There's something wrong with me. I know Hemlock Grove is not a good show, but after two episodes, I found I was non-ironically hooked.

@avclub-e56ced79d1049a08025835434a572e01:disqus  SPOILER: But if they do that, can they can still leave in the part where she gets it on with Missandei? I mean, umm… it's totally integral to the plot, and uh… to lose it would confuse the viewers when later events… uhhh…. and stuff…

I saw this movie around age 13 after reading the unauthorized Lucas biography Skywalking (which I was inspired to read after a viewing of the Star Wars trilogy), and it was a pretty revelatory experience for me. At the time, I could only think that it was kind of like 2001, but more low-tech and grungy. I really dug…

@avclub-ec26fc2eb2b75aece19c70392dc744c2:disqus I know precisely how you feel. I watched it Sunday morning, and I still found myself afraid that I'd have some kind of nightmare about mushrooms growing out of my skin when I went to bed over twelve hours later.

@avclub-d980b15d49101608dc407770f35b1d75:disqus I couldn't even make it past the first fifty pages. Considering how short it is,—and that I was unemployed with nothing to do at the time—I'm going to say the answer to your question is yes.

The first thing that popped into my head when I read the headline was the whispered "Quite rightly," from Donovan's "Mellow Yellow." Although I suppose that's more stupid than weird.

@avclub-97d6c074b974838257db17a02f8784c4:disqus I've often considered sci-fi to be more of a setting than a genre. The sci-fi stories I've seen in films and read in books are often other genres set in the future and/or on alien planets. Alien is most definitely a horror movie that is set on a spaceship. Heinlein's…

@avclub-1bcaea6d00884aeafe0c076bd322f825:disqus You'd also miss out on that great end credits music in the first film! Sure, it plays during an earlier scene, but it just doesn't have the same effect as having it suddenly start playing after that abrupt cut to black. (I actually like to start humming this music after…

@avclub-3e9e0f1010418374c3dd9ccf3b0ed27c:disqus Someone makes "St. Anger" flags?

Year One is one of the most perfect comics ever created and is one of my favorite stories told in any medium. I'm always astonished at how perfectly economical the whole thing is. Miller and Mazzuchelli don't waste a single panel, and they tell their story in a way that could only be told in comic book form (as I…

I definitely think Snyder's is the best written of all the Batbooks, but I'm starting to get a little tired of the fact that every one of his story arcs feels like it's trying to be a huge event (to the point that the last two crossed over with nearly every other series in the Batman family). I'd really appreciate it…

I'll second the Batwoman love, but I do have to say that I don't find the writing nearly as good as I did when Greg Rucka was working on the character. The art's still as good as ever, though. Some of those pages are like wonderful pieces of pop art that I would love to have framed on my wall. Seriously, look at this…

I'm still kind of bummed that Barbara Gordon went back to being Batgirl. I actually thought she was more interesting as Oracle, and like you said, she was an excellent depiction of a positive representation of a person living with a disability.

I initially posted this below as its own thread, but I kind of feel it belongs up here instead:

I actually thought Spider-Girl had a pretty great 'Nuff Said issue. It starts with one of my favorite things I've ever seen in a superhero comic when a police medical examiner unzips a body bag and is momentarily shocked to find the body of a costumed villain (who died in the previous issue). The comic occasionally…

I guess I was thinking in terms of TV shows, like Heroes and Arrow.

I'd donate to a Kickstarter for The Cape in a heartbeat. That show was so unabashedly goofy and fun. It was everything I wish Heroes had been. In an age where people seem to think that the only way to make a successful superhero franchise is to Nolan it up, it was refreshing to see something that didn't forget to have…

I'm currently about a third of the way through In Cold Blood and really liking it a lot. I'd planned to move on to Hammett's The Thin Man after that, but after seeing the trailer for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, I'm now kind of in the mood for a pirate story. I was thinking of On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Any…

I absolutely loved Annihilation and Annihilation: Conquest. They're like a really great summer blockbuster movie. It's a shame Abnett and Lanning aren't writing the rebooted Guardians of the Galaxy or Nova series.

I worked in a video store in college, and one of the English professors came in once. While we were talking, he mentioned that he was teaching the Literature In Film course, and I told him that I'd taken it the previous year from a different instructor. When he asked me which books/films were on the syllabus, I…