(1) STAR WARS VIII. Cameras are rolling for the next chapter of the Star Wars saga, written and directed by Rian Johnson.
(2) THAT WAS THE FUTURE THAT WAS. A 1983 cover of BYTE.
And if I squint real hard, will one of the options say, “I’ll be back”?
(3) EYE SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. A mere $3.50 on eBay!
Twilight Zone Prop Reproduction From the only Twilight Zone episode, scripted by Ray Bradbury, I Sing The Body Electric comes a Facsimile UnLimited original – entitled: Eye Lettuce, it represents one of the eyes available for the fabrication “Grandma”.
(4) RONDO NOMINATING OPEN. If you’re a fan who’s enjoyed James H. Burns’ columns for File 770, affirming that you’d like to see him as a nominee for this year’s Rondo Awards could make a difference.
Check in at the Classic Horror Film Board’s Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards threads “For Best Blog or Online Column: James H. Burns at File 770” and “The Geography of Eden” for “Best Article”. While a nomination apparently is not decided by raw numbers, enthusiastic comments are likely to help,
(5) APEX ACQUISITION. Apex Publications has acquired Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem, and expects to release the book in 2017.
Yours to Tell is a writers guide to fiction based on Steve and Melanie’s writing processes and experiences they’ve had teaching fiction, including two stints at the annual Odyssey Writing Workshop in New Hampshire.
About Yours to Tell, Steve says, “The book consists of a series of dialogues in which we discuss a number of topics on the writing of fiction, a method which we developed while teaching and continued to use for various articles and columns on both genre and non-genre writing. This is a unique approach for a writing guide, and has the advantage of presenting two different, but complimentary points of view for the basic issues of craft and encouragement which face all writers, whatever their level of skill and experience. We made this guidebook dense with practical information, empowering for new writers desiring a path for learning the craft, and inspiring even for those with more experience but wanting a fresh and encouraging view of the fiction writing process.”
(6) RECOGNIZING THE LESSON. “GUNN: ‘Hollywood Will Misunderstand The Lesson’ Of DEADPOOL’s Success” is the warning quoted by a Newsarama story.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 director James Gunn has come out with a very positive review of 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool, but warns that some in Hollywood already have misguided reasons on why the film is a success.
“I love Deadpool even more – the film is hilariously funny, has lots of heart, and is exactly what we need right now, taking true risks in spectacle film,” Gunn posted on Facebook.
However, Gunn takes issue with the perception of an unnamed studio executive who stated (via Deadline) that Deadpool succeeded because “The film has a self-deprecating tone that’s riotous. It’s never been done before. It’s poking fun at Marvel. That label takes itself so seriously, can you imagine them making fun of themselves in a movie? They’d rather stab themselves.”
“Come on, Deadline,” said Gunn, going on to state that saying Marvel wouldn’t poke fun at itself is “rewriting history.”
“Let’s ignore Guardians for a moment, a movie that survives from moment to moment building itself up and cutting itself down – God knows I’m biased about that one. But what do you think Favreau and Downey did in Iron Man? What the f*** was Ant-Man??!”
Gunn goes on to say that he worries studio executives will learn the wrong lessons from Deadpool.
“Deadpool was its own thing. THAT’S what people are reacting to. It’s original, it’s damn good, it was made with love by the filmmakers, and it wasn’t afraid to take risks.”
(7) TODAY IN HISTORY
- February 15, 1950 — Disney’s Cinderella opens
(8) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY BOY
- Born February 15, 1954 – Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.
(9) CONTINUED NEXT SLATE. Vox Day posted his slate for another Hugo category – “Rabid Puppies 2016: Best Related Work”.
The preliminary recommendations for the Best Related Work category:
- Appendix N by Jeffro Johnson.
- Between Light and Shadow: An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, 1951 to 1986 by Marc Aramini.
- The Story of Moira Greyland by Moira Greyland.
- Safe Space as Rape Room by Daniel Eness.
- SJWs Always Lie by Vox Day.
(10) OCCURRING IN NATURE. The weekly science journal Nature for at least a decade has run an SF short story on the last page of each issue. The story in the February 4 issue was Robert Reed’s “An investment for the future.”
