I also saw the Mastodon/Dethklok double bill, and you know what? I really like Dethklok's live show. Maybe not the best of the night, but more than held its own against the other acts.

…huh?

re: that first one: by "the last of which" I mean "Behemoth."

Behemoth/Sufocation/Goatwhore: Relentless brutality through three acts, the last of which was so sincere in its Black Metal Evil that it sold me for the first time on the sungenre's ideology—if not as something to adopt, than as something cool to celebrate, rather than a goofy downside you put up with for the great…

I meant my top 10 of the year, not all time, if that wasn't clear.

I share Pierce's irritation with the stigma against The Sword. Warp Riders owns, and it's not some smirking take on 70s hard rock and metal, it's a straight-up 70s-style metal album with enough original life to it to be more than a throwback. But when I bring this band up at shows or online, there's always that guy or…

Byt "too long" I mean there are three or four dull tunes like You Stupid Mankind, and I feel like they'd have been better off just cutting those and releasing a shorter-than-expected disc.

I fucking love the highlights from that one, though it's too long to be considered a great album IMO. Long Live the King and Who Is Mr. Madman? are great, though, among others.

A quick search shows me that you gave it some love and I'd forgotten, but damn, I'm still spinning that thing (is it okay to say "spinning" if I was born in 1989 and use exclusively mp3s? No? I apologize, then.) Definite for my personal top 10.

Great list, LP
I would have moved The Sword to the main list, and maybe LSOD.

Yeah, it was a direct-to-DVD movie—there's a PG cut and PG-13 cut, the latter of which is what you should get. Agreed about the commentary track, as well.

I thought BB was less consistent than BtAS, but it had some truly awesome highlights. RotJ's flashback sequence (in the PG13 cut) might be my favorite sequence in the DCAU.

Well, hell yeah.
Great write-up Leonard; I'm a fan of yours and I'm really glad it was you who got to do these. I'm totally a member of the generation whose Batman mythos was defined by this show, and to me Hamill remains the greatest Joker, despite some notable recent competition. I know it's a long shot that we'll…

Damn me and my self-doubt.

…is it Hear, Hear or Here, Here?

Hear hear. Anti-Lee revisionism irks me. As you said, all honor to greatness of Jack Kirby, but we still owe a lot of the best moments in the genre to Stan Lee, both directly and through his influence.

Drolz, you're a dick.
Though it was very thoughtful of you to clarify that by ramble, you meant blather.

I wouldn't mind an adaptation of the story of DKR as long as it's NOT a direct image-to-screen translation in the Rodriguez/Snyder vein. Like WATCHMEN, DKR is beautifully visualized—as a comic book. The images would lose their power on a screen.
I think the story could totally support a film adaptation, but only if we…

Which would have looked awesome.

No, wait, it had.