Woo hoo! That's great! Way to go!

Truly, it was the purest respect for Wonder Woman's past you can display: getting her tied up somehow.

Clayface as the Zoidberg of the Bat-family is too good an idea and I want it to happen right now.

Do buy it! Buy all the comics! Dip into your savings! Mortgage your house! College? Who needs it? Bwahahahahaha!

I'm avoiding Civil War II and everything about it, as I usually do crossovers, so the only Marvel book I picked up was, surprise, Howard the Duck. I've been running hot and cold on Zdarsky's take on Howard, and his style of humor dips into mean-spiritedness more than I'd like (particularly when Spider-Man is…

I believe the origin is herein:

Woohoo, E3 livechats! Sassy dorks, ASSEMBLE!

I expect scathing reviews of onstage attire! Scathing!

This Week in the Avenger: I've just started playing XCOM 2, and it's a struggle. Not the gameplay itself, but just getting the game to run in the first place. For whatever reason, it has a hell of a time playing on my laptop. I've turned down the graphics settings to compensate, so it's playable, but still rough.…

They can't have been that surprised that a protagonist named, essentially, Besty McBest was the most popular character.

You got it! If they'll listen to anyone, it's some guy who worked for a couple of days at their booth at a comics convention, right?

I had to look that up, but: yes, basically, but with AAA production values and a more pronounced ironic disconnect between the subject matter and the presentation. And I want it announced with a full-blown musical number, onstage at E3, with backup dancers.

One of the Ratchet & Clank games also used this idea for a brief level in which you play through one of Captain Quark's imagined adventures, while he narrates to the tune of "Toreador" from Carmen.

I have not. Is it similar to what I'm describing?

I want a musical game. Not a music game, a musical. I want a regular video game of any genre — RPG, FPS, hack-and-slash, whatever — that's completely sung-through like an opera. I have no idea how you'd manage it, but it would be the greatest thing ever. How much more fun would Mass Effect's endless dialogue wheels be…

Well, if you're a writer/artist like Jeff Smith or the late Darwyn Cooke, you could do it like that. But for the most part, a script is written first, a bit like a screenplay. You (the writer) picture in your head what you want to happen and how you want the page to look, and write down a description. The trick is to…

I'm about two-thirds of the way through Moby-Dick. Whaling sounds goddamn disgusting, but the way Melville writes, he could make crawling through a sewer seem like a religious experience. I also enjoy the anti-Transcendentalist subtext (i.e. "Nature will fuck you up without blinking an eye, Harvard boy").

I'm beginning the process of interviewing for an awesome job that I really want! Baby steps so far: yesterday I talked briefly with the HR rep, and if all goes well I should be talking to a manager next week or so. So I'm going to be nervous and anxious basically nonstop for a few weeks, but maybe it'll be worth it!

Argh, I hate when that happens. They invited you to come talk to them, the least they could do is acknowledge your existence, even if they decide not to hire you.

I finished another comic book script. Feels good to exercise that muscle again. Now I just have to figure out what happens in the next one. I'm thinking… pirates.