It’s not that they “no longer have the ability.” Most people have never been able to comprehend things on that time scale when it’s happening in real-time. It’s only after the fact that people are able to look back and see clear signs and the early groundwork being laid.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

I’ve only ever heard it used in pulpy adventure stories/games like Howard’s Conan world (which do admittedly have some if that implicit racism common to fiction from that time). Has it become more explicitly neo-Nazi?

Y’all got any more of them x3 jokers?

My God, is there nowhere I can be safe from being reminded that my beloved SFG are utter trash this year?

Not to mention “barley in middle school”

I don’t know about you, but I think that’s pretty good for a cereal crop.

It’s actually not (just) the acidity. Pineapples and several other tropical fruits have an enzyme called papain that breaks down peptide bonds in a rather unique way, to the point that the texture of the meat can become quite off-putting if the enzyme is not used properly

Edit: acidic or not, it’s definitely best not to put any sensitive parts of your anatomy in pineapple juice

I believe that’s a cantaloupe.

I think they do better at different things. I think DC does better at graphic novels and self-contained stories, but Marvel does better at ongoing stories and handling continuity (or handwaving it away).

If you haven’t read it yet, Invincible is great.

Lemire and Ellis’s runs in Moon Knight are amazing.

You also might really like Black Hammer, which is like a deconstruction/reimagining of the Silver Age Justice League (I think it’s Dark Horse, but it might be Vertigo). In general, I tend to like more high brow/pretentious stuff and the art, the characters, and the plot are all spectacular.

Edit: plus Hellboy, obviously. Mignola’s art and love for pulpy, over-the-top monsters and plots are just phenomenal, IMHO. Nothing like Lovecraftian horrors and world-shattering battles to make for great comics

Edit 2: you mentioned Silver Surfer, so I’m also assuming you’ve already read Hickman’s run on Fantastic Four and FF. If not, start there. It’s one of my favorite Marvel runs of all time

Neither. All the best stuff is creator-owned these days, if you ask me. Image and Dark Horse are the biggest and best “third party candidates,” but Boom and Dynamite have some good stuff, too.

Honestly, find an author that you like and follow them, not the characters. Mignola, Lemire, Hickman, Faction or Gillen can write absolutely anything and make it compelling, and there are a ton of other interesting, unique authors out there these days.

If you want specific series or arcs, HMU with a few examples of what you like and I’m sure I can throw out a few suggestions (and if I can’t, someone else can)

Thanks! I knew I recognized the guy and the quote, but I couldn’t place it until you gave me the Banksy quote. Thierry is a real piece of work.

Anyone who’s ever abused ketamine or DXM knows that dissociating from reality is relaxing.

After all, have you seen reality lately?

Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas movies. Just not that one. Any movie that paints a healthy level of skepticism as a negative has got some issues in my book.

Any version of Miracle on 34th Street is gonna be a no from me, dawg. Love the actor, but that dumpster fire of a plot needs to be relegated to the dustbin of history.

🎵To Be Fay-aaah🎵

Oddly enough I usually see/write it fen/bog marsh.

I was going to ask about the order of adjectives, actually, since I find esoteric grammar rules oddly interesting and have been on a bit of a “adjectives hierarchy” kick lately.

As someone who lives in this same town, black bears are more like overweight raccoons.

Fun fact, our “city hall” is at the tiny community airport, which also had a restaurant with the best chicken wings in town (salt and vinegar wings FTW). The restaurant was still going when this happened in 2019, so my guess is the bear smelled the food and went looking for the kitchen, only to get sidetracked by the city council meeting.

I used Sync at first because of the similarity to reddit, but I finally got tired of the obnoxious ads and the hypocrisy of using an ad-supported app to browse a completely ad-free service, so a month ago I switched to Voyager and I haven’t looked back. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than Sync and it’s ad-free.

“No Skyrim until you finish your homework and finish your chores” is a fantastic motivator for my 10yo. When I can model that I can’t play Rocket League with him until after I finish the dishes, it drives the point home that IRL responsibilities need to come before video games.