In Media Res (Book 1), Canto I, "The Song of Fire," Page 14

Bubbles on Aug. 5, 2006

Two lessons from this comic. First, get fire insurance.

Second, no matter what action movies might tell you, and no matter how cool you are, it is almost always a really, really bad idea to run alone into a whole bunch of bad guys.

Of course, it's a lot worse if you're one of the X-Men from the early comics, because then your defeat is overly talkative AND humiliating.