Nature’s brief background statement about author Reed says —
Affiliations
Robert Reed is the author of several hundreds stories and a few novels. He won a Hugo before it was controversial. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
(11) FAVORITE SON. Jim C. Hines pleads for equal time for the “Adventures of Michigan Man”.
From time to time, I see people collecting headlines about the wacky adventures of “Florida Man.” I decided to take a look and see what my home state’s “superhero” has been up to lately…
Two of his ten amusing examples:
- Michigan Man proposes at Wal-Mart, gets arrested. Remember kids, don’t steal edible thongs!
- Michigan Man Flies Off Car Hood When It Rams Police Cruiser. You will believe Michigan Man can fly!
(12) KEYBOARD KOMEDY. Meanwhile, Ohio Man was surprised when his fingers didn’t type what his brain commanded.
I was searching for news on Scalia and accidentally typed my own last name in the search box. Was deeply confused by the result.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) February 15, 2016
(13) DREAM LOUDER. At The Space Review, Dwayne Day’s article “In space no one can hear you dream” discusses the importance of entertainment set in outer space.
Space enthusiasts, particularly those who have a vision of humanity spreading out into the solar system and establishing settlements, have had a difficult time convincing anybody other than a small group of true believers of the legitimacy of their cause. To have a broader impact they need as much help as they can get, particularly in the form of mass entertainment that can shape the popular culture and influence the general public, making settlement seem not fantastical or crazy but instead acceptable, as simply another step in human evolution….
The Expanse is the closest depiction of what space settlement advocates must see when they dream—and yet it is not a very positive vision of the future….
Life is not entertainment and entertainment is not life. But space advocates need popular entertainment to provide positive depictions of humanity’s future in space, not negative ones. They need a culture that is not hostile to their religion, and so far they haven’t gotten that, not even from the most sophisticated portrayal of solar sci-fi to date. Dying of asphyxiation or starvation on Ceres is not an appealing vision, and none of these examples of popular entertainment have provided a satisfactory explanation of why humanity should spread out into the solar system. So far popular entertainment is not helping. Perhaps somewhere right now a space advocate is penning the next great movie about humans moving beyond low Earth orbit, one where the achievement may involve struggle, but where the payoff is greater than simply survival against all odds. After all, survival is a heck of a lot easier by simply staying on Earth.
(14) DEPRESSION ERA MARS. BoingBoing reproduces the colorful alien tableaux from the astonishing “Psychedelic Space Alien themed Art Deco style 1931 high school yearbook” produced by Los Angeles University High School.
(15) MARS MY DESTINATION. Motherboard has the story about how “Britain’s Mapping Agency Made a Map of Mars”.
We’ll need maps when we go to Mars, too. At least, that’s the thinking behind British mapping organisation Ordnance Survey’s new map of the Martian landscape, which presents an otherworldly location in a format earthly ramblers will find familiar.
“There’s certainly no reason why you couldn’t imagine a future where someone might actually use a map on Mars in the same way that they would use a map on Earth,” said cartographic designer Chris Wesson, who made the map of a patch of Martian topography 3672 by 2721 km across, to a scale of 1:4 million.
(16) MARTIANS NEED PHONES TOO. This 1995 ad for AT&T stars Ray Walston who played a Martian living on Earth in the 1960s TV series My Favorite Martian which is the in-joke
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Dave Doering, Martin Morse Wooster, Mark Olson, and Will R. for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Steve Davidson.]
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However, since it is “best related work,” I believe that Ordnance Survey map is eligible for next year.
My current shortlist for Best Related (in alphabetical order):
Bandersnatch
Drama and Delight (the Verity Lambert book)
Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy
Letters to Tiptree,
You’re Never Weird on the Internet
Women of Wonder
But I haven’t looked at the Wheel of Time companion yet, so that may be an addition. I considered Sad Puppies Review Children’s Books and Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons, but I think I’m falling on the side of No Kerfuffle works. I definitely don’t want to boost the signal for the original pieces that some may be responding to.
Happy Birthday, Mike.
My feeling is that if BRW/fan writer categories were dominated by kerfuffle stuff then that would be bad. However there being nothing would look like it didn’t happen and not acknowledge the quality of some of the writing that occurred around it. So I’m rationing myself to one kerfuffle related nomination per category.
