A flying snake has feather wings, a flying wyrm has skin wings.

Lovecraft wasn't just a racist. He was a xenophobe.

They still do, but those appear exclusively in books and print magazines now.

Tolkien's Hobbits have brown skin.

Catholics gonna Catholic.

Sports nerds have always been a thing. Anyone too out of shape to play but who can rattle of stats of teams or players as readily as a standard nerd can discuss the merits of a Star Trek ship vs. a star destroyer is just as much a fucking nerd as the second guy.

It couldn't possibly be worse than the reality we have now, at least..

I worked at a comic store in a city with a substantial African American population, and there were a lot of black customers. Also cops. And a lot of gay men, come to think of it. Anyway, black nerds are out there. They may just not care to go to cons.

To be fair, in some Conan stories, he spends time in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Not all of those stories are super racist, either.

Deities & Demigods. There is a feathered serpent monster separate from Quetzalcoatl, though.

I admire the fact that you still have some optimism about all this.

Hypocrisy or sheer stupidity? I am not wise enough to judge.

Pegg contributed to all three of the Cornetto Trilogy screenplays and helped polish the script to the last Star Trek film. So no, I would not agree that they are not particularly good writers. I will sign on to the sentiment that they don't knock it out of the park every single time.

Wakanda absolutely has extensive in-universe history. Coates updated it quite a bit (most Wakandans don't live in huts anymore) but Christopher Priest expanded the setting a good bit during his run. The difference is, Priest is a professional comics writer who knows how to tell a ripping yarn while dispensing…

Marvel did turn Black Panther into Daredevil for a minute.

I gave up at issue 11, right before the thing wrapped up, because as much as I like Black Panther, I realized after 11 months and $44 I simply didn't care what was going on. Too many talking heads, too much telling and not enough showing.

Very definitely. It is yet another reason why the books are superior to the films. But I can understand why the filmmakers chose to eliminate it, not least because Return of the King was already long enough as it was.

I actually watched the first five or six episodes. What can I say, I like Tom Lennon.

That seems fair.

Alas, poor Tony, I knew him well. An actor of infinite jest and something something.