I read them last year, in my early 30s (after having dipped my toes in periodically in the years preceding), and loved them. Everybody's mileage may vary, but I don't know that I'd take a twelfth-grader's opinion much more seriously than a sixth-grader's. I don't mean that as a personal attack on you — I was a hell of…

Maybe not if you didn't like it at all. But I finally finished the six-book Elric series I have (I'm not sure how the stories were organized originally, and I know they don't include every Elric story, but they form a coherent narrative), and I went from enjoying the first book (Elric of Melniboné) to just loving the…

Maybe not if you didn't like it at all. But I finally finished the six-book Elric series I have (I'm not sure how the stories were organized originally, and I know they don't include every Elric story, but they form a coherent narrative), and I went from enjoying the first book (Elric of Melniboné) to just loving the…

I have, I am sad to say, been the immature douche who acted exactly like Greenberg, and in almost exactly the same situation (being confronted with the reality that a girl I like has even a vaguely sexual past that does not revolve around me). I've made a bitchy comment like his about the lack of good beverages, and…

I have, I am sad to say, been the immature douche who acted exactly like Greenberg, and in almost exactly the same situation (being confronted with the reality that a girl I like has even a vaguely sexual past that does not revolve around me). I've made a bitchy comment like his about the lack of good beverages, and…

@avclub-1e8fe0da4da8133c923585a38122d53f:disqus : Don't call it that.

@avclub-1e8fe0da4da8133c923585a38122d53f:disqus : Don't call it that.

Spider Jerusalem's world-shaking newspaper column from the end of the first part of Transmetropolitan. That was some disappointingly hackneyed horseshit.

Spider Jerusalem's world-shaking newspaper column from the end of the first part of Transmetropolitan. That was some disappointingly hackneyed horseshit.

Some of us got it, Kyle.

Some of us got it, Kyle.

@intangible_fancy:disqus:
Sure, it all came down to a glowy cave, but really, what were people expecting? And is that really any sillier than quantum entanglement or whatever as a catch-all pseudo science solution they could have come up with?

Still so angry about the time I invested, and about the wasted potential, because it did start out so strong. For me, the most angry-fying species of internet commenter is the Lost defender, and specifically the Lost finale defender, the idiot who explains that if you're just willing to suspend what appreciation you…

I was just saying that!

This is a quibble, but the latest Shadow and Phantom movie adaptations that have made it to theaters are not so much "recent" as almost twenty years old at this point.

Pretty sure there's a whole internet community based around the fantasy of Muppet rape.

Oh, that's great — thanks for writing and linking that.

"It’s as concerned with what we can get away with as whether we should."

Agreed. I'm at a computer most of the day in a private office, but my job is hard to do while listening to other people talk, and I rarely drive far enough to warrant loading up podcasts for the trip. I sorta feel like I'm missing out on something, but I just don't care enough to figure out how to fit podcasts into my…

Seriously. "You wanted clickbait? WE'VE GOT SOME."