It's just that, after a while, you see these guys returning to the same tropes again and again, and the few counterexamples really don't mitigate that. Moore is often criticized for portraying rape in his comics, but he does so in an unexploitative manner that reflects its prevalence in the real world as a crime much…

Next up: Friends—how the hell could they afford those huge apartments in Manhattan?

Creepy—it was like he was just in the room with me!

It's worth revisiting the thing she wrote for New York magazine during Charlie Sheen's meltdown. It's one of those fascinating things that's written by someone that's so sure of herself that she reveals things about herself, such as her egotism and cruelty, that she never intended to, when she's not just flat out…

As some of my other comments in this thread show, I'm pretty disillusioned by Ellis, from the perspective of a former fan. What I've seen of this GN sounds like more of the same stuff that he's been shoveling out for a while; Ellis writes stories involving history or politics as if he's just read a few articles in The…

I remember him back in the day bitching about someone criticizing his characterization, saying that there was no such thing as good characterization, only good writing. (He's also responded to criticism by talking about how much he's getting paid for what he does.)

Well, a couple of things to pick apart here:

Yeah, you can hear it in interviews that he does, but he exaggerates it a bit as Jr./Flynn.

The Enterprise is a garbage scow?

If he was really authentic, he would have caught consumption or the grippe.

There's a Ron Paul sticker in his notebook.

Not just eyeballin', amirite?

Always wondered about that mug shot; Gale seems like the kind of guy who wouldn't get busted for anything, unless he made bath salts-type synthetic drugs in college.

That is both sad and completely plausible. Then again, if it's coming from Beltran (who IIRC came off both as pretty bitter and a little flaky in Voyager-related interviews back in the day), it might be a joke.

Song of Susannah suffered a bit from mainly being there to set up the last book, and even the last book is a bit anticlimactic after the big shoot-out at Algul Siento, but anyone who doesn't like Wolves of the Calla… well, I feel bad for you, son.

I think that Worf is probably the third-most popular TNG character, after Picard and Data, and the one genuine breakout character because Gene Roddenberry had no idea how popular the Klingons were; Worf didn't even have a name in the original version of the TNG writers' bible.

You got issues, son.

I wouldn't even say that "Crossover" was the best of the series; I'd give that to "Through the Looking Glass", which gave Sisko a chance to be a badass motherfucker and hook up with his dead wife's doppelganger.

A fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with that schedule.

Worf/Troi was done for pretty much the same reason that Chakotay/Seven was done on Voyager: hooking up two characters to give the less-popular one a boost from the more-popular one. Could apply to Trip/T'Pol, although I'm not sure that anyone on Enterprise was that popular, except maybe for Porthos.