@Mike Glyer, this is the internet, so I won’t sing, but please imagine more or less tuneful humming. Happy birthday.
@Phantom – Can Dolph Lundgren play Blade in a movie? No. Can Wesley Snipes be Batman? No.
I agree with you, but not because they don’t look like those characters. It’s because I’ve never found their acting convincing and think much of what makes comic book movies work (or not) is when the creative people involved are fully invested in their movie’s universe. That investment doesn’t require casting to match the look of comics from the 30s, 40s or whenever, though. As has been pointed out, Samuel L. Jackson is Nick Fury. Talent works like that, erasing what you thought you knew.
Aside from that, your larger point about respect for the source material is something with which I agree, but we part ways about what that respect means. It doesn’t mean trying to duplicate the look from one medium to another, complete with casting that would reflect the norms of a different age. After all, if you can suspend disbelief long enough to watch and enjoy movies based on comic books, why limit yourself in what you’re willing to suspend disbelief over? That’s just narrow minded.
(9) UNSURPRISING SLATE
I’m kind of light on Related Works at the moment, but I have Bandersnatch and Letters to Tiptree queued up. Right now, I only have the Felicia Day book on the list, although I suspect if I go through my 2015 reading I’ll find at least one more I’ve forgotten. The Thing Explainer is around here somewhere too.
Happy Birthday Mike!
Snowcrash – If you’re putting The Outlandish Companion on your best related work list, it should be Volume Two. The first volume was originally released in 1999 and I don’t think there was much updating of it in the revised edition to make it qualify.
Regarding BRW:
a. It was changed from ‘book’ to ‘work’ as part of a ‘Making the Web Eligible’ initiative, so it would seem that the primary point was to allow different modes of publication rather than different lengths. I agree with those who think that short essays are not the best fit for this category, and I think there is a danger that if nominations of them proliferate they may crowd out serious (or indeed humorous) reference works. In general it seems to me better to treat them as qualifying the author for Best Fan Writer, though this would not work in every case, e.g. ‘A Detailed Explanation’, part of the point of which was that the author was not a fan writer.
b. Mr Day’s nominations seem more true to type here than in other categories. I am deeply disturbed by the appearance of Marc Aramini’s book, but as Gene Wolfe is a noted conservative figure, it can’t be denied that it is relevant to Puppyish interests.
c. May I once again mention The Complete Discworld Atlas? When I first raised this, someone asked ‘is it eligible?’; I can’t for the life of me see why not, but as people so frequently fail to mention it, I am becoming worried that it is in fact ineligible for reasons I haven’t grasped, in which can someone tell me?
Hey, the Nook version of “Letters to Tiptree” is on sale for $0.99 today at bn.com. I didn’t check other sites. I was going to download a sample, but for that price I just bought it.
@Andrew M.
I think you only need to look at the publisher of Between Light And Shadow to realise why VD has it on his slate.
@Petréa: SMOF News looks cool! Kudos on the project. Do you know if there’s an RSS feed I can follow?
12) Ah muscle memory, my favourite one of those is from a Castle blooper reel where Stana Katic dissolves in laughter after failing to write Stan Lee on the murder board without adding an extra A for the umpteenth take.
How related is Thing Explainer? I was rather surprised that What If?, which clearly is related, did not turn up on the longlist last year.
@The Phantom: Marvel movies don’t suck because Stan Lee can finally tell Hollywood what to do. That is what’s happening. They should pay attention to what Stan Lee says instead of wasting hundreds of millions casting black actors to play the part of white characters because politics.
Can Dolph Lundgren play Blade in a movie? No. Can Wesley Snipes be Batman? No.
Actually, DC had a what-if miniseries called “Just Imagine…” in the early 2000s that re-imagined DC heroes, including an African-American Batman, female Flash, and Peruvian Wonder Woman. Guess who wrote the series? It was Stan Lee. I guess they shouldn’t pay attention to what Stan Lee says?
@Andrew M I’ve checked Amazon UK and it was published in October last year so it should be eligible. Unfortunately, you’ve now sold me a second book in a matter of pages! When I get it, I’ll double check eligibility.
