story moments that have given me pleasure recently

Just a couple of quick things, while I work on my extremely non-definitive post about how to not tell readers things (as discussed in the comments to my last post).

1) It pleases me so much that the nerdy guy who refuses, with a gun to his head, to launch the evil helicarriers in the second Captain America movie is the same nerdy guy — or at least he’s played by the same actor (Aaron Himelstein) — who we see piloting the rescue helicarrier in Age of Ultron. This is one of my favorite things in Ultron (though admittedly that isn’t saying much).

2) Howard the Duck. In recent issues of his comic book, Howard has been trying to be a noir-type private detective, which is proving to be challenging because of his lack of customer service skills, his dubious detective skills, and the fact that he’s a duck. But in a recent issue, amid all the superhero (and alien and dinosaur) adventures in his life, he’s finally reunited with his long-time human best friend Beverly Switzler.

And then, after all that, Howard arrives back at his office to meet his newest client: Lea Thompson. The actress who played Beverly Switzler in the notorious box office bomb, Howard the Duck.

So, yes, that Lea Thompson. As it says on the cover of the current issue, “yeah we barely believe it either.”

That’s the sort of thing you can do when your book has already been canceled anyway. 🙂

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