At any rate, if I could buy everyone Eats Shoots and Leaves to sort all of this out, I would, but I can’t, so maybe we can all back up off the grammar police routine. Especially on my hastily typed posts.

I spent the rest of the week living in a cave, braving the elements. shaving off all the hair on my body and eating only what I could kill with my bear hands to oppose for my grammatical sin’s.

The rule is simple. If it’s a plural that ends in an s, then add an apostrophe only, but if it’s a singular, you still add the s.
For example:
Prince Charles’s horse
The dogs’ (more than one dog) balls

I go by an even simpler version. If you pronounce the second s, then you write it. Offhand I can’t think of any situations when it would give a different result to your rule…

Did he single you out or something?

“He sort of leered in the vague direction of my late adolescence/early adulthood! Or the sun was in his eyes.
Either way, that’s not something you just get over.”

Did he single you out or something?

That would leave a lot of people with nothing to do around here, though, if they didn’t.

Also:

“There is nothing cool about the fact that, as of this writing, it appears that around 94% of Americans (and more every day) are too ignorant and/or just too bloody lazy to master even the most basic use of apostrophes.”

If you’re singling funky out as an ignorant American, then- bwahahahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahaha! At any rate, if I could buy everyone Eats Shoots and Leaves to sort all of this out, I would, but I can’t, so maybe we can all back up off the grammar police routine. Especially on my hastily typed posts.

I dunno, I can see Elastic Lad over Ralph, but Rubberduck? That’s a bit of a stretch.

“To be fair to Didio”
He hasn’t been fair to me.

DC really needs help right now. I mean, Marvel’s got its problems, but DC is a freking mess. At least they’ve got Vertigo.

I want to say that like it. But I’ve bought Superman continuously from before his death onto just a few months ago, when I cancelled my monthly pulls. because I didn’t like reading a Superman comic without Superman in it, or one with 100,000 Supermen. So my actions go against my mouth here.

I also hate it when people misuse apostrophe. One example I used to point out to Brian (though I gave up) is the way people always simply add an apostrophe to indicate the possessive form whenever a word ends with an s. The rule is simple. If it’s a plural that ends in an s, then add an apostrophe only, but if it’s a singular, you still add the s.
For example:
Prince Charles’s horse
The dogs’ (more than one dog) balls

Dirty plural misusers. You’ll all see one day. You’ll all see!

I’m sorry, but under Article 42, Section 12 of the CSBG bylaws, I must now ban you forever from this website.

Well … darn.

A growing number of fans want to read self-contained stories in trade? Well, then I will make them stop with “Battle for the Cowl”!

Fans seem to like stories that grow organically from their own titles and creators, like “Sinestro Corps War”? Then, we’ll turn “Blackest Night” into a massive cross-over to force them out of that mind-set!

DC fans adore Superman and Batman, especially with attention to those characters coming from mass media? Let’s get them out of their core titles, so that it is impossible for new readers to come from the movies or TV!

Fans make extremely strong connections between the version of a character written and/or drawn by a specific creator, like Geoff Johns on “Green Lantern” or Mark Waid on “The Flash”? Make absolutely sure that the creators know they are temporary help at best and that the DCU can move along just fine without them.

DiDio sounds particularly bitter about the X-Men franchise at Marvel. Well, it is important to remember that in the ’70s that title was all but dead. They had been in re-prints for YEARS. If Marvel was doing big DiDio style cross-overs in those days: Jean Grey would’ve been raped and murdered (after all, she was just a cut-rate Sue Storm), while Cyclops would’ve been shot in the head by Professor X. There would have been no “Dark Phoenix Saga” to energize the title. Even if there had been, Claremont would have been forced out years earlier for not dutifully shipping Wolverine off to the Avengers.

In other words, Marvel managed to not poison the well on a set of characters that happened to be sitting on the shelf. Someone came along and was smart enough to have a use for them. The result has driven their company for DECADES.

Ralph Dibny was the weakest link of the big three stretching guys.

I’m sorry, but under Article 42, Section 12 of the CSBG bylaws, I must now ban you forever from this website.

If they can’t be The Elongated Man with his mystery twitching nose and his long suffering ever loving bride, then two ghosts traveling the country solving crimes works just as well for me.

I kinda prefer the ghost detective idea. Ralph Dibny was the weakest link of the big three stretching guys. Plastic Man is funnier. Reed Richards is smarter. All that set Ralph apart was the relationship with Sue and that he was an amateur detective.

Well …

The ghost detectives concept keeps the best bits and tries something new with the characters. It is a shame that we haven’t gotten a mini-series or something.

I sympathize with Michael’s frustration. Some days the abuse of this innocent punctuation mark is just too much.

There’s no goddamn apostrophe in “Dibnys!” Or any other plural noun!

There’s nothing cool about losing perspective on a grammar mistake either.