Sucrose is a nickname fans came up with for Rebecca Sugar, since it's the chemical name for sugar and all. And "'Pen" is Pendleton Ward.

Mr. Mayor, if you want to know who the real vampire is, look in the mirror!

I've never really had occasion to vituperously insult someone to their face like that, but if I ever do I'm happy to have that one in my back pocket.

Awesome. Karen Berger is the most revered editor in comics for a reason, so it's gratifying to see her get back to work. Also, she and her husband guest-lectured for a class I took in grad school and I got to meet her, so I may be a bit biased in my estimation here. That ruled.

Alasdair Wilkins, not to exaggerate, but you are the greatest hero in AV Club history. May the wormholes rise to meet you and the solar wind be at your back.

Or stolen by Carmen Sandiego.

Your math checks out, but I'm arbitrarily starting my timeline with when he began being regularly caricatured in Doonesbury.

You take that back!

Lordy, does it ever.

I've had that same issue with gratuitous swearing in other works, Deadpool for instance. It's odd when people take an R rating as a mandate. Cussing in particular stands out because, I think, it's easier to do artlessly. Violence, even the most gruesome and meaningless, takes time and effort to put onscreen, but…

Sounds like one of those sci-fi stories that's more interesting as a mini-vacation to an entertainingly wacky universe than it is as a narrative. There's a lot of those.

Yeah, I spent a lot of time with Ohya in my first game just because I find her entertaining, but there wasn't a lot of benefit to that relationship otherwise.

You shut up about Japanese Milhouse! I maxed out his link the first time around and was glad I did. Those EXP bonuses are vital! Hell, I might just max it out again this time, just to spite everyone. Everything's coming up Milhouse!

Discord group, you say?

As opposed to…?

I'm making a conscious effort to stick up for Ryuji when given the chance in dialogue options in my current playthrough. The poor guy gets belittled and insulted so much and doesn't deserve even a quarter of it.

I for one fully support the use of Plunkbat over all other possible abbreviations.

This Week in the Metaverse: I've launched into my New Game+ playthrough of Persona 5, and my main plan is to see stuff I didn't the first time around. I've made an informal rule to always choose to spend time with a person whose social link I didn't max out the first time around, so as to make sure I don't end up…

Ah ah ah, you didn't explicitly wish for me to upvote you. I will, however, arbitrarily kill someone close to you, because otherwise this would be more of a grammar exercise than a horror movie.

One shudders to thing what she'd do when he goes on to wish to be a baller.