIN ON DEN?

My wife was huge into the books (still is, actually) and I tried to cheer her up about Dumbledore by claiming that he had a backdoor of some kind back to life, too, that his death was all part of an elaborate, Rube Goldberg/Batman-like scheme to trap Voldemort.

It makes some sense to make Ming green, I guess. He's at least an alien from the get-go, hailing from Mongo (oh god, that name) and such.

Death of Superman is not a good comic. It's the fallout that follows that was good (twenty years ago when I last read it).

Yeah, but… those spider leg things growing out of them. [shudder]

Lots of people who should have kids don't. But the majority of people who shouldn't have kids do.

Took L'iL Punk to the symphony this weekend for a little bit of our old friend Ludwig Van. The boy enjoyed it, and behaved spectacularly well (the couple that sat behind us complimented him at the end), although he did sit in my lap for most of it. Mrs. Punk is in the chorus, and she got to sing "Ode to Joy." Now, I…

I think probably explicitly modeled after Liz Taylor (who didn't really have violet eyes), but yeah, Lois has had that eye coloring for a while. Watch the Animated Series, she totally has purple eyes there too.

I was never interested in it so I never looked into it. The whole idea seems weird to me. It's possible for Diana to be the runner-up, I guess (like in the Dark Knight or Kingdom Come continuities) but in any setting where a Lois Lane exists, than she and Clark Kent must be destined to be together. That's probably…

Post-Crisis Lois Lane was a certified badass. Maybe even moreso once she and Clark became an actual couple, and she became the anchor on Team Superman. It's not that she's incapable of handling danger or that she makes stupid chances, it's that because it's a Superman story, the stakes are so high that even someone…

They took very seriously the fact that they were trying to entertain children, and assumed a 100% audience turnover every four years or so.

He had the kind of thoughts that kept him out of the really good schools.

It's some kind of genius, saying nothing and yet saying everything. He talks like James Joyce wrote. Total stream of consciousness, no pauses, no filters.

Apu, just say "slavery."

I believe it was George Carlin who pointed out: "THEY want to rule the world? Fuck that, that's OUR job."