Beating up pimps and gangsters is just a hobby.

She is The Question, and it does not seem unreasonable at all that The Question would be brushing up on her philosophy.

Because knowing philosophy is a vital part of fighting crime at a street level!

Jack: I don’t think Reed is a dick, I just wonder why writers often feel a need to briefly make him a dick before he realizes that he needs to pay more attention to his family. I thought that was a problem with Hickman’s first arc because it robbed the story of any suspense, because we knew what he’d do. It seems like there are plenty of stories to tell about Reed and his science and being a good dad without him being a dick.

Mary: Well, this issue does seem to address that, if that’s anything for you!

You’re not scoring points against Stan, you’re compalining about pop culture in the pre-feminist era.

…There is an awful lot of that “arrogant dick” interpretation of the character floating around the blogosphere lately, though, and it’s pretty much all projection or people repeating what they’ve heard said in an offhand crack (usually) and has snowballed into being regarded as an obvious bit of common “knowledge” (with far less of an in-story justification than, say, Asshole Batman).

I think McQueen is one of the cooler dudes in pop culture history, but I’m kind of with Bill on Bullitt. I always found it to be slow and convoluted. Brubaker does make me want to see the car chase in Robbery, though, because the one in Bullitt is impressive but does feel light due to the lack of suspense about its outcome.

In comics, we agree on most everything we each got this week. Chew and Unknown Soldier both keep getting better and need pub + support. Regarding the question about the portrayal of men you raise in your discussion of ‘Tec, I find men (myself included) to be largely unable to communicate (at least comfortably) about or while displaying sensitivity, vulnerability or any other “emotional weakness”. It would stand to reason that comics written predominantly by men would not excel at depicting those kinds of interactions.

On the contrary, he’s more likely to be delighted. Your, er, read on Reed is kind of messed up.

Congrats to you and Jill for such a wonderful series, I was lucky enough to pick up the Dark Horse Book of…volumes and always looked forward to the Beasts shorts. Seeing this done up in a full scale mini series has been a blast. Probably my favorite new series of the year.