canofhumdingers said:

ATMachine said:

Yeah, it's interesting to see that 1970s-era Marvel put word balloons on their covers--almost as if prospective buyers actually wanted to read the dialogue inside.

Now that we have digital coloring in all the hues of the rainbow, the text balloons are gone. Imagine that.

Have you read any comics in recent years? The ones I read still have text boxes and word balloons...

Most people would correctly guess the implicit qualifier to that last sentence: I was only talking about the covers of modern comic books that point.

"There are some mistakes it takes a Ph.D to make."

“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”

'Well that's splendid,' said Frodo, 'now we all have Elvish names, but what is yours, dad?'

'Well, that's rather peculiar,' said Sam, 'for in the Elvish part, if you must know, what the King says is Master Perhail who should rather be called Panthail, and that means, I believe, "Master Samwise who ought to be called Fullwise". So now you know what the King thinks of your dad you'll maybe give more heed to what he says.'

'And ask him lots more questions,' said Frodo.

'Well that's splendid,' said Frodo, 'now we all have Elvish names, but what is yours, dad?'

'Well, that's rather peculiar,' said Sam, 'for in the Elvish part, if you must know, what the King says is Master Perhail who should rather be called Lanhail, and that means, I believe, "Samwise or Halfwise who should rather be called Plain-wise". So now you know what the King thinks of your dad you'll maybe give more heed to what he says.'

'And ask him lots more questions,' said Frodo.