The poem is terrible and it's fine to comment on how terrible it is. But it's a little unfair to say that an artist based out of Boston is "insert[ing] herself into the tragedy" by making art about it. Or is that something we say about all artists?

I saw hipster more than hippie.

I know this is weeks late but I thought it was pretty clear. The opening scene happens before the later events.  That's why the pole where they burnt the girl was black and ashen in the basement. They didn't burn down the cabin, they just burned the girl and I don't recall them burning the book so I'm guessing they…

In the end they all decide that they're a brain, a basket case, an athlete, a princess, and a criminal.

Update: Comixology has posted a clarification on their blog that states that Apple NEVER asked them not to sell Saga #12 specifically but rather they made the decision not to put it on their iOS store fearing it would not meet Apple's guidelines. The issue is now available to purchase everywhere including iOS.

"They'll stick by a show that allows you to abandon a child, but a kid dies by accident doing what he does for a living and they cancel the show?"

I nominate the episode 'Rockumentary' from Saved By The Bell.  The show is cheesy as hell, yes, but it was my first exposure to the American sitcom. This episode, in particular, taught me so much. It was my first dream sequence (the first time I can remember thinking "What is going on?"), it taught me about American…

Apple's position here reminds me of Nintendo in the early nineties. They took a strong position to "protect children" but did it in such a clumsy way that it offended everyone else.  If Apple would have tried to find a solution I'm sure they could have come up with something but instead they went for the lazy route.

Funnily enough, Ianucci's work made me less cynical. I started thinking of politicians less as evil, power hungry, villains and more as incompetent, power hungry, jackasses.  I can work with jackasses, I do that every day now.

If they are taller than you and standing in front of you how is the phone at your face? They would have to be filming the back of their head for this to work.

I didn't often agree with Roger Ebert. In fact there was a time when I was young and liked terrible movies (Spawn?!?) that I thought any movie he disliked must be good. But I always read his reviews. They were intelligent and taught me how to take all art seriously. When I got older and my taste got more refined I…

I just finished John Dies At The End, which I got for free from Reddit, and thank god for that cause it was disappointing.  It was just too scattershot for my taste.

You know how when you just happen to not like something that everyone else loves for some reason so you feel the need to catalog all of it's perceived faults despite how minuscule or imagined they might be so that you can state your case whenever you need to.  That's what PDN's section in this review felt like.

I don't think the Doctor Who series has a live audience or celebrity interviews, it's just behind the scenes stuff.

Sally Sparrow was my first thought for the woman in the shop as well, but did The Doctor ever give her a number to call?

Movies cost more than two million dollars (minus taxes and fees) so my guess is they are simply using the Kickstarter as a way to show how much fan interest there is in a film.  This seems like a perversion of what the Kickstarter model is supposed to be for. And if they don't already have the other funding they need…

I don't think it's as simple as that. Films aren't usually made for 2 millions dollars.  I'm guess the 2 million is about seeing how much fans want the movie.

@@Washizu:disqus : The profits on Kickstarter projects never go back to the donors.  This might be the first time they go to such a big corporation, but what's the big deal? It seems like the creator of the show is behind this project so he must be getting something out of it too.

I would put this strategy in the same category as the Geico strategy, if this is exactly what they're doing.  If they make funny, memorable ads then people will remember the product whether the ad specifically ties to the product or not. I know every time I see the ad mentioned in the article I stop and watch because…

I have to disagree. It's been a while since I've seen the later seasons but I remember never being satisfied with how Julien's story played out. The storyline and Julien's character felt abandoned to me throughout the later seasons.