lately when i’m bored, i’ve been reading bios of comic book heros at marvel directory; it’s cheaper than spending $3/issue for 200 issues just to find out what happened to a particular hero (and never reading them again…oops). i’ve come to realize that there’s a huge difference in the magnitude of implausability from when i was a kid to now. oh, you have a cute digimon which digivolves into a 20ft monster? that’s cool. you know in my time a mutant from some millenia in the future time-travelled and warped across parallel dimensions to defeat some omnipotent celestial being (which had a nasty habit of destroying all reality on a whim) with his psionic powers and ability to reshape energy or something like that. natch.