So glad someone posted that.  It was really one of the best things that ever happened.

Actually I had to force myself to keep watching "The Wire" after that scene, which I found gimmicky as FUCK and eye-rollingly obvious.  But I hope we can all live in peace.

As per my above post, make it "Odessa" vs. "Odessey".  Then you not only have the huge sound-alike market to tap into, but the Bee Gees still win.

"Odessa" = not optional (C) ZMF.  Their real masterwork of the 60s.

She wasn't Baker's daughter.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Hmmm.  As a 15-year-old nerd, I thought the Moench run was a big step down from Gerry Conway (at least I think it was him…?)

I thought Firestorm (or more correctly "Fury Of Firestorm" was awesome at the time.  Yeah, it's aged as poorly as any superhero comics from 1983 have, but if you scrounge them up you'll still get a kick out of them.

I am an old man as well, but I was THERE, man.  This ain't a bad list at all, but honestly there's no reason for the Marvel/DC superhero stuff to be on it, other than someone's nostalgia.  (BELIEVE me I know — that's all I was reading at that point and it doesn't hold up as anything else.)

Don't think so, unless you're thinking of Tavon.

I can't stand the Smashing Pumpkins, but I can never "unlike" that "killer in me" song after it was used in the second-last episode of S5.

"The Shield" will always be linked with post-9/11 / war on terror, obviously because it was contemporaneous but also because of early reviews like the famous Salon piece about the premiere ("a cop show George W. Bush could love")

http://www.avclub.com/users… : I insist it can be both.  Or "plead", more like…

Well, an "era" can be about a year if this article's anything to go by: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Lem: only by comparison to the rest of the Strike Team.  He's the really NICE lawbreaking thug cop, I guess.

Exactly.  Before we start figuring out quotas etc., who exactly is the shining paragon of MANhood in "The Shield"?  Damned if I can think of one.

And yes, I desperately want ZMF to come into this thread and more properly explain exactly how Aceveda OWNED in that scene.  My use of the word OWNAGE is both homage to and invocation of the man who OWNS OWNAGE.

SPOILERS for later

It was big, my friend.  And it's only the beginning.

I took a big dump on my copy of Watchmen, and it didn't illuminate any aspects of the story, deepen my understanding of any of the characters, or call into question any part of the original novel.  In fact, it seemed like a senseless gesture and it certainly didn't improve Watchmen at all.

No it doesn't!