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Agreed.  I never could empathize with My So Called Life. 

It has changed.  Dan Harmon had been very much involved with the show for the first three seasons, but now people act like he had as much to do with it as, say, William Shatner with TekWar.  But even more importantly, there was a mass exodus of talent on the show besides Harmon - and the actor that has publicly

The irony is that Hogan's Heroes is actually popular in Germany.  Why?  Because the dubbing is done with regional dialects for each of the German characters that apparently focuses on regional-based humor.

Still a vampire.

I'm not sure what it is about Hot Topic that has people freeze it circa 1999, but whenever it's referred to, it's rarely relevant to Hot Topic in the last decade or so.

Marvel hasn't rebooted continuity, although in a way the Ultimate Universe is a "rebooted alternative" continuity.
 They've engaged a "Marvel Now!" campaign and restarted a number of lines (Wolverine, Deadpool, Avengers, etc.), but it's similar to what happened around 2001 or so.
 Wolverine's power levels fluctuate over

Bad phrasing on my part - considering how much Beast hates Cyclops, she doesn't want him to find out that she was aiding Cyclops and company in evading the authorities.

This is what anti-hipsters are reduced to?  Complaining that "hipsters" aren't strawmen enough?

Xavier had something similar - he was actually in a cloned body back in the Claremont run due to the Brood.

Legacy has been full of some great writing and usage of characters - the first arc is about to conclude, and I can't wait to see how it ends.

No, it was the woman in charge of SWORD - Beast's lover.  She revealed for the first time that that her human half is also a mutant.  Despite her threatening dire consequences to anyone who reveals what she did to Beast, it's obvious that's not ending well.

I think the "revolutionary" stance is that Cyclops has a following with ordinary people - mostly youth, apparently.  Only youths are becoming new mutants, as far as I can tell, so I think there's a feeling that "Any of us can become a mutant at any time" - certainly different from how mutants came about prior to AvX. 

Adam-X was part of some weird theme through all the Marvel Annuals that year to introduce a new character.  The irony being that virtually every single one of those characters vanished within a year or so.
Even more bizarre about Adam-X is that he was slated to be a missing brother to Cyclops and Havok, which was swept

It really started to fail when it got bogged down in a ten issue or so pursuit of "M-Plate" to the end of the world or something like that.  Every part of that storyline is like fingernails on chalkboard.

I've been reading through my old X-titles - I had started collecting around 1990 - and I can safely say that the late 90s was indeed terrible across the X-titles; post-Zero Tolerance, all of them seemed to lose their footing.  The main X-Men book was reduced to the team sulking in an empty mansion and not doing much

AVClub gets the credit in my case - I try out new artists once in a blue moon, but one track from Neko Case was enough to make me immediately want the album.

Or Battleship, am I right?

I would still recommend reading Endless Nights - the 'main' story (at least in my mind) is a fairly illuminating prologue to the entire Sandman series, as well some sly revisionism on some of the biggest cornerstones of the DC Universe.  There's something beautiful of seeing Desire and Dream close, of Delirium before

The Beastie Boys appearance was awesome, take it back!

You did see Bender's Big Score, right?