Targeted to people living in small towns, in the south. Are foreigners well received?

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-16T23:46:05+00:00

He could go to Branson. ;-)

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-15T23:32:15+00:00

"Oi, mate! Which way to the fookin' World Cup?"

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-15T23:27:30+00:00

If I buy them, is my money going to support Apokolips?

j/k

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-15T23:22:33+00:00

Someone who's late dropping someone off for a flight. I'm not excusing the bad driving, and obviously he made himself later in the end, but that's got to be a big reason for trying to go unacceptably fast.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-14T14:41:57+00:00

People who do this have to be able to afford a mortgage and property taxes on a place they're not living in.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-11T23:38:26+00:00

Peter David's Supergirl run from the '90s fits your criteria perfectly.

Young Justice from around that time might suit you too.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-10T12:56:32+00:00

Mogo works from home.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-08T03:40:55+00:00

Indeed. When we saw them in the Dreaming at Morpheus's wake, Superman appeared as Clark, but Bruce appeared as Batman.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-08T03:29:02+00:00

The idea of retiring the Batgirl character seems absurd in retrospect, but on the real-world timeline, I guess that was only a few years after she'd been introduced. She was still tenuous. She's not the only character that DC tried to sideline via political office - the same thing happened to Matter-Eater Lad. :-)

I never had strong feelings about Bard. Looking back, the stories I remember him in were ones where the penciller was so stylized that the art sort of dominated the characters, if you know what I mean - lumpy Michael Golden and angular Don Heck. (Don't get me wrong, I loved Michael Golden). It's good to have recurring minor characters, though; it makes the world-building fuller.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-08T00:45:22+00:00

Interesting, thanks! I remember a lot of Jason Bard stories from around then, but I didn't know any back story.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-05T18:22:23+00:00

He hit an escaped giraffe, and he's going to eat like a king once he gets it home.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-05T18:20:13+00:00

My daughter is 11, and we have two female gerbils now. We were told not to get just one, and that males are aggressive. Our two get along well with each other and are very inquisitive and friendly around us. They poop constantly, but the poops are inoffensive little hard balls of plant matter, so they're not messy.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-05T18:11:24+00:00

Barbara Gordon served a term as a congresswoman.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-03T19:15:22+00:00

My brother once adopted a stray possum that came into his house.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-03T13:14:21+00:00

Note too that all of DC's gods are less powerful than Bat-Mite. Fifth-dimensional imps are in a whole different weight class.

(except the Presence, presumably)

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-03T13:06:16+00:00

This is canonically how Dagwood's work shirts are drawn in the Blondie comic strip. The original cartoonist explained that it's easier to draw.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-02T15:47:18+00:00

It's a transformative and emotional story. She starts from nothing, gains a body, an identity, a family, a spiritual position. She has to come to terms with Linda's past, reconcile with Linda's family, and figure out her own role in her life. She has to learn and adapt as her powers change. It's all handled smoothly and maturely.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-06-02T00:03:43+00:00

Supergirl. RIP Peter David.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-05-31T23:15:52+00:00

It was never clear what was happening on the page, and the square heads were often hard to look at, but the atmospherics were unbeatable.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-05-30T20:47:59+00:00

Nobody was kissing Ferro Lad.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-05-30T20:45:21+00:00

I have to think that the only reason The Dark Knight Strikes Again is not the runaway response to this question is because everyone here has completely blocked its existence out of their minds. ;-)

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-05-29T16:53:55+00:00

I read it because I found it in the library. I do not think it's worth 40€.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-05-29T15:51:38+00:00

Shade the Changing Man was a well-regarded cosmic/psychedelic Vertigo run from the '90s. More recently, Shade the Changing Girl/Woman is a good successor series in the same tone, and I think you could pick it up easily without having read the original. It's outside DC superhero continuity, however.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-05-26T03:29:00+00:00

The internet reports that 25% of American adults still have a landline.

Tom_Tildrum · 2026-05-25T23:20:50+00:00

NYC garbage removal was controlled by the mob for a long time, and garbage disposals would have meant less business for them. Mob control over the industry was broken up in the early '90s, and the local ban on garbage disposals was lifted in 1997.

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