Complete Discworld Atlas will go on the TBR pile as soon as it’s delivered! (It’s now a shelf, actually. I got a new bookcase and I am being vicious about maintaining a short shelf for what is to be read NEXT. Not in general, just NEXT. It’s only got ten books at present, so I’m doing pretty well.)
Thank you for the thoughtful response, Camestros. I will see what I think and spin those two back into the mix for the time being.
Has anything ever been disqualified for having insufficient SFF content, or, for that matter, for being defamatory? (And, no, I am not considering that anything on my short list or long list falls into that category. Somebody’s slate, however, makes me wonder…)
Lenore: Is that a special that’s just today?
I also bought “Letters to Tiptree” today; overcoming the fact that I’ve read woefully little of Tiptree because it just sounds like a fantastic book, which I’d love to be able to nominate. I got it for $0.99 too, except I got it at Weightless Books.
Which is an absolute steal, since Weightless Books has a promotion until the end of February, so you get a free subscription to 4 issues of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet along with any ebook order. So… one buck, Letters to Tiptree, 4 issues of LCRW.
(I was actually on the site to buy Stranger in Olondria, which I put at the very top of a list of half-a-dozen book recommendations hand-tailored to me by Kelly Link in her AMA.
…in other words, I’m now reading non-fiction about an important author I haven’t read, engaging *squee*Kelly Link*squee* and getting EVEN MOAR book recommendations from her, and subscribing to an oddball independent short fiction magazine.
I feel like I’ve somehow become more engrossed in this hobby over the past few months…
😛
)
Standback asked:
AFAICT, there’s no way to get RSS feeds from Ello. Sorry.
I guess there’s a case to be made that the D&D Satanic panic was about the game’s use of elements of fantasy literature and folklore, so a book on the subject is about fantasy.
What did you like about the book? Did it cover the late Joe McGinness’ idiotic Cruel Doubt, which fueled the panic by pinning a murder on playing the game?
@Andrew M: my argument for Thing Explainer is that it’s presenting complex concepts in a novel and ingenious way – using deliberately restricted language – and that sort of innovation with the idea of writing is part of the concept behind SF, so that makes it eligible as a Related Work. (Also, it has pictures of space stations and spaceships and dinosaurs!)
(I say “innovation”, but of course there’s nothing entirely new under the sun, and I can think of one similar piece, John Sladek’s short story “A Game of Jump”, written with a vocabulary of 300 common words and seven proper nouns.)
That is my rationale, and I will defend it to the death… well, all right, to the extremely minor inconvenience.
I’m dubious about Thing Explainer.It’s great, but is it genre?
I dunno about Snipes, but I would watch Idris Elba Batman with hearts in my eyes. Or Isiah Mustafa. Little anime hearts.
@rcade
It describes a buffet of human stupidity and mass idiocy to the point I’ll have to go back and check if that specific example made it.
@RedWombat – that would be after Idris Elba plays James Bond, of course.
Today’s been a particularly joyous reading day for me.
I’ve been wanting to read The Goblin Emperor for a while now, and it’s finally clawed its way up to the top of my reading list. Listening list, actually – and it is marvelous. So many fantastic characters; Maya’s constant tension and awareness of how very close he is to utter disaster; the great society, which does such a good job of not being any one thing – always a blend between larger streams and cultures, and the individuals within them.
And the narration. It is perfect. It is divine. This is, I think, my fourth or fifth audiobook in recent times, and all the others had skilled narrators — but each one of them had something off, something annoying that detracted and made the book hard to listen to. One felt monotone, always returning to the same basic cadence whatever the situation; another one had range and emotion, but made huge exaggerated voices for secondary characters to the point it was ridiculous and distracting. Hey, I get it. Reading a book aloud is a weird format and it’s hard. But this narrator, Kyle McCarley, is fantastic. Pitch-perfect. I’m loving it.
—
And then in the afternoon I read “Please Undo This Hurt,” by Seth Dickinson. Wow. Gut-punch. It’s a story about depression, despair, guilt, and suicide. Not a cheery story, so you might give this one a miss if those are trigger topics for you. But they’re topics I think weight heavy on all of us now (no surprise, I got to this one from Charles Payseur’s recommendations on “Millennial fiction”). And if you’d like to read an excellent, engrossing story that tackles them head-on, I recommend this story highly. It’ll be on my ballot.
