Matt the Bruins

To somebody it fits better? With paler skin, perhaps? We just got the new Captain America for about 30 seconds at the end of the last Avengers movie. I think it's a bit soon to have him pass the mantle on to somebody else.

Yeah, one of the things that worries me personally is that I have hypertension. It's extremely well-managed by medication so my readings are always good and I don't have more concerns about a stroke than the average person on the street. But I have no idea if the COVID-19 comorbidity kicks in only if the circulatory system is stressed by actually having high blood pressure, or if having the underlying condition with no symptoms is enough to put one at greater risk.

I get bristling at "Hey, you can't swim in this creek! It's government land!" or something similar and defying the rules. But when your dispute is with the laws of motion or mathematics (as in progression of infectious diseases), you shouldn't expect to win many arguments.

At 121°F I'd be dead from the gasoline fumes off the generator I'd be using to power an open refrigerator in my bedroom. Or possibly from the fridge door closing on me while I slept inside. In which case, I'd die happy and eliminate the need for a coffin.

It's not so much the leather and chrome as the idiocy, which has a large Venn diagram overlap with people who like to put multiple riders atop a high performance engine with no protective frame and race down the highways ignoring traffic laws.

Oh yeah. From what I heard back in the day, his Justice League Part 1 was supposed to end on a cliffhanger with hostile black-clad Superman under the control of Darkseid. In theory the sequel would have been the one where the heroes found hope and triumphed and everything went from monochromatic to four color. Presumably including vivid red blood splattered over vast piles of rubble and corpses as collateral damage, because this is Snyder we're talking about.

Pretty sure at least Jimmy Carter refutes that.

My biggest problem with Hawkeye being the leader of the Avengers is that he's played by Jeremy Renner. Dude drew the short straw among the original six when they were handing out personal charisma and the "It" factor, and barely spits his foot out of his mouth long enough to say his lines. The Clint Barton from the comics could step into the role no question, but not the live MCU version. They'd do better to have Rocket performing double duty with both the Guardians and the Avengers.

Maybe his response to COVID-19 makes more sense if you assume similar encouragement to voters who die before they cast their ballots. Chicago-style electioneering.

I'm just in awe of what he was able to do while undergoing treatment. I'd thought his performance in Black Panther wasn't *quite* as good as in Civil War, but knowing he was suffering from Stage III cancer at the time and likely the side effects of chemo as well... like, I'm not doing my best work if I have a headache or ate some sketchy bar food the night before. Working at all through what he was experiencing is quite a feat, nevermind intense fight choreography and turning in an acting performance that good.

If they feature the Avengers as a group rather than individuals appearing in other characters' movies, I think Rhodey is the most natural remaining leader, and the last two movies have done the work of integrating him fully with the team rather than being a guest star. Doesn't hurt that Don Cheadle is an Academy and Emmy Award-nominated actor (who's also been nominated for a whole slew of Screen Actors Guild Awards, and won a couple of ensemble ones). Of course, Spider-Man is likely the flagship character of the MCU moving forward, but that's a separate thing from Avengers team leader.

I'm sure they already have a plan in place to start using a 3/5 ratio to count people (depending on demographics). In other news, I found out yesterday that my COVID-19 denier co-worker has a daughter who's actually contracted the virus and recovered from it. It didn't seriously harm her (I believe a young college age woman in good health), so it's obviously no worse than the flu and the huge death toll is an overblown hoax by the liberal media/Deep State/Antichrist.

My assumption would be that either Ramonda or M'baku became the head of state in T'challa and Shuri's absence, and that either the latter or Okoye became the new Black Panther as the nation's guardian/protector.

The answer to that is in a direct quote: "MARTHA!"

Hereditary, at a friend's after I was stewing over some dating app mindgames. It was excellent and a very enjoyable watch. It used enough genre tropes that I could spot several things happening on first watch that my friend thought were completely obscured clues/foreshadowing. He was also disappointed that the movie didn't ever freak me out, as he's apparently rewatched it multiple times with other friends to enjoy their reactions. (Son, my Dad let me watch Diabolique with him as a little kid and I was reading Lovecraft and Straub's Ghost Story before my age was in the double digits. It takes a LOT to scare me when it comes to entertainment.)

I'll give you animation, but I think Marvel has far outdone DC's live action TV efforts with the likes of Agent Carter, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones. The DC shows on the CW can't maintain narrative coherence for a single episode, nevermind across multiple seasons and series.

Kurzhaan the Conqueror wouldn't particularly care about changing any events from last 10 years, but he'd take the trip to try and observe the energies involved in the time travel method, in the hope that it would eventually help him learn to make such trips on his own. He's displaced from the time just after the sinking of Atlantis, and he'd like to be able to go back and at least visit some of the people he left behind. Earth Girl would leap at the chance to go back in time to avert the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. If possible, she'd also tell her own past self about future Amazon deforestation, which would not end well for future President Bolsonaro. Super Model and Young Scratch would have little to no interest in making the trip.

Why would you make that when falafel patties are already perfectly vegan?

Just get Stella Immanuel to hook up with them and Bob's yer alien reptillian spirit!

He was outstanding as a teen actor in L.I.E., held his own in numerous scenes with Brian Cox, and pretty good conveying deep emotions despite his character being an uncommunicative teen in Little Miss Sunshine. I haven't seen his more recent work, but the foundation of talent is there.

Not so different if you'd read The Witching Hour. I was surprised Anne Rice didn't sue over the similarities to her book.

My greatest hits list for TNG would include "Q Who?" "Yesterday's Enterprise," "Best of Both Worlds," its follow-up "Family," "Qpid," "Time's Arrow," and "Phantasms." Would we be in agreement that "Sub Rosa" was the worst?

His interpretation departs far more significantly from its inspiration than most of the others though, it's like a Spartan outfit from 300 with Power Girl's colors. I think he should have opted for a white adult onesie with a v-neck that barely avoids showing nipples, and gone full swashbuckler with the boots. 😆

I might have worries about backwash contamination from sharing the glass, but I wouldn't be concerned about germs if what I'm drinking out of it is 80 proof.

Other than the colors, that's pretty typical for what men in period warrior cosplay might be seen wearing at conventions. Skirts aren't embarrassing if they're armored skirts! Now Power Guy in the back leaves less to the imagination than some go go boys I've seen dancing in cages, so I think we can credit the cosplayer with balls as steely as the character he's dressed as.