Aw, man. 68 is way too young, especially for "natural causes."

I'm very sorry to hear that.

Jesus. I'm glad things are working out. I had a friend with a brain tumor; it was her eyes that were being affected, not her hearing, and she had a couple of laser surgeries before they realized it was a tumor. She's doing great now, has a whole passel of kids herself, etc. But damn, that sort of thing is fucking…

I liked Clive Owen as Arthur. I did not like the movie he was in as Arthur.

Museums are awesome, mon ami! I won't bother trying to sell the other two, but not all museums are dedicated to boring art. Some have dinosaur bones and other cool stuff.

Armand or Raoul?

I tried to explain to my wife that "Thor" is a real name, even pointing out Thor Heyerdal of "Kon-Tiki" fame, but she just wasn't buying it.

Only acceptable if your last name is "Bloom."

Given how well Temujin spread his seed far and wide… Genghis is a fine and probably appropriate name for lots of people. I always say first names should be family names.

No he didn't. One of his kids saw him naked, and that's why we have black people. The daughter-guy is somebody else.

A lot of people are fucking stupid, 2016 reveals.

To be fair, the Potter universe is just the real universe + wizards, so it has as much story potential as the real universe + wizards has.

It was poorly edited claptrap that totally misunderstood Thanos and had Captain American and Thor kill someone under a flag of truce. That it was an Avengers crossover has nothing to do with its inherent weaknesses as a story.

I guess. Deathstroke taps into that alpha-male thing of being the baddest of the badasses, so I can see a kind of atavistic fandom creeping up around him. But Doom is just straight up the worst stereotypes of nerds, like he's a million dollars of facial reconstructive surgery away from being a regular on the Big Bang…

Man, I really hate Doctor Doom.

Crystar the Crystal Warrior #1.

How does one "overhype" perfection?

The only think I've read by Hickman was Infinity and that was horrible. That did not encourage me to seek out anything else by him.

"telling people things instead of showing them"

The heart attack thing - or a "tropical disease" in the comics - is definitely the way to go. You want to kill of the Kents with a method that Superman can't obviously stop or do anything about, because otherwise he comes off looking like a dickweed who just stood there while his dad died.