The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called … YouTwit-face.