If it’s not too late, allow me to recommend Rucka’s “The Hiketeia” as your starting point.  It’s an original graphic novel so not published as part of his run on the main book, but I consider it the beginning of his run, as well as introducing perfectly the themes of “Hellenic virtue in a modern world” that make his…

Cronenberg made M. Butterfly, a story of the story behind Madame Butterfly, the opera which Miss Saigon is a Vietnam War-set variation on.

Question to the community: would anyone find of genuine use an archive of the Disqus comments across AV Club history (which still exist, they just have different URLs now since the Kinjapocalypse)? 

This is based only on a handful of trips through the Bronx over the last decade plus, and an outsider’s perspective of the city...but could it be that it’s one of the only sizeable areas in NYC that still resembles the New York of the late twentieth century?

The greatness of the Cartmel era I have always thought was due to how the writing turned sharply towards the more wildly imaginative and cheerfully spaghetti-against-the-wall-throwing approach of the likes of 2000 AD and the other British comics/SF/fantasy upstarts of the mid-to-late eighties (who would go on to crucia…

Season 26 is very nearly Classic Who turning itself into New Who, sixteen years ahead of its time. Ace is the prototype for every single companion (and Doctor/companion relationship) that would come after her.

And I should add - I found it in the ‘Humor’ section, along with Garfield and Hi and Lois and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns- that was where all comics went back then.

I first read Watchmen, one chapter at a time, freeloading at Waldenbooks.

There’s been a steady MPAA-rated progression throughout the three seasons: homaging/riffing on/stealing from films from the Eighties rated G and PG, then PG-13 edging into R, and now, a boatload of the era’s R and ‘hard R’ action and horror flicks. The true big bad really is growing up!

This Hennessy dude is a straight up hack. 

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman.  Joe Simon co-created Captain America with Kirby.

Who would have guessed in those insufferable days that those two googooeyed schmucks would become two of the most talented, interesting actors of their generation?

Hey, that’s a Frank Miller cover for that issue!  He should be fresh off of his first Daredevil run right about then.

I was pretty damn surprised at the specificity of the last trailer’s talk (and overt metaphor) about ‘saving America’, bridging divides, believing in the worth of statehood and institutions, even setting a scene in, apparently, the White House. Combined with this “social strand” multiplayer narrative component, could…

The Expanse > Battlestar Galactica

I still can’t believe that after all these years and all these adaptations, they STILL don’t have the balls to film that ending.

I think the longest wordcount rant I ever vomited out in my many years at the AVC was an everlasting bilious gobstopper about how the Battle of Zion - just the goddamn Battle of Zion - is fucking awful and stupid: narratively, strategically, in technique, in worldbuilding, in everything.  I still hate it so much.

I see where you’re coming from: that pocketwatch example is famously ill-conceived, and I recall old SF short stories that were particularly smug about their neat causal loops. I recognize the discomfort of feeling that stepping outside the pressure between time and the unknown is somehow wrong - it’s the point where…

That’s not at all correct. That movie works in a perfect deterministic loop: no actions in the past (our present) have altered the future, but in fact have allowed it to happen. There is no paradox whatsoever, and in fact you could and should hold up The Terminator as a perfect example of “everything has always…