It's like trying to imagine a literary discussion in which names like Samuel Clemens and Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin are the only ones used.

I don't know if I'll ever be too old for superheroes.

My wife often says (only half-joking) that our kids-yet-to-be and I will be fighting over who gets to play with the best toys.

Whoops. I posted here instead to open a new thread!

Sorry.

Someone quoted someone else's convoluted argument that V For Vendetta was  a graphic novel because the series never finished, and it was completed as a book.

DC reprinted and concluded the series as a monthly and then collected it, so the argument, as I think the person quoting it here suspected, is bollocks.

To be fair to the reviewer mentioned at the start, though, the film's credits refer to "the graphic novel illustrated by David Lloyd". Because Alan Moore, the silly billy, took his name off the film.

I have a small problem with "comic book" because, here in Britain at least, it sounds just as "graphic novel" does, as if we're pretending these things are books. They're comics.

IMP.

"Comics" these days has grown another meaning, too. Those folks who used to be perfectly content to call themselves "Standup Comedians" now want to be called "comics" -- even to the point, in some instances, of trying to lay claim to the term!

The other day I realized that the current Mr. terrific is a bone headed idea. He is a genius who is "invisible to technology". By technology they mean aliens, evil sentient computers, people or characters with mechanical  add ons(like the Metal Men or Robotman), and hacker-/dispatecher characters like Oracle and Calculator.

Yet his gimick is that he commands mechanical "T-spheres" that do  stuff for him (like stun people or make force fields or shoot beams). Oddly THEY can observe him and yet they are technology.

I think maybe DC needs to sort of iron that out.

"The other day I realized that the current Mr. terrific is a bone headed idea. He is a genius who is "invisible to technology". By technology they mean aliens, evil sentient computers, people or characters with mechanical  add ons(like the Metal Men or Robotman), and hacker-/dispatecher characters like Oracle and Calculator.

Yet his gimick is that he commands mechanical "T-spheres" that do  stuff for him (like stun people or make force fields or shoot beams). Oddly THEY can observe him and yet they are technology.

I think maybe DC needs to sort of iron that out."

 I had never even thought of that...