molly and anyone else entranced by the voice of laurence fishburne: if you haven't already seen it, i highly recommend his movie Deep Cover from, i think, 1992 or so - fishburne really uses his voice to pretty fantastic effect in that movie, effortlessly moving from a velvety growl to a flat monotone or a heartbroken…

totally agree. i read the TPBs because i don't like going into comic shops and getting sucked in by all the latest shiny new floppies but if you're going to patronize one make sure they're ordering stuff you're actually interested in. the ordering process doesn't seem as transparent as when they used to hand out a…

i've only read the first trade and i don't know if this has been firmly established in the canon so far but don't the images on the robot's television faces at least sometimes have a metaphorical link their emotional state or the direction their thoughts are trending? that was the impression i got, but it's fairly…

re: solaris and george clooney - i was working as a reporter when one of my coworkers mentioned having gone to see Vanilla Sky when it came out and i was interested to know what she thought, since i'd enjoyed it. i mentioned that i'd checked out the spanish movie it was based on a couple weeks ago and, while i liked…

timely, sacrilegious AND hilarious - pretty much the comment the internet was designed to birth. well done, good gentle.

landry should totally have stuck with the nerd girl but it's totally the teenage boy move to go for the cheerleader instead; when he bumps into the nerd girl when' she's become a smart, successful and smoking-hot adult woman, he'll realize it, too.

"No one could be this famous and successful if he didn't have some sort of talent, right?" i'm not a fan, but i think he's got several talents: he's been very successful at self-promotion or branding, he's agreesively focused on serving a niche market and he basically just keeps plugging away, ignoring the critics -…

i love the hell out of Unwritten but i'm reading the trades and they don't lend themselves to the same fan discussion as the floppies… same with reading Saga in the trade format - i've heard it's a great package in the floppy format but the price point and ease of storage with the trade is just too overwhelmingly…

have you dug into any of sienkiewicz on moon knight or his work with miller on elektra? i love his New Mutants stuff, but those are worth looking up as well.

i understand that some people are really turned off by the black and white but i will say that i think it really highlights some of the artwork - stuff by neal adams, for example, actually looks better to me in black and white when compared to some of the flat, muddied coloring of the original era… i realize that was…

newton: to be fair to douglas adams, he did, um, die before he could finish the third dirk gently book.

michael zulli's stuff was collected in SOUL'S WINTER but i don't know if it's still available. i remember getting some of the original issues and loving the shit out of his artwork.

dude took a lot of lumps but "What's Up Fatlip?" is a killer song and i don't know that it would be just as great if the guy hadn't gone through a ton of shit along the way…

yeah, but she looks like an extra on The Simpsons.

hey, thanks for linking to that article - i'd be curious to know if anyone has ever tried to figure out if the quality of food in school cafeterias had an effect on the lifelong eating habits of the kids exposed to the food.

American Gods could have used some editing, either removing the scattered vignettes about forgotten/dying gods [or using them as promotional pieces in magazines, internet sites, etc.] OR the editor should have insisted he add enough of them so their inclusion added something to the story, even if only by repetition -…

no one who can use the internet is too old for comics. if you can follow these conversational threads enough to be interested, trust me: you'll be fine just picking up pretty much any book that catches your eye and just going from there.

yeah, the first book i really got intrigued in figuring out the backstory for was the larry hama GIJoe book - i picked up an issue with storm-shadow on the cover and it had references to all this backstory between him and snake-eyes and, once you started getting into it, about a quarter of the rest of the sprawling…

this is not the response you were looking for but i'd reccommend you just pick a point and dive in - it's basically what every comics fan has to learn to do at some point.

i don't remember where i came across this idea [although it was probably someone on here…] but i think there's a school of thought that basically says, since the joker is crazy, he doesn't actually care who batman is behind the mask - the joker is locked in a truly epic struggle with his archetypal polar opposite, not…