I like Aguirre-Sacasa's plays, but I can't think of a single reason for him to rewrite the book. Little Shop is a perfect machine of a musical— it doesn't need fixing.

Fresca: never not a perfect punch line.

Oh thank God— it's seriously, actually, really Joss. For the most part, the trailers never showed it.

A couple years ago, Neil Genzlinger trashed an off-bway musical I co-wrote. I've simply decided to attribute his idiot generalizations and appalling taste to his bitterness over being a third-string critic for so long.

Or Wolverine.

I kinda like Grimm— but Nick's an absolute zero. Even Pilates Wolf, who's by far the best part of the show, is more a collection of quirks than a consistent character yet. That said, if they put Nick through the wringer and bring on more PW, I'll stick around.

All true. I'm not sure that Milo Manara's Story of O adaptation deserves the same level of worship as Watchmen, but I certainly worshipped it frequently in my teens.

Well— in all fairness, I never said it was a perfect comic— just that it may be the most perfect comic, perfection being an impossible standard.

I can't imagine that Moore would be surprised— this is the kind of thing that made him wash his hands of mainstream comics and hollywood in general. The only surprise is that it took DC this long.

now THAT is a shirt. He looks like he's in an Edwardian version of Office Space.

this actually dispels some of my skepticism— and the sequence with Snowy is great.

I don't think we're done with Marjorie. Lots of unanswered questions there.

Actual footage of lampreys finding out that there are three more books in A Song of Ice and Fire. "Until that fat bastard is done with those goddamn tomes," said one toothy parasite, "no lamprey is safe."

With all the Cyvasse in ASOIAF, one would think that an "official" version woulds be a natural...

"Smurfs will have bigger legs than cowboys."

Harry Potter an improvement over the Sword and the Stone? No— no, no, no, every cell in my body is writhing in agony at the suggestion. I'll grant that Rowling's world is appealing— but no more appealing or imaginative than White's anarchic and anachronistic (pre-)Arthurian England. And the ants? The geese? They…

And, like Famous Amos, he becomes a famous advocate for adult literacy education.

Obviously, "Hodor" means "Tell me again about the rabbits, George..."

I've got the book in audio and print; I listen to the one in the car and transfer to the other once I've parked. Wilson clearly owes a lot to World War Z in terms of structure— this almost feels like a homage— but the book is exciting and gives you the same "my god— they're everywhere" feeling that you get from the…

MTG— thanks for the thoughtful response. You and I are on the same page here, I think— so, just for the purposes of clarification—