I love that Jerry's baffled by the "non-pony country" thing. Yes, Jerry, why on Earth would a Polish Jew in her 80s have wanted to leave for America? What could have been going on in Europe in the 30s to make her want to leave?

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The thing is, in general this summer appears to suck, but that's more or less true every summer. Yet there are two movies I'm extremely excited for, Scott Pilgrim and Inception, more so than any summer movie in several years. And there's Toy Story 3 and a couple of smaller flicks that might be interesting—The…

Yes, this season has been by far the best of the new show. But then, I think the show was pretty much crap under Davies, so it wouldn't have to go far to get there. YET I WATCHED THE WHOLE THING ANYWAY

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But I have to disagree with your love for "Dark Age", which was waaaaaay too long and spelled out its themes far too hamfistedly. If Busiek had pared it down to just the really great, vital story beats, it would have been a terrific 8-issue storyline. Or less.

Well, I loved Confessions, especially the way it paid off all the plot threads set up in the first trade. I agree, that's Astro City's finest moment. Since then I don't think it's ever really gotten to that level, except MAYBE in the two-parter "Serpent's Teeth/Father's Day".

Yeah, I'm with Spacemonkey; Anderson's art really is sub-par. It's possible that his pencils are OK, but his inking is just terrible. The thing about the character faces is dead-on.

For all the first season's massive faults (and I was aware of many of them even as a young child), their foreshadowing of the Borg was expertly handled. Actually, the show's use of the Borg in general was pretty expertly done—foreshadowed in the first season, established in the second as a major threat with only a…

Ironically, I don't think Johns is anywhere near as "shocking" as Ennis or Millar, but he is a really, really shitty writer.

OK, I'm going to be the guy defending Garth Ennis then?

Sorry, David Donne, but Alan Moore was one of the first comics writers whose stuff I read "seriously", and it helped get me addicted to comics something fierce. It all depends on your tastes; I like dense, complex stories with a lot of world-building, so it worked for me. And I really don't think people need to have a…

Uh, you're allowed to say "Shit" on this message board, you know. Try it with me. "Shit. Shit. Shit."

See, now this could work
This is exactly the kind of movie that should be remade: iconic, potentially interesting, but poorly executed. And I've been dying to see Rodriguez tackle a pulp swords-n-sorcery flick, which he seems to have been toying with for a while—I think he has the necessary batshit insanity,…

I think it can be argued that the movie was clearly made by pro-choice filmmakers, but I think that's actually a good thing in terms of "fairness". Taking a phoney, "I'm a totally neutral robot who claims that both sides are equally bad" stance would be unfair. It's important to have some level of balance and…

For what it's worth, I thought it was miles better than Brain Candy.

I totally agree that the "origin" story is incredibly tired at this point. Admittedly sometimes there's a logical "beginning" (Spider-man's origin is actually dramatically compelling, so of course that's the first act of the first movie) but other times you ought to just skip it. Apparently in the early drafts, the…

Without having seen it in at least a decade, I remember "Datalore" as my favourite season one episode. It's actually exciting and sets up a cool villain (who actually pays off later). I think.

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God, I love this movie. It's funnier than most comedies. In fact it may overtake Plan Nine From Outer Space as a slice of unintentional hilarity.

No, Zach's right. When you see the movie it's obvious the narration was tacked on to cash in on The Princess Bride. Probably at the last minute. Otherwise, this was clearly intended as a late entry in the Italian muscleman fantasy genre, a la Herclues, Maciste, etc.

I'm with Default. The hatred for Phonogram, one of the most excellent, joyful comics reads I've had in ages, is flabbergasting to me. It's on par with the people who get riled up about Scott Pilgrim because they hate hipsters. I'm sorry about your personal baggage, but you're seeing stuff in this comic that isn't…