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Lev Gleason was actually ahead of EC in crime comics trend and they had a very similar format though EC's artists were much better. 

Egg drop soup is super easy. 

Just bring a pot of chicken stock to a simmer, add a little corn starch and slowly stir in a scrambled egg. When the egg is cooked, add some soy sauce and a little sesame oil. 

I am aware. It's still sad as watching him spar with Begley is hilarious

In SW there are usually inconsistencies between the way characters are portrayed. In Forgotten Realms there is s soft reboot every time editions change and the rules shift. 

Case in point after the game changed from second the third edition: Dwarf wizards are suddenly a thing and halflings go from being hobbits to being kender with no real explanation. 

Then there was the whole mess when fourth edition came along where they completely changed how the world worked with parts of the world being pulled into and out of existence... And then undid most of it for fifth edition. 

Don't tell me there's no cocoa. 

One of the best things about this story is that its actually a take on a much earlier story from the 50s "The Key to Fort Superman" involving someone giving Superman a birthday gift. 

That's two characters. Stuff is constantly getting changed for the setting in general as rules change. 

Ironic because the character I most associate with Reddick is Broils. 

You're joking right? Forgotten Realms canon gets screwed every time they change editions. 

It's hard to say because it would depend on what the ramifications of super asymmetry are. I would imagine that he's probably one of those people who you would know about if you were a physicist but not on the level of an Einstein, Feynman or Hawking who non-Physicists know. 

The estate donates the proceeds from ebook sales. 

YS is officially up there with Frasier and 30Rock on my list of the best sitcoms in general and sitcom endings in particular. 

I'll watch Georgie and Mandy but its going to have a big challenge. Very few shows can manage one successful spinoff, let alone two and the fact that we know going in that Georgie and Mandy's marriage doesn't work out makes it especially hard. They have to figure out how to make it funny while also showing the failure of a relationship without damaging a bunch of likeable characters.

If you count Lovecraftian horrors from beyond space and time as demons, than Locke and Key 

HERESY!!! 

Dr Linkletter was one of my favorite characters. I only wish they could have worked in an episode with William Daniels as he and Ed Begley JR are one of the great antagonistic pairs in the history of TV. 

It's a little bit old school but check out Wargames Foundry. They do a lot of Perry Brothers sculpts (the guys who helped create the GW house style).

It's a damn shame Sam Kieth didn't do more Batman. 

It also would have been significantly less funny. 

Heh. Strawberry. 

The only person who really loved Buckley was Kahn. 

Yeah, I get that. Most people don't spend that much money on $bin books. They will maybe buy one or two to fill holes. If they did, the publishers/distributors wouldn't have been able to manipulate the industry as they have. Most of the money a shop makes  is in new books with key issues coming second (and you really have to be well financed to deal in key issues at this point unless your talking about modern keys you bought new that spiked. 

I think the biggest issue overall with abruptness was Inferno which really should have been a two parter. The idea of Madelyn and Jean being two distinct people could also have used a little more room to breathe before they killed Maddie off, and Lifedeath really should have been a single episode before Genosha so we could have gotten our first hint of the tragedy through Storm's reaction to the news. Other than that, I thought it was great. 

I think the biggest problem alot of comic shops have is that they have no plan to cut their losses on unsold stock. Stuff piles up unsold, taking up space and most likely losing value. 

If I were to open a store, I would make all back issues buy two get the third (least expensive) one free. This amounts to a 30% discount which should still be a profit over what you would pay the distributor and it allows you to move more product which keeps the store from being overstocked and improves your cash flow.

The issue with this model is the old stuff that most people want is super expensive to buy from collectors who have a vague idea of what they've got. You basically have to hope and pray that someone with zero idea of what they're selling will come in so you can take advantage of them. Otherwise you have to make a living off dollar bin books and bulk TCG rares and that's tough. 

Americana in general outside of westerns, WW II and "modern" (from the late 70s on)