Billy Ray seemed to be allergic to shirts in the 90s. There was a real "Fabio from Nashville" vibe going on there.

The new trade edition has it as a Vertigo publication now that Wildstorm has folded.

1. Low.
2. Ziggy Stardust.
3. Aladdin Sane.
4. Hunky Dory.
5. Station to Station.
6. Scary Monsters.
7. "Heroes".
8. Heathen.
9. Live Santa Monica '72. I know it's a live album, but the Spiders are on fucking form here.
10. The Next Day.

You had a lot of gay musicians jumping off that ship in the Reagan/Thatcher years. Elton John got married, Freddie Mercury and Rob Halford kept themselves in the closet, Little Richard tried to get back in the closet, and Lou Reed wrote a whole song whose chorus went "I love women". Even Donna Summer had become…

One of my lecturers was a writer on that film, and loves to talk about how he ended up accidentally babysitting young Duncan Jones when Bowie was on the set.

You are off the fucking chain!

"And if I were you, I wouldn't probe the situation too closely…rich boy."

The fact it aired on Cartoon Network, probably. Besides, when we've got stuff like Adventure Time and Gravity Falls that are aimed at children but successfully incorporate jokes for an older audience, I don't think there's anything wrong with describing something as a children's show. It suggests a level of disdain…

I gave up on Nemesis around the time he managed to force Morrow's daughter and gay son to have sex and rigged her womb to collapse if they tried an abortion. This wasn't out of anger, just utter amazement at Millar's idea of a serious dilemma. A booby-trapped vagina. Pretty sure I cracked up laughing in the store.

@avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus That's the biggest problem with the first film, it felt thematically confused. At first it was going down the road of super-realistic ultraviolent "this ain't your daddy's comic" superheroics, then abandoned it just as quickly when it came to a ten-year old girl flipping…

Nope, that sounds about right. There's a joke about him I vaguely remember from somewhere:

Since when do you defend critics on The AV Club? Is there something in the water where you are?

I really liked the first Kick-Ass, so I picked up the original comic. It just made me appreciate the film more. Ugly, nihilistic adolescent trash. The film had moments of inspired lunacy, like scoring fight scenes with the Banana Splits and Elvis, and the pace never dipped. The comic is like an R-rated version of The…

"This Little Piggy" is one of the most divisive episodes of this series

Wasn't his last work in comics Joe Kubert Presents? Or are we just counting work published while he was still alive? Because I'll take another Hawkman adventure by Kubert over inking Nite Owl as his final bow.

Nah, I've been outside that pond longer than I've been it. My wheelhouse is mostly orchestral music and the "High Canon" of rock music (your Beatles, your Stones, your Bowie, etc etc), but at a certain point, I just got bored with being surrounded by stuff I knew I liked. I started university and began reading Phonogra…

I've dabbled in Sigur Ros, they're an act I'm still getting into, but "Samskeyti/Untitled #3" from ( ) breaks my heart every time I listen to it.

Oh thank Christ someone mentioned Pet Shop Boys. "Love is a Bourgeois Construct" is almost certainly going to be my favourite song of 2013.

Mainstream pop music just doesn't have anyone this captivatingly weird.

@avclub-2abf2b82c099047f2d089c7e7abe42b1:disqus Isn't the whole deal with Iron Man that Tony Stark is more interesting than the secret identity? It's like an inverse of Batman.