Adored this show back in the day. Sad to realize (as the reviewer states so well) that is has become documentary.

Great story, fun cameos. As a kid I didn't get the Cleese appearance, but it was a fun discovery upon rewatching. I wonder what other fun cameos I missed during the original Baker run?

It's Xmas time in Hollis Queens! Mom's cooking chicken and collard greens.

Surprised 30 Rock isn't up there.

Highly skeptical.

Agree as well. I actually wrote him when I read it as a lad, in the early nineties. He wrote me back an awesome letter. Great book, class act author. I was a happy young man.

I agree, the Aching books are a nice entry. You get the sensibility, fewer characters, and little world building.

Agree on this. Interesting Times is so amazingly funny and quotable. I thought I'd hate the book, and I expected some lazy "culture" comedy. But by and large it rises above and is genuinely funny. Cohen helps that a lot. 

Haven't seen the show, so I don't know in this context. But for Muslims it's a pretty natural topic. I imagine there is a Sufi (or at least Sufi-oriented) masjid in the Dearborn area, for one.

I built suspense!

By "an African muslim section" I was referring to the south end of Central. Didn't figure anyone would know it here. Most of the rest of Seattle is fairly white and middle class, I guess.

I kinda wish that too. I lived in Seattle in a African Muslim section of town. Very different in every way from Dearborn. I hope they'll find a way to get some other cities' communities some screen time.

Interested to see where this goes. I wonder how they'll handle some outlying aspects of American Islam, like Sufis.

Monkey my friend, this is my childhood exactly! You're not my brother by any chance?

"As part of his continuing efforts to ensure that nobody ever confuses him with Hank Williams Sr., "
Mean and accurate. Bless you, Mr. O'Neal.

Great write up, thanks.

The Tick was great.

I definitely don't get too caught up with the timeline issues— for one, it seems as though the series has established the whole "alternative realities" out when they need it.

The cover for "I'm Gonna Spend My Xmas…" is amazing. I never get tired of it.

This was definitely the case with me. I actually started looking into some of the comics I had read years ago, and picked up a few odd indie books I wouldn't have wandered into the comic shop to read. DC relaunch, gimmicky as it is, did get me to pick up some books.