Old Man

The other thing that Marvel has been doing lately is pushing story arcs across multiple titles on a weekly basis. So if you wanted to know what the hell was going on, you needed to pick up Extraordinary X-Men, then X-Men Blue the next week, then All-New X-Men, then Uncanny X-Men, and then like Spider-Woman just to make sure you couldn't keep up.

Why do people always forget Conquest when he was part of the founding lineup? And why was he replaced by Pestilence? Wasn't Conquest the better bassist?

This is a good start but remember to emphasize decisions and teamwork. Should the helmsman steady the ship so the gunner can make more accurate shots, or evade so as not to be a sitting duck? Should the engineer divert what energy he has to weapons, engines, or shields? Should the science officer scan the enemy ship or jam their sensors? And what exactly are the implications of failed or successful skill rolls? This kind of interaction between all the PCs' jobs is what needs to be fleshed out in Hero.

Death?

Books by the Foot

Sort of bummed that I missed the casting call for this one, but only in a fantasy sense, since I'd never have been cast as anything except perhaps a hideously deformed drooling madman.

Yeah, but wouldn't you rather catch leishmaniasis or Chikungunya if exotic-sounding is what you're after?

High School Journalists Who Exposed Fraudulent Principal Found Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances

I thought Aikman was on Fox.

Black Panther and Ms. Marvel Nominated for Hugo Awards Days After Marvel VP Blamed Them for Sales Slump No, Diversity Didn't Kill Marvel's Sales The latter article even has numbers!

You would too if it was the basis of your multibillion dollar franchise.

Absolutely. But on the other hand, here we have Tony Stark, not exactly a model of psychological stability even under the best circumstances, and he is 1. exhausted 2. breaking up with Pepper 3. reeling from recent collateral casualties in Nigeria and Sokovia, the latter of which was arguably his fault. People have done weirder things under pressure.

It was the former. Tony's relationship with his dead father went through several iterations. Originally he resented his father for being largely absent when he was growing up. Then in IM2 he found Howard's message and had the tearful realization that his father was working on his behalf the entire time. In the beginning of Civil War we see that he regrets having been so estranged from his parents, and then of course he discovers that their death wasn't accidental after all. It's clear that Tony harbored a lot of resentment and/or guilt about his father all along, so it isn't that shocking when he loses it over Bucky.

You're into cannibalism?

Romo's headed to the broadcast booth.

Terrorist attack stabbing victim pulls knife from own neck, kills terrorist with it

But don't discount malice entirely either.

Should I post the pictures now?

What? What ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak English in What?

I have to say this seems like splitting hairs. This gets back to another this I've talked about wrt diversity in comics and movies, which is that while there's nothing wrong with white male heroes, it can be easier to identify with characters that more closely resemble one's own background. Indeed, there is another thread in the NGD right now about a Native American who as a boy was so annoyed that Thunderbird got killed off in the X-Men that he eventually created his own comic line. It's not current-Marvel's fault that so many of their characters hail from a point in the twentieth century where things were more white and male, and I recognize that while tweaking existing characters is hardly a perfect solution, at least they're making an effort. I'd argue that the publishers' real problem is writing. I'd have less of a problem with a Chinese woman becoming Captain American than with the whole Hydra-sleeper-agent storyline. Because to me Cap's value system is more key to the character than his ethnicity or genitalia.

I thought he preferred the latex because it worked better with the clamps?

That gets back to the dilemma we discussed here earlier, which is that Marvel has lots of established branded characters that are white males, and few that are not. So they're stuck--they can continue to field a white male lineup that has brand recognition but is not diverse (and brings in no new readers), or they can publish new characters that are diverse but have no name recognition. Or they can do what they've been doing for decades, which is change up who wears the spider-suit/armor/hammer/shield every now and then. Seriously Mjolnir was carried by a K'Kree for a decade, but a girl picks it up and suddenly people are clutching their pearls? Even the article points out that the "forced" diversity is better for the FLCS' bottom line.

I thought Pariah was more of a latex guy?

Kaepernick is only three years removed from a Super Bowl appearance, and while he's no Tom Brady, it's probable that injuries and the implosion of his team are the biggest reasons for his underwhelming performance the past two seasons. When he finally got back on the field the last few weeks of 2016, with one exception he played pretty well considering the 49ers had become arguably the worst team in football. I suspect it is some combination of injury history, boneheaded political statements, and scheme fit that is affecting his trade market.