I think James Bond would be ideal to play Batman. He’d be really good.
@ Kip W – Maybe Bilbo Baggins could be Robin, then!
@Chris S, Kip W
I think The Phantom’s reactions to Idris Elba as Bond would be pretty epic.
@The Phantom: “On TV there’s Daredevil, Agents of Shield, Agent Carter. Great shows, commercial successes. Lightning striking that many times in the same place, when the only thing DC can claim worked is a couple of Batman movies?”
DC currently has SEVEN live-action TV shows airing in prime-time, three of those in their first seasons, across three different networks. For those following along at home:
Arrowverse: Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow
Vertigo: iZombie, Lucifer
Other: Gotham, Supergirl
…and there’s a Flash/Supergirl crossover slated for late March. That looks pretty successful to me, especially since I’m utterly hooked on all but one of the shows. (I haven’t reached Gotham in my to-watch stack yet.)
I’ll add my voice to the “Happy Birthday” chorus, Mike 🙂
I’ve been bubbling all day with tidbits and great finds and fannish enthusiasm. And File770 (and all the fine folks here!) is where I found the community for all that. Thank you, and have a wonderful, wonderful year 🙂
Yes, but transposed to a Gotham City that resembles South London with Ray Winstone as Harvey Dent, Kathy Burke as the Penguin and John Boyega as the Riddler.
Oh and maybe actors like Gary Oldman or Michale Caine as…oh, ah, yes, never mind they’ve done that already.
@Rev Bob: I’m a bit behind on the Flash, but last I saw they were teasing a black Kid Flash/ Wally West. Sure hope the show doesn’t completely, instantly tank if they go through with that.
But does Ruth Wilson play Robin or Selina Kyle?
Simon Smith and the Amazing Pixel Scroll
Stephen Fry as the Joker/Riddler’s English counterpart the Witty Quizmaster?
For some reason I can quite easily see Idris Elba as Batman, or even as Judge Dredd (though only if Karl Urban isn’t available) but not as Bond. This is causing me some considerable cognative dissonance.
My vote is Raza Jaffrey for Bond personally.
Ooooh a Batman/ The Bill crossover?
Scene: Sun Hill CID. DC Tosh is at his desk when DCI Burnside enters.
Burnside: Bunch of bloody kids breaking windows down the Meadowlark Estate.
Tosh: Again? I’ll go give them a slap.
Burnside: They’re being led by some geezer in a funny mask.
Tosh: Leave It out.
Burnside: Shut it and hand me the Batphone.
Scene: Wayne’s Manor. Alfred (Jason Strathan) picks up the phone.
Alfred: Yeah what? The bleeding Meadowlark again! (Hangs up) Oi! Bruce!
Bruce Wayne (Idris Elba): I bloody heard didn’t I? Quickly, to the converted Batloft to change, then to to the BatMini. Where did we park it?
Alfred: By your Bat allotment. Drive careful, the boot is full of cabbage.
@BGHilton: “they were teasing a black Kid Flash/ Wally West. Sure hope the show doesn’t completely, instantly tank if they go through with that.”
Well, nobody’s complained about Iris (a) being black or (b) growing up as Barry’s near-sister yet. At least, not in numbers big enough to matter. At this point, it would be weirder if show-Wally wasn’t black, since he’s her biological brother.
@Rev Bob. That’s true. And now that I think of it the new Firestorm is black too and he’s been spun into his own series. It’s almost as if the Phantom’s theory re casting black actors as white comic book characters being instant poison is… let’s be charitable and say ‘overstated’.
@dex
Now that I could see actually.
“If you can’t find five thought-provoking books that fans of all political persuasions can enjoy, you’re doing your jobs wrong.”
A) **** you, this isn’t a job.
B) Why should I care about nominating things that are agreeable to other people?
C) It’s Best Related Work. Not Best Serious Academic Work.
@The Phantom
You think the problem with the latest Fantastic Four movie was that Johnny Storm was black? (John Seavey hit that point out of the park far better than I could). You think that Stan Lee has any input on the newest Marvel movies other than showing up for his cameos? You think that Spider-Man is two words?
By the b(u)y, book deal alert: Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is US$1.99 today at Amazon, Kobo, and probably elsewhere.
Happy Birthday, Mike!
