The JFK plot is a McGuffin.

Oh please… Maybe a half dozen are about childhood fears. He wrapped that up with IT, nearly 30 years ago.

My favorite detail was Paul McCartney being blinded at the Beatles Reunion concert

To quote an epigram from a related novel, "You don't fuck around with the infinite". You can't just expect to stop the pivotal moment of the 2nd half of the 20th century and have things turn out ok…

Followed up by "She put herself into stasis for a while, and then committed suicide"

One would hope. Frankly I expect better from AV Clubbers.

My beef is more with Munroe's attitude that only the intelligent people who work in his "approved" fields are worthy of respect. Putting "hard sciences" above "soft sciences" and the Arts is, in my view, self-congratulatory. Geniuses are not solely at work on physics and engineering problems. I suspect there are quite…

It's comics like these, and the giant maps and graphs, that explain why the average xkcd strip is now a single panel or two with a not so funny joke.

email me, we'll work something out

I can't believe this movie took seven and a half million years to make

There's some cemeteries that aren't doing anything productive…

"Glory" was big when I was in High School, lo those many years ago. We had to have permission slips.

Mordecai Brown famously said "I'd sooner lose two of my fingers then play base-ball against a blackamoor! Nor even a quadroon!"

Also the days when New York had 15 MLB Teams

@avclub-230e46d19fe78a6c8dc715659a7188d7:disqus Are you suggesting Bonds ISN'T a complete asshole? Because I don't care what race he is, that dude is a total fucking prick.

Jake Lamotta's Raging Bull-B-Que

Then Spike would be mad that there weren't black players on the other teams…

"I'm sorry… I'm… I'm just so sorry!"

BUT JAY-Z SINGS IN IT

It's never right to nag your captain