Ooh, a comic book about representation issues in popular media, aka "The Oliver Sava Signal." (I kid, I kid.)

First or last, capitalized or not, "Hydrox" is and always will be a terrible name for a foodstuff.

Hey, you've got Maurice LaMarche, you're doing a War of the Worlds riff, it's not like you're not going to have him do the Orson Welles bit. But yeah, let's take a moment to realize how stacked Hey Arnold's adult voice cast is. Catalanetta, MacNeille, LaMarche, Soucie, and the list goes on. I'd like to have been a fly…

His science was too tight for human consumption.

Space blessings upon the anniversary of your expulsion from the womb!

And have the gang's members all wear shirts with giant Rs on them, just to rub it in.

I don't know, Lila would have to fight Rhonda for that title (metaphorically), and the young Ms. Wellington-Lloyd would be a far more troublesome opponent in the social arena than Helga. As I recall, the pitch for The Patakis suggested that Helga and Lila would have become genuine friends by their teen years, and that…

Criminy, I'd forgotten that Lila and Big Patty debuted in the same episode. But in hindsight it's obvious why: Helga needed a formidable foil, someone she couldn't easily manipulate or intimidate, and who had more personality than her usual enemy, the cruel vicissitudes of an indifferent universe. Lila and Patty each…

And my favorite Flash-with-Luthor's-brain (also Justice League).

"Longest Monday" is the standout here, as the show uses the structure of a horror movie — with the fifth-graders as the monsters and being thrown in the trash as substitute for getting killed — to comment on hazing and real-life cycles of violence and abuse. This kind of thing happens all the time in institutions of…

Yes you can! They might get their asses kicked in the process, but then again they might not!

I much preferred the historical city-building games: Pharaoh, Caesar, Zeus. Especially Zeus, which incorporated Greek mythology into the gameplay. You could build special housing for legendary heroes like Heracles or Theseus, and once you completed a checklist of various goods and achievement, the hero would come live…

Tell Butcher Pete I hate him.

No, see, because the title of the original… oh, forget it. Sam, play something snappy.

It really is a striking divide between regular comics features and comics-related Newswires, isn't it? It shouldn't be that surprising, given that the default reaction to almost any Newswire subject seems to be vicious sneering, but it's still disheartening.

"Arnold's Thanksgiving" is really the only time Simmons's sexuality comes close to being directly addressed, but his karaoke outfit in "Principal Simmons" might be considered a hint.

I've just about come to the end of my third playthrough of Psychonauts. I just need to round up the remaining collectibles, rescue Mr. Pokeylopes, and make it through the Meat Circus. I almost hate to finish it, though, it's such a charming world. Still super hyped for the sequel, even if it's not going to be ready…

Ah, Mr. Simmons. Another case of a seemingly one-note character revealing hidden depth down the line. He and Arnold have a lot in common, with the shared tendency for their cherished ideals to crash headlong into cruel reality, as well as the wherewithal to keep going until reality bends just a bit for them. And of…

No, just paraphrasing Peridot.

Ha!