Guess they should have spent more time on anti-drugs shows, eh?

@avclub-21a8615938a206d4311a58a53ad8890e:disqus : if you're in recovery, then I'm sure you know about the futility of trying to work someone else's program.

Sad but true: if you're on a sinking ship, and you can swim, and the other person won't even try, don't beat yourself up for dogpaddling.

Really? I'm a pretty obsessive Moore fan and I'd never heard that one. (And why couldn't he just fill it in?)

Thank you!

Here's a shitty copy of an old Spy magazine article about Hughes that paints a non-flattering picture of him in general. Even though (as I've commented elsewhere here) I don't think that NatLamp in general has aged well, and feel the same about most of Hughes' movies, I like the bit he did for them about a teenage boy…

I should probably add a longer P.S. to the effect that I used to think that NatLamp was the shit, when I was in high school and could appreciate parts of it while knowing that I'd never pledge a frat and compete in a contest to bring the ugliest date to a party. Then I grew up, and a lot of that sort of thing just…

So, who was responsible for all of the college date rape "jokes" that NatLamp used to thrive on? Was it Kenney?

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE

I look forward to Urban Outfitters putting out a Rollins Band T-shirt without authorization, and being shat out by Henry the following morning.

On the other hand, Leonard Nimoy signs off his tweets with "LLAP." So, we can blame it all on Spock.

Sean, Sean, Sean. I like you, I really do, but you have to stop lifting your columns from Bleeding Cool comment forums. Moore has never objected to people using characters that have had his fingerprints on them—whether they're creations of his or public domain—as he himself has used them. What he's objected to…

There are certainly no other comics sites out there that could do the job.

Hell, DC would give him a book or three in a heartbeat, but he wouldn't do it, as a) DC would frame it as a victory for them, and b) as the numerous firings and reshufflings following the New 52 reboot show, they're still perfectly willing to fuck over creators for no real good reason.

The mini-documentary version of Under the Hood was really good, though, as it gave Stephen McHattie and Carla Gugino much more screen time, and to good effect.

That's the other thing about these books: not only were they of the characters who needed fleshing-out the most, but they also went to the best artists of any of the BW titles.

Trufax: the only reason why the Star Trek TOS theme had lyrics (officially) is so that Gene Roddenberry could claim half the royalties.

I think that the racism and homophobia may have been more accurate for the time it was set. There was a ton of racist caricatures thanks to WWII (even from Dr. Seuss, although Horton Hears a Who! was a later apology of sorts, according to that link), and Coon Chicken Inn was around through the late fifties. As for…

@avclub-8585e3ef66f8d1bc4b1856e529ecdd2c:disqus : Right—the jumping-off point for Minutemen is that Hollis Mason's memoir has some scandalous things in it, such as Blake's sexual assault of Sally Jupiter and Mothman's alcoholism, which Jupiter gives him a little bit of grief about; the BW story is that that is the…

That's my question as well. I came to Avengers Academy pretty late, but I really dove in—the only one I haven't read is the last volume, which I'm waiting for the trade for—and I thought that Christos Gage did a very, very good job with him.