july 1 in idea barrages

The most obscure American vice-president was probably James Garfield’s brief second-in-command Josiah Odie.

Launching the billionaires into the cold void of space sounds like a real win-win, as long as they don’t come back.

The Lucky Charms tie-in is clever, Loki, but where is the Nintendo reskin of Super Mario Brothers 2 as “Loki Loki Panic”?

So what you’re saying is, there have been 35 “Fast and the Furious” movies but Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” was never on ANY of their soundtracks?

Run for president on the single-issue platform “You can still buy a pick-up truck but only with notarized documentation that you have a job or frequent hobby that actively requires it” and you will not only be elected President of America but, somehow, also Earth.

The main problem was that DC regarded “superheroes” as a genre, a dimly lit genre where morally ambiguous demi-gods kill each other while mortals stand in distant awe. Marvel saw it as framework to hang any number of genres upon. That’s why Marvel won.

TELL ME WHY, TELL ME WHY, TEEVEE ONCE WENT THROUGH THAT POKER PHASE, POKER PHASE

A prequel to Titanic where the iceberg’s parents are killed by an unsinkable ship after a screening of Zorro and it swears revenge.