I'm pretty happy about the amount of space devoted to Lynda Barry, who's never gotten anywhere near the attention or respect that she deserves, notwithstanding that the closest thing that she's got to a peer is Matt Groening. The loss of Ernie Pook's Comeek is the biggest tragedy in the death of comics strips in…

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus I'd quote something apropos from that sequence, but I just ate lunch.

All such comments are redirected to one of DC's newest Superman writers, Orson Scott Card.

Pretty much this. I'm also dismayed at the Moloch miniseries, as he's depicted as a bitter, misshapen freak, when that's not at all supported by the original book; the artist seems to have taken the weird-eared version from the movie and turned him further into someone much more resembling Nosferatu than Dave Gibbons'…

That's about right. Silk Spectre was about the most underwritten of the six primary characters in the original book—she seemed to function more as a plot device in the character arcs of the Comedian, her mom, Dr. Manhattan, and Nite Owl, than as an independent character in her own right—and of course most of the…

Tyler Perry is totally not gay. He will explain this to you in detail at the rest stop on I-80 near the Springfield exit, furthest stall from the door, 9:30 PM on Tuesday.

Given that a group of Starfleet Academy cadets could save the Federation from a rampaging giant starship from the future, I assume the commandant spends his time playing Angry Birds on the prototype holodeck.

Is it just me, or does that not actually look like her? I mean, she doesn't look bad, but…

@avclub-d558185058995263bcbd9fd68a9d732d:disqus : Don't forget Galadriel!

Srsly, I could have seen her getting it for The Wrestler…

@avclub-70c79fc58b2c3e2785355b37573f2f56:disqus : Who says they don't? (Look, if they can store all those nuts in their cheeks…)

Make it with FemShep and I'm in.

You speak truth. HL3 could have Gordon Freeman climbing through a dimensional portal and beating the Combine King to death in a giant mecha suit co-piloted by Dog with a kilometer-long crowbar, plus Alyx Vance giving the full monty, and you'd still have people bitching.

Honestly, CGJ probably would have had exactly that sort of career, more or less, even if he hadn't gotten the Oscar, in much the same way as just about every other minor league/character actor who's inexplicably gotten the big gold dildo over much better actors. Jerry Maguire wasn't inevitable for him, but Snow Dogs…

They counterbalance each other.

You kids with your fancy VHS tapes. When I was your age, all we had were cave paintings. And we liked it! We LOVED it!

I have cousins that knew him when he was still in Indiana, and they affirmed that he'd always been a dick. Me, I wrote him off after he was outed as a domestic abuser.

The thing is, even though I'm pretty liberal and have known a bunch in my life, the only people that really overdo it are college students, who have a tendency to overdo all sorts of things. (See also: bros, people who have just read Ayn Rand/Joseph Campbell/Hunter S. Thompson/Andrea Dworkin/etc. and want to talk…

The thing is, even though I'm pretty liberal and have known a bunch in my life, the only people that really overdo it are college students, who have a tendency to overdo all sorts of things. (See also: bros, people who have just read Ayn Rand/Joseph Campbell/Hunter S. Thompson/Andrea Dworkin/etc. and want to talk…

There's a little bit of anti-Skyler frontloading in the first episode, where she's giving him a handie (on his birthday! The big five-oh!) while paying more attention to her eBay bids (which can't be helping the ol' family finances, of course). That's starting out your character in a fairly deep hole, sympathy-wise.