I was thinking recently how great the Marvel Asgard books have been over the last several years. Fraction's Thor run, Gillen's JiM/Loki/YA stuff, the Immonen Lady Sif JiM run, and Aaron's God of Thunder have all been really, really good (Fear, Itself ntwithstanding). And Loki Agent of Asgard looks promising.

Wrong.  The Tony/Junior scene.  AJ's retarded (yet somehow poignant) "Made in America" speech.  Phil's head, under an SUV tire.  Agent Harris's glee ("WE're gonna win this thing!").  Tony hijacking AJ's therapist ("My mudder was a borderline personality…"). 

Dowd forgot to put "The Great" honoriffic in front of Cage's name in this article. Your argument is invalid.

Haha.  His turn as Max Shrek in Batman Returns is one of the truly great "Christopher Walken: Existential Weirdo" performances.

Because evil corporations control our food supply, unstable states have more and more nuclear weapons, the climate is doomed, the world economy is a giant Ponzi scheme, and Vladimir Putin.

Yeah.  For big releases I liked Iron Man 3. Everything else was somewhere between OK and Utter Shit on the quality scale.

Yeah Preacher really, really does not hold up.  But there is still Hitman, Punisher MAX, Fury: My War Gone By, and various smaller stuff like 303 that are really great comics.

@avclub-991e8bf915707d1cebd758d4ae60b7aa:disqus Unfunnies?  Chosen?  How about casual infanticide followed by rape in an Avengers comic (Ultimates v3)?  Millar's work is pretty much always completely empty and utterly vile. 

The TAB episode was brilliant. The show itself was pretty good for the most part, but that one and the beauty pagent one are pantheon-level outings.

@avclub-7d58cc22d9ed7d85decaa81e6cedee22:disqus Yes, there were talented people and lots of good bits in Running Wilde (David Cross too!).  Unfortunately it was one of those shows that was far less than the sum of its parts.

I am really digging The Wake.  My only complaint about it is that I want to see more of that future world that we've only seen glimpses of…

Yay.  I thought it was very fitting with the playful 60's-retro tone of FF.  Silver Age creators often jokingly wrote bumbling versions of themselves into the story.

Final Crisis rocked.  So many awesome scenes.  The last issue is completely bonkers but in a good way.

True.  But those were on page 2!

Yeah, no new Magicians book till summer 2014.  Though I believe Grossman has a short story set in the same universe in December's "Dangerous Women" anthology.

Don't any of you motherfuckers read?

Never Forget: Franco is genius in Spidey 3, and nearly single-handedly saves the movie.

Hmmm…I've done quite a bit of reading this year and was a little surprised to see that only 2 books I've read actually came out in 2013: Nos4a2 by Joe Hill (quite good!) and The Tyrant's Law by Daniel Abraham.  The latter is book 3 of 5 of Abraham's "Dagger and Coin" epic fantasy sequence.  The series is interesting…

@avclub-9349e20458f64c9bfb83b5221e145937:disqus And also that, in restrospect, she actually cruised there…

Yeah, the problem the show has with the rifts in Harvey's relationships (Mike and Jessica), is (aside freom the fact that it's getting old, like you said) that the show doesn't work long-term without those dynamics functioning.  So it's not a matter of if, but when, they will patch things up.