I think there's a lot of physical similarity between Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey and Clancy Brown - they all that grizzled, tough-guy character actor look to them. Perlman wins on screen presence, though.

The score is still Q to 12!

Didn't the show make some oblique reference to it, with the Motherboy conference sharing a name with a 70s band? ("We are legally obliged to make the distinction.")

Wasn't he an arms salesman in his Kevin Finnerty dream? Little echoes of being in the business of violence, even when he constructs a whole other identity for himself…

Seriously? Escape From New York holds up like gangbusters. And not just because it has the best B-movie cast ever (Kurt Russell, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, Lee Van Cleef) - it's a genuinely thrilling bit of action cinema, because you never know who'd going to get out alive.

"Can't put a timetable on it"?
THAT'S WHAT THE MONEY'S FOR!

Whatever, I just it's good that an album as great as Gorilla Manor is getting some AVC love.

Having only read the first trade of Alias, I can offer my opinion that it is, in fact, decent. I liked the "superhero downtime" aspect of it - dealing with what these characters get up to when they're out of costume. It would be a neat way to make superheroes work on a TV budget.

Yeah, everyone complains about hardcore comics fans being too racist/homophobic/sexist/etc for properly progressive storylines, but you see far more interracial relationships, LGBT characters and the like in the pages of Cape Comix(tm) than you do on US network television.

Yeah, Bendis pre-irritating overexposure, actually put out some solid work.

So many layers to that joke…

Mine was Big Star
I bought the #1 Record/Radio City double album only a month or so before Alex Chilton died, so I was able to appreciate what a great songwriter he was. It sounds like a blueprint for so much of the power-pop that came after it, but remains totally fresh. And it was reading about Big Star on the A.V.…

Disco Sucks and alyxandr are everything wrong with British music.

You are totally right, Jason. Setting Sons it was.

I have to put Sound Affects at the top as well. Apparently it was originally meant to be a concept album, which which explain the lyrical consistency throughout the record. And the cover of "Heatwave" which closes the album is a favourite of mine.

Paul Weller is one of the stand-out artists in British music. Absolutely love The Jam, remain lukewarm on the Style Council, definitely enjoy his solo output, although some of it can be patchy. But I think he's admirable for the way he continually reinvents himself and moves on to new things.

Yeah, that first interview is one of my favourite things on the AV Club. This bit wasn't bad, though:

@werdsmiffery

Yeah, Noah is irritating, but he's also hilarious in his douchiness.

Seriously, The Getaway is awesome.