Here I was thinking that the current version of Doctor Who was pretty awful until Moffat took over and Matt Smith (and yes, Karen Gillan) came aboard.

Flight 714 is so fucking bizarre, and makes me wish Herge had kept cranking Tintin out at the same rate in later years. Most Tintin books are devoid of fantastical elements, so it's a real blast to see aliens show up.

Yeah, Seven Crystal Balls/Prisoners of the Sun is an excellent, epic adventure, clearly an inspiration for Indiana Jones—I suspect that if the Spielberg movie gets a sequel, they'll use that one as the base—and despite some of the cultural chauvinism that dogs the series, a surprisingly positive and respectful take on…

Interesting thing about Tintin that rarely gets mentioned: he was created for a Catholic newspaper and was meant to be an explicit vehicle for…I don't want to say "propaganda", but his debut, "Land of the Soviets", existed more to wax rueful about the evils of the Soviet regime than for entertainment value. "Congo"…

I don't think it was the fact that he hugged him, it was the fact that he now knew the kid was an alien cuckoo and he was still willing to rush to his defense and promise not to send him away. The kid's real fear was that his parents would find out what he was an not love him anymore.

Here's some food for thought: comics have been convoluted continuity circle-jerks for decades…and they sold like hotcakes back in the day. The average 70s X-Men comics were no less convoluted and supposedly inaccessible than JL#1. For all that Crisis on Infinite Earths was instigated because DC was worried about…

Yes to both of you guys. The constant "rebooting for the sake of new readers" seems to actually be pandering more and more to hardcore continuity nerds. If they wanted to actually simplify the continuity for new readers, they'd just simplify the continuity for new readers, without requiring an epic miniseries to…

The best superhero comics (post-80s) have an awareness of their own ridiculousness; you can actually wring substantial pathos out of their absurdity. Watchmen did it, though it partly succeeded through not attempting to make the heroes anything but pathetic freaks or detached, inhuman forces of nature. Unfortunately,…

But Flaubert, the movies you're citing are all indie flicks that opened/will open in limited release, or trashy shit that actively revels in its juvenility (though I enjoyed Wild Things, but that was like 12 years ago…)

Well, to be fair, very little of the violence in American Psycho happens onscreen.

On the other hand, Oglaf is also proof that there's no subgenre, no matter how scorned, that can't be handled well.

Just try and sell people on Oglaf, though. "It's an erotic fantasy webcomic—no, wait, where are you going?!?"

Really? His last name is officially "Mann"? That's slightly better than "Mechanic", but not a whole lot.

Best Nelson replacement for "Ha ha" is "Well done, old man!"

"I mean, we don't want to appear stupid"

Also, trying to hold yourself as being above "nerdy shit" on the AVC forums is kind of a battle that's lost before it begins.

Just give in and watch it. You know you want to.

It's actually become a much better show since she joined. More because of the new showrunner than because of her, although, yeah.

If we're going to die, let's die looking like a Peruvian flute band.

The fact that he's Latino isn't *overtly* part of the storyline…though there's always a subtext, and hey, the show is about how the characters are all kind of assholes, and we've seen them embarrass themselves over racial issues before (George's trying to find a black friend, Jerry's constantly putting his foot in his…