It's a collection of more than 100 of the weirdest, the wildest, and the most underrated supervillains in comic book history, and is the successor to the book The League of Regrettable Superheroes which did the same thing for the good guys. And as I mentioned, I've been writing the blog Gone and Forgotten for 20 years this year.
Very young guy, just got out of design school. And Regrettable Superheroes was the very first thing he designed. So I'm super proud of him.
The no regrets tattoo-- Yeah. Great idea or regrettable ? It's pretty-- What's the relevation on that one?
Alors tant mieux, c'est à dire qu’il y a une prise de conscience. Ce qui est regrettable c'est que ça a pris quarante ans et ce qui est regrettable c'est que ça met encore beaucoup de temps à être mis en oeuvre parce qu'en fait, il faut attendre encore beaucoup plus de scandales, ceux qui sont déjà survenus et qui n'ont pas encore été révélés
of-- even the United States to some degree-- into forms of nationalism that those of us who believe in a kind of liberal, multicultural worldview find rather regrettable . India remains the swing superpower.
while being butchered Elizabeth knew at once what it was and reached for her ankle dagger most expeditiously she turned blade at the ready and was met with the regrettable VIS of three unmentionables their arms outstretched and mouths a gape the closest seemed freshly dead his burial suit not yet discolored his eyes not yet dust he lumbered toward Elizabeth at an impressive pace and when he was but an arms length from her she plunged the
And I have, probably out of the 20 years, taken about seven years off. When I first hear the term regrettable here, it just sounds like something that somebody wishes they hadn't done.
And I have, probably out of the 20 years, taken about seven years off. What do you mean by Regrettable Supervillains?
70 pence in every 100 pounds the nation earns is not very much. I think it's very regrettable that that didn't happen.
Now that didn't come for free. And the price was exacted one regrettable Saturday day when he was told that if he didn't pick up a lead pipe and hit a child that looked a lot like him, a member of a rival gang, that he himself would be the one beaten.
And they offered me a two-day boot camp pass, so I could train with the Mounties for two days. And I got a very regrettable haircut. I got a regulation Mountie mustache.
My name is Jon Morris. I'm the author of The Legion of Regrettable Supervillain. It's a collection of more than 100 of the weirdest, the wildest, and the most underrated supervillains in comic book history, and is the successor to the book The League
Oh, hey. Hi. So it looks like a lot of the material you look at is from the golden age or earlier. Do you have-- who's your most favorite recent regrettable supervillain, and superhero, actually? I don't know if you still read comics regularly.
And it's one of the best superhero comics I've ever read. So now I couldn't think of a regrettable one there, but-- oh, and Squirrel Girl who was actually in the first book, and is now the most popular superhero at Marvel.
And they do contribute to increased rates of cancer, infertility, neurological impairments. So another problem is what we call the regrettable substitution problem. If after a lot of work, a chemical is regulated, the substitute is often the chemical cousin.
But no one had ever dared challenge him with a fuck you before. Even if it had escaped my mouth by regrettable accident, I was a dead man and everybody knew it. Certainly was nice of him to suggest I had friends though.
lesson and one of the questions again, I think it's an open question, his attitude has been how one would engineer this but I think the most regrettable thing that; and I think Mark would agree with this; that we've seen in the course of doing this for 20 years is that
Think: those warbonnets at Coachella. The sports mascots. And the regrettable Halloween costumes. Compared to all-out identity theft, cultural appropriation can feel kinda subtle.
It was just an amazing part. In fact, that was the most regrettable thing to ever happen to our group.
It was just an amazing part. what do you call it, regrettable thing.
It was just an amazing part. But like I said, it's the most regrettable part of the Beach Boys experiences is the intrusion of drugs upon on our family.
full view I mean there were steak dinners and champagne nights and there was a new IPO every day people were so excited and I made the regrettable error of going down to the liford Key Club and meeting with my uncle and asking him what tech STS are you
I don't know woodchucks, what lives in the ground? And some people say, "That's regrettable . I don't care that much." Some people say, "I care enough to order something else." But my only point is you're always going to be largely ignorant. And that's something
I think the steel man of their argument would be Russia has or believes it has a sphere of influence and it is regrettable ,
Not only did Jon score an appearance on This American Life to discuss what makes a superhero fail to catch the popular imagination, but it also provided the foundation for his first book, The League of Regrettable Superheroes, published by Quirk Books of Philadelphia. And that led to the book he's here to discuss today, The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains.
but it also provided the foundation for his first book, The League of Regrettable Superheroes, published by Quirk Books of Philadelphia. And that led to the book he's here to discuss today, The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains. Please join me in giving Jon a warm welcome.
And I have, probably out of the 20 years, taken about seven years off. Some villains probably made it, even though they had the chance to be regrettable .
Of course I had known that the 1964 World's Fair as being kind of a component of "Tomorrowland," a somewhat regrettable movie, and in a more minor way
Those people, while they do many terrible things that are regrettable , they have this sort of wonderful organizing influence on the universes
besides the obvious complexity of software? Some trends they see as regrettable or something to be avoided and?
At which point, COVID will have caused great suffering, which is sad and regrettable .
In your episode of This American Life, you had something where-- there's another piece in there where John Hodgman ask people about whether they'd rather the power of visibility or flight. In that sphere, could you give us two regrettable superhero/villain powers to choose between? I very much will, but I really want to ask everybody in the crowd.
steady until about the 1970s. More than four decades ago, we began this, the deliberate and regrettable march toward caging more than 1.5 million people across the United States.
I, then, continued with that story to stick to that story, which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
that would be illegal if they were dogs or cats; environmental destruction is built into the business model. A company like Smithfield had 7,000 violations of the Clean Water Act in one year. So if they'd had 10 we would say, "That's regrettable ." If they'd had 100 we would say, "Someone needs to keep a better eye on this company." But 7,000 starts to seem like it's on purpose; like it's as much as they can get away with. And as it turns out they can get away with
I wanted to know, you know, the internal protocols, how the, you know, the firmware was put together, so I made a very stupid and regrettable decision, I decided to go after the source code for