I was thinking about this… I suspect part of the problem is that the obvious title ("Sinister Six") is a wee bit too close to the book's obvious spiritual predecessor, Secret Six.  Don't know specifically what Marvel editorial was thinking, but avoiding the appearance of being a cheap rip off was probably as important…

Okay, finally got around to reading it, and, damn, was it hilarious.  I think my favorite bit was them robbing the comic shop.  Hilarious.  Thanks, everyone, for recommending this so much—I was totally ignoring it because I thought it was just going to be more like Superior Spider-Man, rather than like Hawkeye meets…

Okay, going to have to check this out.  Only recently getting back into new comics, and I've been turned off of the Spider-Man stuff for various reasons, but this sounds pretty awesome.  Does it require any knowledge of what's going on in Superior Spider-Man (beyond the vaguest knowledge that Doc Ock has inhabited…

@avclub-87e5534d9bc0a57552c66125db770c46:disqus In all likelihood it had been at some point, but was already opened by some enterprising young rapscallion before I got there.  It was a Borders in Midtown Manhattan, so it got pretty heavy traffic.  They had a really good graphic novel section, though it seemed to move…

I can't help it, but I always think of the original Christopher Priest, the UK sci-fi author (of "The Prestige" and "Inverted World" fame), when I hear the name.

Back when it came out, I read the first volume of Lost Girls in a Borders Cafe, since I was not about to drop $100 on it without reading at least part of it first.  Only when I finished that first volume did I glance at the back cover, which I want to say featured the three girls naked and masturbating.  I suddenly…

Shaqnado?

Brave 2: The Quickening

I would call it "Sex Toy Story," but in all likelihood, they would go with "Toy Story XXX: The Porn Parody."

@avclub-14e4cee178d88fb9aa346dbcc11f2873:disqus I understand complaints about adaptations deviating too much from the source material, but I always get a little irritated by people who nitpick things like the fizzy lifting drinks or the classroom scenes, since I think they by and large make the adaptation successful.…

I'm waiting for a revival of Herman's Head.

@avclub-c1fe85b855c6d045b827f74a1e2c3fd7:disqus Much like "Octopussy".

Preceded by Are You Being Served.

The PJ King Kong was okay, but yeah, way too long—it was the first genuine evidence of the growing problem of PJ being entirely unable to keep himself to manageable lengths after the success of LOTR.

Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy:

Given that my last two apartments have been seriously lacking in the closet department, it sadly doesn't take much to wow me on that front.

@avclub-e129a878f7b0e5aa9ac09e0282f64ea6:disqus You'd be surprised.  My mom has always been a bit of an activist.  When the only movie theatre in town started using non-union labor, we still went there (because, hell, where else were we supposed to go?), but my mom grumbled.  But then one day we decided for some…

I suspect my daughter will be similar to this.

All that said, I did love my room in that house.  It had this awesome built in desk/bookshelf unit that was like made of oak.  Thinking back on it, it would have been the platonic ideal of a college dorm, except occupied by a 5th grader.  Man, I have some great memories from that room—building LEGO sets, reading D&D…

But what's weird is that I moved around a lot, so I lived in a few different houses, an apartment, etc., and yet I still thought my friends' houses were strange.  When, in retrospect, the strangest house was this one that we rented for a couple of years with a garage-turned-family room, a pass-through bathroom with…