I was born in 1990, so Ultimate X-men was one of the very first comics I ever read. Aside from some Indie stuff (which is what got me into the medium in the first place), and a single issue of Superman where he fights Darksied (which I remember 6 year old me loving), I never really read comics before 2002.

I'm sorry, man. I hope things get a little easier, going forward.

I'm honestly not sure - I'm only really an X-Men reader for the Ultimate stuff. What I do know is that the writer decided that one of the few truly kick-ass gay superheroes needed to also be a substance abuser, and that we're expected to believe that he hid this fact while living in the same house as the world's two…

That "evil dick" line is a perfect example of why Kick-Ass 2 is my third least favorite comic of all time. (I hate "Ultimatum" and the arc of Ultimate X-men with the 'mutant steroids' more, but only because I was actually invested in those stories.) It's just this miserable little black ball of misanthropy, wrapped up…

I still live in Texas, so there's no way I can make it down there, hah-hah.

Ultimately, I agree with you. But I have mixed feelings on the subject. Because on the one hand - bad is bad. Shitty movies do not because inherently less shitty for me just because they have a boy who kisses boys and, "gasp, I'm one of those." But part of that is the fact that I'm an adult now. My perspective has…

Come to think of it, if this "super secret" animated project happens to be Hellboy 3, I'd be just fine with that too.

*clears throat*

After seeing him literally get his heart ripped out, I had a similar feeling, and now a lot of my passion for the character is gone.

Ack. I don't know how I forgot that this is obviously the right answer. The only conceivable way that album could have ended, and absolutely perfect for it.

David Tennant will always be -my- Doctor, the one who got my into the series and, if I'm being emotionally honest, finished the work that Buffy started in teaching me how to be a good, moral human being. Always give people the benefit of the doubt, show mercy, and never stop trying to take the moral high road, even…

Gotta hand it to you, @avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus , you do have a type.

Well, I have nothing articulate to say about this set of episodes (other than I liked them, I thought they were typically great Parks and Rec material, and the first was just slightly better than the second, which felt oddly weightless and disjointed), so I'll just say this:

I would agree with this, if Gravity Falls was not a thing.

You compare people picking on things that are basically objectively terrible like Twilight or 50 Shades of Gray (abysmal, anti-feminist bullshit and the bdsm fanfiction thereof) to bullying?

It's been said before, but Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is definitely one of mine. The scene where Joel and Clementine are under the covers, and she talks about having the "ugly girl" doll and naming it after herself, then just trying to change it and by extension herself with sheer force of will . . . I…

I got to work on the most recent Terrence Malick picture in Austin. Turns out that Ryan Gosling is actually a really nice, affable guy - if a bit spacey. He did hang out with me and give me pointers on my screenplay though, so . . . yeah. Life over.

You're impressive, but I've seen better.

And over the course of a season, nobody learned anything. (Except for Shoshana.)

At first, it tapped into the part of my brain that eats that cheesy romantic shit up with a fucking spoon. Manly tears were, indeed, almost shed.