If we're counting votes here, I think it would be a shame to stop here and NOT review the Batman Beyond series next.  It is obviously a direct sequel with the same characters!

I also wonder why I get so worked up over such a lousy movie…*sigh*

I think the worst offense of a trailer giving away too much was for the Harrison Ford/Michelle Pfifer movie "What Lies Beneath".  The reveals in the trailer basically invalidate the entire first half of the movie, in which they play it up like we are really supposed to believe the next door neighbors might be up to…

I just want to say how grateful I am for you writing these columns.  "Year of Flops" and "World of Flops" are, without a doubt, my favorite columns on the AV Club and the ones I always looked forward the most to reading.  Having also purchased your book and read it several times, I can only say that I hope you…

Just like the Simpon's classic, "Knight Boat"!!

Seriously!  Can they stop people from buying brown coats, too…?  I don't see how a "cease and desist" could possibly be legal for a hat pattern!!

Nicky was waiting for a plane to come get him and take him to Detroit.  Obviously he did not realize that SAMMY was on the plane.  I'm sure he was expecting the empty mob plane to come get him after he was done talking to Raylan…

I'm confused about something, so maybe everyone here can clarify something…I understand that Ava was seriously considering killing Ellie May.  But wasn't Boyd LOOKING for Ellie May so he could turn her over to Nicky Augustine, to use as some sort of collatoral for getting at Drew Thompson.  Wouldn't Augustine be…

I also remember Jonny Fairplay's first season, and how much he antagonized everybody.  I remember thinking that his "strategy" seemed to be to piss people off so they would take a swing at him and get booted off the show.  As I recall, Rupert ALMOST took the bait…would have been worth it in my opinion!!

Oh…sorry…just read the link and I stand corrected…and EWWWWW!!!

I read most of the Xanth stuff and Incarnations of Immortality stuff and don't remember there being a lot (or ANY) pedophilia in it…but that was a long time ago.  It might have gone over my head.  I never heard he had a reputation for that sort of thing (writing about it, not doing it!!)

I didn't think anyone wanted to hear the details who hadn't read it…just trying to spare the young minds who read AV Club…  LOL!

When I was younger, I bought an "adult novel" by Piers Anthony (creator of the Xanth Series, among other young adult-aimed books…) called "Firefly".  It was a good book, but it was pretty sexually graphic, especially for me at that age.  It also included a very detailed account of a pedophilic encounter between a man…

I don't think they were "failures".  I just think he hired blind workers to move the dead bodies into his storage facility so no one (including the workers) would know what he was doing.  That was my take on it, anyway…

I have a book called "Looking for Calvin and Hobbes" which seems very similar to this movie…even interviews with the same people.  Does anyone know if this movie is based on this book or created by the author?

I just want to say how absoutely BAD-ASS Catman is/was under Gail Simone in Secret Six…I thought the ending to the series when DC "re-vamped" the DC Universe was a disservice to the character and the group and the fact that the Secret Six didn't get a "New 52" book is a tragedy…new Suicide Squad is okay, but not half…

You know…you are probably right!  I did read the first Batman Beyond "mini-series" and that sounds more familiar then the Spellbinder episode, which I didn't think referenced the Scarecrow gas from the past.  (I just hate to admit I liked Batman Beyond so much I bought the first mini-series…!!)

What I like about this episode, besides the traumatic impact it had on me, is that they do a "callback" to it in Batman Beyond, where they reveal that Commissioner Barbara Gordon still has a reaction to the fear gas after all those years.  For a kid back then unfamiliar with "callbacks" and continuity, this blew my…

I really liked the well-thought out and interesting article!