"Bare hands" makes it sound scary, but literally anything else would have been way scarier.

Wow! Okay.
Wow.

they got thrown out of Europe and Britain for good reason, unfortunately Americans still live with this legacy.
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." H.L. Mencken

I'm going to guess the reasoning is the same as Netflix constantly switching out the thumbnail of shows and movies. It makes your brain go "Oh, a new thing" for a second. We're very good at filtering out things we've seen before.
But I'm not so sure what works for clicks is gonna work in book stores

This is masterpiece. Holy sh*t, it's so good!

"Dad, bullets can't kill you. You've just had a suboptimal diet."

Turns out any diet that does not include the mythical Fountain of Youth is suboptimal.

Genius 👌
Fully worth the wait.

Ah, the Isle Of Man flag.

By which he means "we've got so much AI slop coming your way you'd better get used to the taste"

It's unclear from the headline if it's the man or the family having the best thanksgiving.
Both? Probably both.

"I know we've been unsuccessfully trying to tell concenting adults what their relationships need to be since forever, but I really feel this time it's gonna work."

I think as a Hollywood rule love interests need to be conventionally attractive. And the greater spectrum of acceptable hotness for men allows for a lot more monsterous traits. For the same reason female leads are rarely buff or scarred even if it would fit the character.
It sucks, really.

I mean, the male monsters in the examples are about as conventionally hot as a monster can be.
Nobody's falling for a cave troll.

That is a cool tank.
I hope better days are on their way.