Thanks Oliver, this was great. Coincidentally, I just finished Vision and her coloring on that especially stood out.

I agree, those Essential books are never my first choice for a way to read something, but they are a nice way to get obscure older stuff for cheap.

I'll have to look for that trade. The thing that made me pay serious attention to colorists for the first time, I think, was actually Bellaire's use of red/blue in Manhattan Projects.

Scoundrels is one of my all-time favorites. Caine and Martin are both absolutely perfect in it.

True, but I meant how he knew how to spell his own name when he had no clue what sounds corresponded to which letters.

I love the part in the first book where Tarzan catches his dinner with his bare hands and eats it raw, then out of the blue Burroughs switches to his previously-unmentioned cousin, hanging out in a post London club and sending his steak back to the kitchen.

It is completely ridiculous (but kind of awesome) when he teaches himself to read both English and French (naturally) several years before he heard them spoken. Burroughs doesn't even try to explain how he manages to match the
written languages to the spoken ones. Tarzan is just that damn good.

Yep. But on the other hand, now that I think about it, they probably wouldn't have thought twice about killing Suzanne "in self defense".

Bayley was caught between Poussey and Suzanne because he was unlucky enough to be the closest one when Suzanne went berserk, and he panicked because he had no training and absolutely no idea what to do.

Looking back, I'm surprised that we saw so little of Poussey and Tastee together this season. That was just about their only scene together, so I'm extra glad they got that much.

You Win This Round, Internet!

There's also the one, around the same time, where Lee and Kirby are looking on with disapproval and grumbling about "the kids today" while Cyclops and Jean are making out in Rockefeller Center.

I loved that FF, and I'm really surprised it didn't make the list.

Supreme in general is wildly underrated, but I really loved that one.

Remember the time when Tony Twist (the hockey player) sued Todd McFarlane over Tony Twist (the obese cross-dressing mob boss from Spawn)? And he swore up and down it was a coincidence until Twist's lawyers produced a Spawn letter column where McFarlane actually cited the two Tony Twists as an example of where he gets…

Yeah, it was pretty good, and Billy Campbell was good on it. He and the guy who now plays Remy on House of Cards were the two that I really remember.

He was decent in The 4400.

The party's in space, Bret.

Between him and Jennifer Connelly, I think it was that whole generation, period.

Now that you mention it, Col. Bat Guano would be a perfect Disqus handle. So would Buck Turgidson