The media catches you making one little mistake, and that's all they ever talk about. Look what they did to Hitler—no one ever talks about his paintings.

@avclub-a74751295995aad6799bb16021522543:disqus
And there was… Crafty!

I too thought of Chris Ware when I read this issue. Like the Acme Novelty Library, it uses a non-linear arrangement of complex yet clear icons to tell a story.
Hawkeye is proving to be a dependably great series. The experiments pay off—you never know what the next issue's going to be like—but it's also got heart and…

@avclub-a80fcd777df4edacea4dd9e20f8730e4:disqus Yeah, you'd be a step up for Sandra, even if you are, in fact, an animated waterfowl. Give her a call.

Well, I liked Routh. He did a good job. So there's that.

Three things about Bosworth's portrayal of Lois Lane:
1. One-note
2. Unconvincing
3. Utterly unlikeable
I mean, this is a woman who can make one of the most powerful beings in the universe put on glasses and act like a goofball just so he can be around her.
The only good thing about Bosworth's performance was that it made…

Currently reading On Parole by Akira Yoshimura. Haven't read a ton of Japanese authors, but the ones I have read all have these extremely alienated protagonists, who report on the visual and seasonal phenomena around them from a psychological distance. Also, they tend to describe systems in depth, be they mechanical,…

The only Murakami I ever read was Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which is hard to describe, but passages and scenes from that book have stayed with me for years and I'd totally recommend it. It just doesn't work in a linear fashion, like a story; more in a cyclical way in which images/circumstances are repeated. When I heard…

@avclub-9976473e5d3a3143ced6cf1511098e5b:disqus I want to say it was in this newsprint magazine called "Read" that supplemented our classroom reading assignments. This would have been in Orange County, CA. I can remember similar grisly stories in Read, including one where a robot, trying to 'fix' a broken human,…

I had to read it in grade school, for an assignment. Never forgot the story, or those last two sentences. Would that all my homework had been so awesome.

I will be huddled in a corner quivering in terror all day in his honor.

And Jack Vance.

@avclub-749a8e6c231831ef7756db230b4359c8:disqus  C'mon man, I said no spoilers.

But is there much ado in the film, and is it all about nothing? And please answer in a spoiler-free way, thanks.

If I stop comparing it to the mind-blowingly inventive first film, I am forced to admit that Monsters University was a very good, very enjoyable movie, carried by its characters and performances.

So totally worth watching. Just don't expect scary. It's not really a scary film but good God is it eerie. One of the eeriest movies ever made. Just this fantastic, dream-on-the-verge-becoming-a-nightmare atmosphere that pervades the film.

Agreed. Those Complete Carl Barks Library hardcovers are things of staggering beauty. Very sad to hear this news, especially since I'm also a big Hernandez Bros. fan and know that they couldn't have done what they did for decades without Fantagraphics and guys like Thompson supporting them.

All that said, I will agree that Cars 2 is far from being the worst animated film for kids.

I didn't think it worked even as a secret agent spoof. There was nothing particularly clever or interesting about Michael Caine's performance. The evil plan was straightforward you've-seen-it-before-a-million-times, with no wrinkles or subverted expectations. And I actually like Larry the Cable Guy's performances as…

I suppose I have a terrible Machiavellian quality in me that fears becoming lifeless and empty far more than becoming corrupt and destructive. If I could trade my 'personality,' which doesn't seem to impress anyone, for awesome powers, that might not be so bad.
Can't believe I just wrote that. See you in hell, amigos.