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that is really weird. Was it a chain, like Tower or something? Who the hell opens presents, eats an early dinner with relatives they barely know, then decides they need the new Ralph Tresvant compact disc?

Don't be absurd—-Monopoly isn't fun!

I get a lot of erections

I'm glad there's still some of this going on. This place really has gotten too nice

The first time I saw the trailer for this, I thought it had to be a joke. Afterward, when it finally became clear that it was for real, I was all, "the fuuuuuck??"

He asked me, he asked me!

who needs secretaries? Two words: unpaid internships.

how many dicks is that?

@baramos, plus he's got, like, spooky rings and doesn't he also have a wand or staff or at least a walking stick?

I was going to make a joke about how wearing a goatee makes you look like you're stuck in the mid 90's. Then I realized I've been rocking the "short hair, slightly tousled in the front" look since at least 1997, and wept

It's weird how just imagining Jar Jar's voice annoys me

I thought it was pretty funny. Plus, it really doesn't depend on a drowned child to be funny, since no child was drowned.

I broke my finger clicking on this interview as soon as I saw it, eager to read the many lamentations I knew would result

A few weeks ago, I heard an interview with Harry Connick Jr. on the CBC radio show Q. Somehow, Snooki came up, and man old Harry Connick went off on her, repeatedly asking, "what does she *do*??" and basically saying she was a waste of flesh. Then, at the end of the interview, he backpedaled, sounding guilty.

I remember enjoying Hitman back when. Not sure if my tastes have changed, or if Ennis wrote differently back then.

sorry, I need to turn down the sensitivity on my sarcasm-meter!

oh, a wiseguy eh?

I'm glad you enjoyed Ennis' Punisher, but man I couldn't stand it. Found it facile and trying to hard to be edgy. Then again, that's my problem with Ennis in general. I couldn't even get into his heavily lauded Preacher, despite Steve Dillon's excellent artwork (that guy really is something.)

What happened with that? Did it just suck?

I'd say that if you don't like byzantine plot threads and assorted other stupid stuff, you're right to avoid superhero comics. You have to  enjoy those things in some semi-masochistic way in order to enjoy reading these stories. Not to get all guy-writing-a-college-paper-y, but I always think of these characters as