in the split between Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. This trend continued with The Hobgoblin, who was introduced in 1983 and whose identity is retconned more often than DC reboots its universe.

The nadir of this trope (and indeed, of Spider-Man) was the infamous Clone Saga, filled as it was with constant cutaways to figures mysterious, hooded, or shadowy, all apparently watching…and waiting! Kaine was teased that way for about 400 issues before the writers decided he was another Peter Parker clone; there was the Judas Traveller, Scrier, and a ton of others who I’m not sure they ever managed to pay off. Even Peter and Mary Jane’s missing baby remains a loose end (alternate futures notwithstanding), assuming she still exists after the reality-warping of Brand New Day.

My oneFebruary 26, late. Tonight's Academy Award fiasco, in which the shoo-in feel-good white people movie was announced as best picture, and it turned out they got the wrong card and the serious black people movie was best picture... that's the weirdest thing that's happened in America since 9/11, even weirder than the Red Sox breaking their curse during a full lunar eclipse.

I'm not even going to try to explain it rationally. It's best understood on a subverbal intuitive level. And I don't think it was any kind of conspiracy, at least not by humans. It was the Trickster breaking through the screen and then vanishing into irreconcilable happenstance. (This is how I write when I'm high.)

Because Warren Beatty was at the center of it, appearing to be making