I could list pages of recs if you wanted it, but I don't want to dwarf you with too much material thrown at you at once. If I had to recommend one particular point though, I would say start reading around the beginning of the Rebirth era, with Peter Tomasi's run on Superman (first trade here) and Dan Jurgens' Action Comics (first trade here). If you want to read a small prequel on some of the events leading to this story, you can find that in the mini-series Superman: Lois & Clark, however that's not entirely necessary to understand the story. Also, it helps to have at least a brief understanding of the Death of Superman story-arc, and the single-issue story What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way? (Action Comics #775).

This era of Superman comics is fairly recent, and focuses on the new status quo of Superman as a husband to Lois Lane and a father to their ten-year-old son Jonathon. It finds new ways to challenge Superman physically and emotionally without getting away from his core character.

I loved it too! I highly recommend checking out the book John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood. Available on Kindle for free.

The author basically does a week by week analysis of the film's marketing campaign up to the release date to try and analyze/understand what went wrong to make this movie such a colossal flop. Super interesting!

If you are really interested in how a very rational and amoral AI would act in a romantic relationship with a human, you should check out the novel Crystal Society.

There is a free audio book of it here.

I personally would recommend you pick up the comic from issue one. With compendium 1 and read the entire series.

The story is different enough that you will still be surprised by a lot of the story. Additional, Kirkman writes many of his surprises after a page turn, so you never see it coming.

I have reread the series from issue one twice now, I have single issues since 78 I think, picked up the earlier issues via compendiums.

90-110 is an incredible run with the introduction of the saviors and Negan. Issue #161 just came out on Wednesday and the story telling is still so strong.

You should check out Who Is the Black Panther? if that interests you (https://www.amazon.com/Black-Panther-Vol-Who/dp/0785120483).
It's a modern retelling of Black Panther's origin, with the US playing a large antagonistic role in it.

This one!

A Game of Thrones: The Board Game 2nd Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1589947207/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Amo6AbYFFFD46

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I actually have the Kindle version of it on my device. I've got all Crichton novels. I've just never got around to reading it for some stupid reason.

> Semantics.

The person who directed the prequels could have taken 2 seconds to listen to what Luke says.

And you wouldn't say "The World War" - you say "World Wars" or "WW I/II."

>It is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Whether or not he ever used one doesn't change that fact. Darth Vader also uses a lightsaber despite being a Sith.

The Emperor mockingly calls it a Jedi weapon.

And your point about Darth Vader makes my case stronger - the Emperor has no respect for Vader.

It would have been cool to see Yoda vs. The Emperor go at it like Voldermort vs. Dumbledore but Lucas is too stupid and too childish so he had to have Yoda and the Emperor fight with lightsabers like they were Sonic the Hedgehog.

(Funnily enough I don't consider Yoda using the lightsaber as a contradiction - but Palpatine using it IS a contradiction)

>It's not like Obi-Wan ever had a very healthy relationship with the truth.

This is what retconning is - Obi-Wan being turned into a liar.

But he never said he lied about that and Owen Lars even implies in ANH what Obi-Wan said was true.

>Maybe because he didn't want it going to his head like it did with Anakin?

Or because it doesn't exist and it's full of shit?

>Yoda trained him as a youngling.

This is Lucas' dumb ass excuse when he realized he fucked up and it was enough to satiate the idiots.

Problem: Obi-Wan says Yoda was "the Jedi master who instructed me." Clearly stated he was his only master.

>"The Jedi who trained me when I was a kid, before I was assigned a new master who died, after which Yoda continued playing the role of my mentor." Again, semantics.

I think an easier thing would be for Lucas to spend 2 hours to actually watch The Empire Strikes Back and to build from there. But nah, if he did that, that means he wouldn't get to put all the cool CGI bullshit and toy commercials in the movies! He may actually have to have them connect with each other! After all, if he watched The Empire Strikes Back then HE'D KNOW BOBA FETT ISN'T A CLONE OF A DUDE WITH A KIWI ACCENT!

But if Lucas knew and respected that then how else would he be able to sell Jango Fett merchandise?

Who cares about silly things like making sure the continuity with The Empire Strikes Back works? We got GameCube games to sell baby!

>Once again, you fail to grasp what the actual discussion is about. I'll say it once more: I DON'T GIVE A SINGLE FUCK WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE PREQUELS. It has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING.

A movie being bad doesn't mean it's not canon.

Leia being Luke's sister was the dumbest thing ever, but it doesn't contradict anything.

>That would be called an homage,

HOMAGE TO STORMTROOPERS!

Bingo!

Now you're finally starting to get it.

See? The Apprentice is learning. Soon you will have a full mastery of the obvious!

>There are various motivations for applying retroactive continuity, including:

>To accommodate desired aspects of sequels or derivative works which would otherwise be ruled out;
>To correct and overcome errors or problems identified in the prior work since its publication;
>To change how the prior work should be interpreted;
>To match reality, when assumptions or projections of the future are later proven wrong.[Note 1]

To accommodate desired aspects of sequels

To accommodate desired aspects of SEQUELS

>Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short,[1][2] is a literary device in which established facts in a fictional work are adjusted, ignored or contradicted by a subsequently published work otherwise intended to maintain continuity with the former

Key sentence: INTENDED TO MAINTAIN CONTINUITY. The Prequels are NOT trying to maintain continuity!!!!! They completely contradict it!!!!!

>Retcons do not contradict previously established facts but instead fill in missing background details, usually to support current plot points.

>This is a common practice in horror films, which may end with the death of a monster that goes on to appear in one or more sequels

SEQUELS!!!!!!!

tauerland BTFO by his own source!

Hell, your own source says what Lucas was doing WASN'T retconning!

>Retconning also differs from direct revision. For example, when George Lucas re-edited the original Star Wars trilogy, he made changes directly to the source material, rather than introducing new source material that contradicted the contents of previous material.

LMAO!!!!!!!