That might just make my job too easy!

I'm Agent of Nothing. I'm a technical writer and recovering philosopher from Seattle. I'm a sucker for long-form narrative, any kind of metal, and all sorts of genre fiction. I dislike inter-fandom rivalry (liking x does not preclude also liking y). My free time is spent with my wife and cat, playing games, reading…

Y'know, I almost feel sorry for JJ. Taking the Star Wars job basically meant that, instead of having to deal with just the studio heads and production staff providing notes, he has millions of backseat drivers on the internet telling him how to do his job, plus another million or so howling for his head before anybody…

HYDRA is my best guess, too.

One of the central conceits of the post-Miller Batman fiction has always been that super-criminals emerged in Gotham in response to the appearance of Batman, so really, in a pre-Batman Gotham, all you would have is mostly powerful organized crime. At that point, one has to wonder why you need the Batman license to…

To be fair, you set quite a challenge for yourself, given that pretty much every Jedi we ever meet in the Star Wars universe is pretty much a colossal fuck-up. It's almost like taking infant children from their parents and raising them in an insanely cloistered environment, and then giving them access to the most…

BEANING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMNED HONEY!

Apparently, Oduro has an endorsement deal with area Papa John's franchises, so it makes sense. I'm not kidding about this.

The reason I connect the Troll Hunter with NBM is that the attitude towards trolls is closer to that of Norwegian Black Metal than it is to the attitudes expressed in fairy tales.

Well-said!

I am not suggesting that the film-makers take it as far as Vikernes (who is basically a neo-Nazi lunatic), but in choosing to make a film about the Norwegian troll myths, they tapped into the same cultural roots that many of the Trve Kvlt guys draw from.

A good place to jump in would be the documentary "Until the Light Takes Us."

SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!

NEESON. SEASON.

As a life-long Sasquatchifile, I would watch the HELL out of that film. Note: I don't believe in the existence of Sasquatch, but I would be thrilled to discover that it exists.

Oh man. The original was actually a cleverly-disguised black metal manifesto. I'm not sure how well that translates to an American perspective. I guess I would rather see the original get a wider re-release.

They have created a monster which will devour us all. WHAT DOES THE SECURITY COUNCIL SAY ABOUT THIS, PUTIN!?!?

There's something on the wing...OF THE SPACESHIP...I SAW IT!

Doom metal has undergone something of a resurgence of late in Scandinavia, as this video illustrates. Other practitioners to examine include Grand Magus and Spiritual Beggars, both of which eschew massive blast-beat drumming in favor of thick, meaty riffs and cleaner vocals.

And that, dear children, is how you get pink eye, or conjunctivitis, as it is properly known.