Gene Ha's based in Chicago, and did a signing at my local comic shop a few years ago. The shop is dog-friendly, so I brought my mutt along with me. Turns out Ha has dogs of his own, so he drew me a headshot of Sgt Kemlo. It is one of my most cherished possessions, right up there with the drawing I got this Spring from…

They're solid, but best judged as something very different from the originals. The plot and overall storytelling can't approach what Moore created, but Cannon and Ha have a solid grasp on the characters (although - SPOILER ALERT - one in particular is given a considerable overhaul, and that consistency goes a long way.

Woo, any excuse to talk about "Top Ten!"

There's always room for another when it comes to Phil Hartman.

God bless Warren Ellis.

I can dig that idea. But a smarter person wouldn't have done so via an American character (any American character, though using the guy who's supposed to represent the best in Americans is just adding insult to insult.)

There's nothing on this Earth closer to the truth than good satire.

Darryl Zero.

As much as I hate the shitty fan-service in "Kick Ass" and the "let's pretend this isn't just a lonely misogynist jerking off onto his keyboard" of "Wanted," Ultimate Captain America may be the worst thing Mark Millar has ever done. To make matters even worse, he actually wrote other characters praising Cap's…

I like the idea of them having a room with a typewriter that people can book time at to type "all work and no play…"

Like I said, my reaction was somewhere in between Gleason's and Farrell's. At first I was impressed with the architecture and art. But then I realized that it was all just a bunch of INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECTS!

Do retroactive pop pilgrimages count? I visited Bruges in 2005, and my reaction was almost the exact midpoint between the two leads of "In Bruges," as I wandered around the same streets and squares of that movie. Unfortunately, the movie didn't come out until 2 or 3 years later, so there was a lot of "oh, I recognize…

While visiting D.C. long ago, I made my host show me* the "Exorcist steps," which are damn near as scary as the movie itself. They're incredibly narrow, with high walls on either side, making them seem even steeper than they already are (and they're pretty steep.) Apparently they're also a popular ascent for joggers…

Almost as good is how Idle's character kind of owns up to it, as if he's being a man of grudging integrity by telling such an obvious truth. "Well, he did do that, yeah."

One of these fighters is gonna WIN this bout, and the other will almost certainly LOSE!

Ha, exactly. I have a few friends who, the more they sink deeper into online gaming culture, the more the expression of their opinions becomes oversimplified. Their tweets and Facebook feeds don't sound like adult conversations so much as they sound like Consolidated lyrics. Or, as Jack Donaghy put it, "what are we,…

Ha, exactly. I have a few friends who, the more they sink deeper into online gaming culture, the more the expression of their opinions becomes oversimplified. Their tweets and Facebook feeds don't sound like adult conversations so much as they sound like Consolidated lyrics. Or, as Jack Donaghy put it, "what are we,…

Even the best horror stories can often lose some emotional steam once the exposition and "showdown" parts of the narrative begin, and NOS4A2's no exception. But Hill's focus on character and setting is so good in the first 2/3rds that the resulting "action" sequences toward the end at least have some weight to them.

I really liked his King references as well. Reading it around the same time as seeing "Into Darkness" and "Man of Steel" reminded me that fan service can be done well

The Yeastie Girlz are also responsible for Consolidated's "You Suck," a song that should be issued to every straight male the day he reaches third base.
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