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May 19, 2011 9:31 am This may well be the greatest Thanos moment in the history of ever.

And what happens to the Cosmic Cube when it falls? Does it shatter into a million billion pieces? Does it conk an old lady? Does it land in a comically oversized drink where it is confused with an ice cube?! These questions must be answered!

February 10, 2011 6:33 pm I LIKE IT!

October 11, 2010 1:46 pm

Thanks for th clarification about my statement, Wood! I was speaking about how it will and should help shops in general--which is what's best for ALL of us. The more obstacles removed from retailers' paths, the better. 

@odino1, @NawidA, @Notahiro: The impact for us will not be as great as will be for many other shops (Like Jason had said) as we are one of the stores who had previously qualified for Tuesday delivery. But, again, this is an industry issue and not about the minority of retailers who were already getting Tuesday delivery.

Regarding customers possibly receiving shipments earlier as a result of this change: unfortunately that will not happen. We strictly abide by Diamond's rules for release dates and are not permitted, and do not, send out shipments prior to the scheduled release date. So, so long as Wednesday remains the release day, shipments will not begin to leave until Wednesday.

May 25, 2009 3:47 pm

I just sent an e-mail to Ron, but I will post a summarized version here as well:

The bit about Cyclops's eyes being apetures to another dimension, where his optic blasts come from...that's not just Wikipedia gobbeldy goop, believe it or not. It actually comes from the 1983 edition of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe--so you have Mark Gruenwald to thank for that little tidbit.

According to the OHOTMU: "Cyclops's eyes are no longer the complex organic jelly that utilize the visible spectrum of light to see the world around it. Instead, they are interdimensional apetrures between this universe and another, non-Einsteinian unvierse, where physical laws as we know them do not pertain. ... Cyclops's mind has a particular psionic field that is attuned to the forces which maintain the apetures which have taken the place of his eyes. Because his mind's psionic field envelopes his body, it automatically shunts the other-dimensional particles back into their point of origin when they colide with his body. Thus, his body is protected from the effects of the particles, and even the then membrane of his eyelids are sufficient to block the emission of energy."

April 12, 2009 1:01 am

@chlop: I definitely don't think that those types of doubts are stupid or annoying, but that is another discussion that probably isn't appropriate here. That being said, I certainly know what you mean and, given the subject matter, there was certainly the danger of falling in to that trap of being preachy but I think that Peterson and Niccole were able to avoid that with ease.

While the issue of God not stopping the Holocaust, Pol Pot, et al, is certainly brought up and lends at least some sort of a serious tone, I mostly read them as plot devices to get Jesus to go back in time to fight Nazis or Pol Pot. The thing to remember about this book is that, first and foremost, it's a comedy. The creators may want you to be given pause to think at moments, but the primary goal is to make you laugh.