Dan

So, on my way to work this morning... I saw rain fall upwards. I saw a cat chasing a dog. I saw a Republican giving a backrub to a homeless person. And I heard Des Reddick give a good review to a Dan Slott book. Am I in the Mirror Universe? Does Aquaman have an eyepatch?

That can't be right. I was a college sophomore when Bill Bixby died. Oh, fuck. I am old.

Man, Mike did wonders with this. I was sick as a dog this weekend, and Mike managed to take my reviews and give them some semblance of literacy.

Sigh... I'll get the bee suit... (Damn typos.)

Well, maybe if you found some radioactive ooze or added some werewolf porn... I ate my sandwich a little earlier than usual today. Does that do anything for you? DRAMA! Call TNT. Next week, on Law & Order: Cubicle Farm, Dan falls asleep in a meeting!

Well, maybe if you found some radioactive ooze or added some werewolf porn... I ate my sandwich a little earlier than usual today. Does that do anything for you?

That's kind of a specious argument. By that reasoning, Spider-Man could be in the DCAU. Hell, I could be in the DCAU. And no one would want to watch my cartoon. Entire podcastas would go by featuring five episodes in a row of "Dan sits at his desk and tries to look busy."

It's gonna be annoying, but no more annoying than everyone taking a minute to enjoy a nice, refreshing Snapple in the middle of a story. DVRs and online viewings are forcing the networks to come up with this stuff. Get used to it.

Probably not http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wn4iYoMcAA, though, huh? Could someone please explain to me why Blacklash doesn't have any... you know... black in his costume?

I love D*C, but I don't think I'm going to get to go this year.

Huzzah!

Hey now. :grumble:

I'm not surprised at all. When the focus of a podcast is superhero cartoons, you're gonna bring in the young'uns. And if you can turn 'em on to something cool while they're here, job well done, I say.

Is it wrong that my first thought was "If he had said WOOOOO!, and then she started crying, it would have made a much better story"? I'm going to hell.

Okay, you guys have seriously got to stop making me want to buy games. I have no money as it is. I got Bioshock; what else do you want from me? Don't look at me... I'm not crying...

See, that's one of the inconsistencies. What does red sunlight do to him? Yellow sunlight fuels his powers, so the longer he's in yellow sunlight, the stronger he gets (which raises the very real question of why Mala and Jax-Ur were able, within the space of a few days, to catch up to 30 years of Kansas sunlight). So does red sunlight actually leech the accumulated yellow sunlight out of his cells and actively reduce his powers, or is it just that the red sunlight means that there's no yellow sunlight, and therefore no recharge available? It seems that the red sun actively reduces his powers, otherwise red sunlight would put him in about the same position as he's in every night. Plus, a "red sun" is still going to put some light out in the yellow spectrum, whereas Lightner's filter is going to remove all of the yellow. So, the sun in "Hereafter" is going to give him more strength than the filtered sunlight in "Solar Power". Very good point about the difference between filtered and natural red sunlight - this explains it even without giving Lightner more time to tinker with the intensity of the light (and giving more ammunition for criticizing the episode). Of course, I'm just defending this point, not the episode - I think both of the Luminus episodes are doubly disappointing because the framework could have been so solid, and they just fell flat. Chris I agree that some kind of explanation needs to be invented, because logically it absolutely should happen the way you describe (much like when the sun went out in Final Night*, way back when), but it's been pretty firmly established for ages that for whatever reason, red sun = immediate loss of powers. *Yes, that was me admitting that I own that.

Spider-Man 3. 'Cause I'm kind of lame.

Greatest. Thing. EVER.

I think that panda looks delicious.

What? What do you - Oh. Oh! Gross.

I cannot wait for next week's "Okay, this is weird" thread.

That's why I don't eat marinara sauce anymore. Kids just shouldn't be allowed to eat. You see, I'm trying to convince my wife of this and it's just not flying... It's a perfect system! They stop eating, there's nothing to clean up on either end! What else could your wife possibly need?

That's why I don't eat marinara sauce anymore. Kids just shouldn't be allowed to eat.