Oh shit, the final episode's title is "Desert Bus."

@avclub-6258e285eeb51b21d01ffe9cb9f9c1d1:disqus  I will take any excuse to link to the greatest yelling thread this site has ever seen: http://www.avclub.com/artic… , first comment and down.

You know, some of us already made the Magorium/White connection and we didn't get no Great Job, Internet out of it: http://www.avclub.com/artic… .
EDIT: Although to be fair, the Lear dysphoria connection eluded me.

Can't you read? It won't be straight banging, but 'hobnobbing."

All of your rationalizations make sense for adapting Gotham Central to a TV show. "Created by Mentalist showrunner Bruno Heller" implies no such adaptation is forthcoming.

Yeah, joining in the "so why the hell not just make Gotham Central?" brigade. You puds, why the hell not just make Gotham Central?

Somewhere in Canada, Ryan North is getting a huge boner and he doesn't know why.

The multiple Butthole instances in the movie are great. Don't the credits close out to "Strangers Die Every Day?" I thought that was an interesting ominous touch, especially after the exuberance of the final sequence.

A 50-year-old script? Was it originally called "Two Dollars and 39 Cents" and adjusted for inflation?

See also Chet in Kicking and Screaming.

I'm not the hugest fan of street weirdos either but the ones in Linklater movies, like this and in Waking Life, are fun even when they're full of shit. Mike says:

I think the only pre-explanation is "It's disjointed and has a lot of short stories." Taken on their own, each individual scene/story is easy to follow.

"(Favorites most likely include the crazily intense woman, played by
Teresa Taylor, attempting to sell her friends a genuine Madonna pap
smear—Madonna became the movie’s go-to mascot and is still on the cover
of the Criterion release, which just received a Blu-ray upgrade.)"

David Mitchell's Ghostwritten also passes the baton, I prefer it to the symmetrical structure of Cloud Atlas.

Selina's Big Score is so, so good, reading it out of nothing more than a "hey! This Darwyn Cooke guy is supposed to be pretty good" and becoming happier by the page was such a treat. Strongly recommended, and it's a great back door to Cooke's Parker adaptations.

The Delano stuff I've read can get real weird and I think far more British than Ennis, who definitely has a fair amount of then-contemporary stuff kicking around his comic too (not complaining about this by the way, I like it). And I don't think his run is as cohesive as Ennis'. But it's supposed to be slippery, I…

What @avclub-9b60cf1b2106f886f17cba2b1a0359b9:disqus said. Still some of my favorite comics.

Stealing millions in maple syrup sounds like a nice plot, but what about stealing tons of coffee? On a train? From Idi Amin? Why in the world has Donald Westlake's Kahawa not been made into a movie yet? http://www.nytimes.com/1982…

Her background informing her lyrics is cool, the above sentence reads like a "because A, then B" construct that goes on to imply those without A are less likely to be capable of B. It jarred me out of the review.

Get SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMS a body bag, yeaaaaaaaah!