I'd seen it and was astonished at how entertaining and good it was. I HATE Cruise's smug face when he's being Tom Cruise, but he just damned good in most action flicks.

They loved it too!

I'll ask him about "Dead Presidents;" he's not allowed to read ALL the Deadpool stuff yet, of course, but he's almost 13, fer Chrissakes...he knows about bad words and cartoon violence.

Oh thank goodness -- I just got my mother to do online invitations for the open house she's having in two weeks. She didn't quite connect that it actually is just in two weeks, so was dithering about paper invites and whatever. So we've just sent 60 emails. Edit: I mean 72.

The violence in Dead Presidents is pretty broadly cartoon-ish, from what I remember. The basic storyline is that all the dead POTUSes are brought back from the dead, because comics. And Deadpool is brought in to stop them. So he has to re-kill them, which does mean violence. But IIRC it's very cartoon-ish, rather than grim and awful. I feel like it would be okay for a 13-year-old, but every kid (and parental guidelines for what they can read) is different.

And it's wickedly funny, riffing on all the presidents' various personality quirks and such.

Amazon pulls an author's self-published novel for having too many hyphens: [link]

I had a very weird dream last night, wherein I watched JD from Scrubs and his wife (not Elliot) and parents (not his parents from Scrubs, Liz Sheridan and Barney Martin, so Seinfeld's parents) go on winter vacation to Poland. They stayed in a beach tourist town so it was too cold to actually go to the beach, and mallard ducks were hovering around people like mosquitoes. Also, anthropomorphic bananas were an oppressed ethnic group in the area; I saw one playing saxaphone in a band.

Amazon pulls an author's self-published novel for having too many hyphens

BWAAHAHAHA!

Oh, he's read a lot of the Deadpool, and I am the last person to be a hard-core censor about reading material. But there's some Deadpool's that ARE way, WAY too sexual and it's visual, ya know?

Maybe that'll be another Hanukkah gift: I need two more, anyway. Thanks!

I disremember how many TPBs there are of the Dead Presidents series, but if you get them, borrow them from him and read them, because you'll crack up. (Note: former!chatty!co-worker did uncredited art on some of the issues, because he's BFFs with the artist, who was ridonkulously busy because of his other titles, so he farmed some of the art out to Chatty.)

Amazon pulls an author's self-published novel for having too many hyphens

Oh my.

Cold, wet, snowy morning. I can only think the people burbling excitedly about White Christmases didn't have to drive the freeway this morning.

shumash?

Heh. Shammes.