It’s a bullshit rule anyway. Just some 17th-century grammarians deciding that English needs to be like Latin. Feel free to arbitrarily split any infinitive you wish to.
Sure, the John Allison we’ve known for lo! these many years has done comics about adolescent mystery-solvers, wacky office mates, red-haired super-women (Shelley & Erin, I’m looking at you), green fish-men, and not so evil Satanists, but underneath it all, he’s Jack Kirby.
Tom is a poet.
So the rules don’t apply.
It’s a bullshit rule anyway. Just some 17th-century grammarians deciding that English needs to be like Latin. Feel free to arbitrarily split any infinitive you wish to.
In the Name of all that is Holy!
Are you trying to destroy us all?!
To *brutally* destroy us all, I think.
I gather that Brian isn’t a Star Trek fan.
To boldly split infinitives where no infinitive has been split before!
The rule is from Latin anyway.
Okay, Tom’s starting to win me over.
But you totally can split infinitives
Yes. But it is not to lightly be done.
Okay, but what about “To be smacked brutally down”?
Ooh no I can’t order my modifiers!!
Brutally, To Be Smacked Down
Waiting, Human Race, Upstart
Magnificent Toys For All:
Force Majeure, Plague, Famine
Anyway, enough remix poetry, more over-sized monster battling
Force Majeure is the name of the French robot.
Sure, the John Allison we’ve known for lo! these many years has done comics about adolescent mystery-solvers, wacky office mates, red-haired super-women (Shelley & Erin, I’m looking at you), green fish-men, and not so evil Satanists, but underneath it all, he’s Jack Kirby.
Ha! The very first thing I thought when I set eyes on this page today was, “This likes like Jack Kirby drew it!”
Needs more Kirby Krackle.
This looks like Jack Kirby drew it.
Got so excited I couldn’t type write. 😉
For the record, I’d LOVE it if the whole story was like this. But I’m sure I’ll love it, anyway.
“Just imagine if it were.” Please use the subjunctive tense. ????
No time for grammarian silliness during a battle for the planet.
The pilot needs total concentration during the fight.
so SHUT UP CONTROL!