The least worst, yes. It works marginally better than all the rest, unless you're most of the population.

All of them?

No one understands him but his woman.

Hypocrites gotta be hypocritical.

On the one hand: fucking Capitalism, selling our souls and better natures for a quick buck.

The only problem I have with Merlin's story is that it is clearly the 2nd Act in a 3 Act story. But Zelazny left us before he could get around to finishing the thing.

Exactly. There were forces at work beyond just Catwoman and Elektra keeping woman superheroes from headlining their own films. It's not like Marvel was unique in any way.

You shut yore whore mouth!

It took 76 years for Wonder Woman to get a feature film of her own, and she had a universally loved TV show to stack the deck.

Yes. Yes it is. But everyone was surprisingly chill and left me alone to be my antisocial self. And my kid had a blast, which is the important thing.

I took L'il Punk to a friend's birthday party at a gymnasium and watched him run around like a lunatic for an hour. I did not, happily, have to blend in with all the other moms and dads and was allowed to be left alone. I have avoided these silly things beforehand because of fear that I would have to talk to actual…

Still. Spenser flips his shit, doesn't he?

If that's what you're calling it, I don't think you're ready.

Are you trying to tell me that Evans and Hemsworth aren't enough for you? Damn, you greedy.

This looks gorgeous. I may have to get into this. I'm not the biggest Aquaman fan, but I love undersea stuff.

A prequel?

Yeah, but that's just inconvenience.

I just can't abide the bloat of modern fantasy is all - I'll still read Tolkien, which is the same sub-genre as M,S&T - because it moves along at a decent clip. To be fair to Simon and Binabik, 'twas that virtual reality series that Williams wrote that made me give up on him.

It's all alphabetical, so I expect I'll learn all about that at the start of the "I" section - For I-Ching, of course.

Yes, the racism. I have a theory that, since his father died when he was young and H.P. was raised (in part) by his grandfather, he absorbed the racist attitudes of an earlier generation. Like, in the way my grandparents were racist but my parents weren't really and I'm not (or try not to be - I'm a white guy and I've…