"Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" was close to DCAU greatness. It had comparable levels of animation and characterization, and it was arguably better at adapting comic book storylines into the series' narrative (DCAU, to its credit, exists largely independent of the comics.)

Absolutely. Beyond just cartoons,"Batman: The Animated Series" is one of the greatest superhero anythings, ever.

The Tick was amazing. Speak the Dog is worth his (considerable) weight in gold, though my favorite line is probably, "every time we turn on the Der Fledermaus Signal, he disconnects his phone and leaves town for a week."

I could watch this scene all day:
http://youtu.be/n7Bc7QQeLAY…

Awesome. That montage is almost as inscrutable as "On the next episode of Mad Men" clips.

"Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" was fantastic. Damn shame it fizzled out just before the movie took off. If it'd premiered a little later, it might've found an audience.

OK, the Australian thing was inexplicable, but his character was a lot better defined than it was in this show.

OK, let's all be honest here: this show fucking sucked. Everyone's entitled to have great memories of it, no one's trying to take that away. It's perfectly cool to have loved stuff like this as a kid (I watched the first "Transformers" series religiously, which makes "X-Men" look like "The Sopranos" by comparison.)…

Fuck yes. I remember gathering up a handful of singles one day, then having to put it all back because I only had $20 and ran across a 6' tall poster of TKK's "Some Have to Dance, Some Have to Kill."

I lived in some weird limbo where it was somehow impossible to get my hands on any Raygun until around the time they were about to break up ('92? '93?) Damn shame, really.

@avclub-920530cb8744c679e3a2ece84f1d5ce4:disqus , I think the saving grace for Green Day is that they made punk-themed music, not just punk-sounding music. Four or five years later, Blink 182 would be crowned as the next big thing in punk, but their actual lyrics are almost indistinguishable from Lavigne or even…

The song "Walking Contradiction"earned Green Day a little bit of respect in my eyes. At least they didn't have any illusions about what they were doing.

1990. Man. I was fifteen and had dipped my toe into the local Chicago punk scene, but hadn't really been impressed. I was too busy soaking up all the old "classic" punk that was still new to me (DK and Fear, especially) so the weekly displays by "We're Getting Lots of Feedback From Our Shitty Amps" at the VFW hall…

I wonder if Alonso lights up a cigar every time DC begins a big new Event. I've found Marvel's annual crossovers to be fairly hit-or-miss over the years (Age of Ultron pretty much sucked, but Secret Invasion and Dark Reign were pretty good overall, and AvX was intriguing and ambitious, if ultimately disappointing) but…

That's exactly what I liked about both of those books. With a few exceptions, they stayed far away from the events of the original series. "Minutemen" in particular reminded me a lot (in tone, at least) of Moore's own "The 49ers," his prequel to "Top Ten."

" Minutemen and Silk Spectre are the only prequels that I feel actually enlighten my reading of the source material"

"Pacific Rim" is an amazing good time. It's fun, it's exciting, and it's almost as important for the things it DOESNT do. For instance, at no point in the film does a kaiju let itself get captured on purpose so it can then taunt the jaegers from inside its prison cell.

Despite being sick to fucking death of him from almost the very moment of his first appearance (being created by both Leifeld and Fabian "the Liefeld of scripting" Nicieza will do that,) I reluctantly came to love Deadpool due almost entirely to David Lapham and Kyle Baker's "Deadpool MAX," which manages to maintain…

I'm not sure which line I've used more, that one or Randy Quaid's "It's bad luck just SEEIN' something like that!" from "Quick Change."

I agree. The idea of a lonely guy getting a monkey could be funny, and it often was (thanks largely to Schwimmer and the writers), but it belonged on a different show. It would be like if Phoebe suddenly gained "Out of This World" time-stopping powers.