Oh my god oh my god oh my god.

I like how, for the past two episodes, Shirin's reaction shots from the jury have been acting as a de facto greek chorus/audience surrogate.

Okay, so… this brings back memories. Ages ago - I want to say 2003? - Al Jean came to speak at my college (the actual talk mostly consisted of him showing a LOT of clips from The Critic and kind of sighing wistfully while they ran), and during the Q & A, the guy sitting next to me got up and, while speaking in his…

In those old pictures of them in Vermont they totally look like they could just grow up to be that northern hippy couple that sells granola and crystals. But enough money and isolation and a fucked-up family can turn just about anyone into a creep.

My favorite part comes right at the end of that interview, and before the hot-mic moment, when Jarecki asks him, "so can you tell me which one of those you didn't write?" and he goes "no."

I assume that at this point Martin's editor just grabs whatever he's managed to write and mails it straight to the printer. "Two hundred pages of a newly-introduced tertiary character who at first blush appears to be tangentially connected to someone else's backstory but is eventually revealed to be meaningless before…

Of course, his abrupt Hellstorm ending had nothing on his abrupt Druid ending, where Marvel was suddenly like "huh, your gritty Vertigo-style horror reboot which we didn't promote at all isn't selling well in the first two issues? Oh good, you're cancelled" so the series ends with "and they killed the main character…

As I recall, in Emperor Doom, Doom basically gets bored of ruling a utopia and gets really excited when Wonder Man blunders into things to fuck up his shit, because, hooray, he gets to break away from the tedium of running the world and go back to fighting to rule it again. I love that take on Doom.

Hot damn, I'm glad to see someone remembering (and writing about) Doom 2099, one of the lost weirdo gems of the 90s. Everything about this run - at least through the end of Ellis's last issue - is great, from the recasting of Doom as a ruthless but righteous revolutionary in the mold of a Robespierre or a Lenin, to…

I saw this and was like, "oh, they're doing a lego episode of Community, huh." But then I saw that it was a lego fan video and then was like, "oh, someone made a lego fan video of Community, huh."

Why do I have to respect her as a pioneer if I think everything she did was basically shit?

Rivers made it up to the B-list? [shakes corpse's hand] Congratulations, Joan! [whispers cattily to talk-show sidekick] She's looking fat.

Yeah, there's still that "they could get seasons and seasons out of my phone-book-length books" line, which is hilarious, and seems to betray a lack of understanding of how television works. Like, this isn't a cartoon; those are actual human actors who are getting older and bigger and what have you. As a number of…

I'm not sure where book-readers get the idea that those who haven't read the books haven't read them because they're opposed to reading books, period. I'd have read the books if they weren't fucking terrible. As it turns out, there are entire libraries full of more interesting and compelling books I could be reading…

This episode was hilarious. Apparently we've gotten to the point where the most straightforward collection-of-jokes style episodes are puzzled over as being bizarre and disjointed because, I dunno, they don't have important plot and backstory nuggets in them or whatever? It's Adventure Time, people, grab your…

Dude - Obama has not stopped torture. Torture is still going on, on a regular basis, at Guantanamo Bay, where force-feeding by tube - considered torture by the UN - has been going on for Obama's entire term, to say nothing of the torture that continues at Bagram Air Base and dozens of CIA black sites, and through…

"Defeatist" is amazing, and it's fascinating to read along with Palestine to see the evolution of Sacco's style from that earlier, looser, more obviously Crumb/undergound-influenced style to the much more precise, more photorealistic style he adopted since Safe Area Gorazde. Sacco is also just a really funny guy when…

I'm not sure where anyone gets the idea that satire of any kind is meant to be subtle. Dr. Strangelove is about as subtle as a brick to the back of the head; Salo, which Tim O'Neil mentions in his review, is as subtle as being kicked in the groin until you puke.

So we're agreed on Aziz Ansari. But what did you think about the sketch?

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