If Thor could be a frog, I don’t see why various previously white supers couldn’t be black.
I’d like to see more female supers also. I’m perfectly okay with dreaming up new ones if that is what people want to do, but super hero teams with four or five or six men and one woman are starting to look odd to me.
I could cope with Idris Elba as Bond… we’ve already had at least one black Felix Leiter (I lose track of all the Leiters, I’m afraid), so why not Bond? Film-Bond is clearly several different people, anyway (Bond in the books is consistent in characterization. And also a complete git, but never mind). Pierce Brosnan’s version, especially, always struck me as quite clearly a different character who happened to have the same name, and Daniel Craig’s done nothing to change my mind on that score.
Yes, but transposed to a Gotham City that resembles South London with Ray Winstone as Harvey Dent, Kathy Burke as the Penguin and John Boyega as the Riddler.
Yeah, I’d watch the hell out of that. Especially if we have Gemma Chan as Catwoman…
The difficulty with casting Batman is that you need to find an actor who is excellent both as Batman and Bruce Wayne. Michael Keaton, for example, was outstanding as Wayne but not so hot in the mask.
Come to think of it, the only actor who has completely pulled off both roles so far is Adam West.
Steve Wright: It’s been common head-canon or fanon that James Bond is a title the British Secret Service put on a particular style of super-spy with particular training, and that every time one dies another one pops up to take his place as soon as possible.
@Steve Wright:
I like the idea of “James Bond” as an alias that accompanies the 007 designation, myself. You may be Danny Morris or Joe Chandler on your birth certificate, but when you become Agent 007, your working name is James Bond. If you die on the job, your replacement will take up that name and number. Not only does it divorce the person from the position, but it’s a dandy way to mess with other intelligence agencies.
A happy birthday to Mike Glyer, our genial host.
Regarding @The Phantom’s post: https://file770.com/?p=27570&cpage=2#comment-400374
It seems to me that the box-office failure of a single superhero film made by a fairly indifferent production company with a history of making poor quality films that *happened* to have replaced one of the historically-white characters with a black actor is the feeblest excuse imaginable to demand that no superhero movie made by anyone else ever again have a black actor playing a historically-white character.
Particularly given how many very successful superhero films have played with racial and gender expectations.
It sounds like the anti-woman hero reaction to the box-office failure of the appalling piece of drek that was the 2004 “Catwoman” movie, as if it were the gender of the lead actor that made the film flop and not the feeble script, the insulting premise, and the most ridiculous Straw Feminist since those old fake stories about bra-burning.
Happy birthday Mike!
ETA: Clearly, casting Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor & Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in a bunch of Marvel movies has resulted in them being complete flops. No, wait…
@Soon Lee: Yeah, but look at the tiny size of that display! Using ASCII, you’d only be able to get pron of one body part, which is fine for some, but not all (Jeepers. “Pron” is in spellcheck! Not pr0n, though).
I’m nominating the book version of Sandifer’s work. It covers a lot of stuff, all related to the field. I need to read Felicia Day’s book. She is undoubtedly a fan writing about fannish and SF stuff. Alexandra Erin is for sure in my Best Fan Writer — between “Scalzi is Not…” and SPRB, she did some wickedly funny stuff.
(6) Gunn is so right in that statement that he could not possibly be any more correct. Whoever he’s responding to has only seen the Marvel movies from Earth-666 or some other evil timeline.
(12) Thanks to John and Mike for making the husband LOL at this.
LETTERS TO TIPTREE is on sale today at Google Play for 70 cents. $0.70 American. Bought! Thanks for the heads-up, Lenora! 99 cents on Kindle and Nook. (Besides saving a whole 29c, I have credit at Google Play, so it was free. Also I like to encourage more and more platforms for ebook distribution.)
@KipW: heh. Me too.
@RedWombat: if Hollywood ever wises up and casts Isaiah Mustafa in a lead role, you and I can go together with our matching anime heart eyes (For the perplexed, he’s the Old Spice Guy). I always wish Idris Elba had more to do in the Thor movies, but he does nail every scene he’s in; I thought Heimdall was kinda lame till saw him as the character.
The first I ever remember of Firestorm was in TB&TB cartoon, so to me, the younger half has always been black!
Happy birthday, Mike, and many more!