Isn't Jesse Robert Downey Jr?

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I'll be the one person to thank you guys for throwing some love to Lewis Trondheim. (My icon is from his now-defunct series Lapinot.) I can't force myself to give a shit about mainstream comics these days — even flipping through the average DC, Marvel, or Vertigo comic leaves my eyes feeling like…

Zing!

All the younger kids' dialogue is improvised, yeah. I've only seen an episode and a half, but it strikes me as the kind of show that mainstream audiences should be able to eat up.

Further down the rabbit hole…
I know I'm on the second page so no one will see this, but I have to recommend two British sitcoms that as far as I can tell no Americans have even heard of.

Gobs and gobs!

What is irony?
"Couldn't get the rights to an Aphex Twin sample."

Your indie cred is pretty strong. For 1976.

I need to check more of his books out.
A man who writes about Victorian weirdos and can also drop a Rick Nelson line when talking about his place in the literary market is my kind of man.

No fuckin' shit. Babelfishing it isn't enough.

Harbinger of Arockalypse places second. I'd watch a Madea movie if Werner Herzog directed it.

It's not. It's a French comics thing.

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I just wanted to memorialize this second as the second that, when I looked at the front page, this movie's title had

Both those guys are Cake.

It's the last one. Never doubt the power of fratboys embracing something to keep the hipsters far far away.

The Blues wasn't Ken Burns. Martin Scorcese did that one.

Wait a second. Frank motherfucking Zappa is complaining about pop culture being cheesy?

Informed linguistic debate FTW!

I can't tell you how happy I am that someone registered Summer Glau.

Fuck you, Phil Collins.