You guys are thinking of Starz, not HBO.

But why couldn't it be Monsters?

Agreed. Talk about a movie with a cool concept severely hampered by its budget.

By the time Warner Bros. finishes the Fantastic Beasts trilogy Daniel Radcliffe will be the correct age to return to the role.

Yup. For a million dollars. Seems ironic that Victory is defending the rights of their artists to receive royalties when they've been so, so shitty about royalties and well, everything else, to Streetlight.

You have strong points. But man, the ending of the movie hit me hard, though.

I would like this screenplay to be a continuing feature in comment sections, a la O'Neal's Dan in Real Life 2: Back 2 Tha Life.

Yes, they do. After a couple decades of empty promises to do something about the blight, the city and its affiliates finally started demolishing them a couple of years ago.

There were a few years in the late 00's when Detroit briefly became a destination for film and tv productions due to some great tax breaks. Then Republicans took over the entire state legislature and Governorship and took away 90% of those breaks and instantly destroyed the industry in its infancy.

That's fair.

Man, does "1979" suck. The only good part of that song is the bridge. Obviously the world disagreed with me back in the 90's, but I think Flood tried to make the right call, creatively.

They were what passed for ska in the 90's. In the context of this article, all of the bands I mentioned had much, much better claims to ska than No Doubt. Because aside from a handful of traditionalists like Hepcat, the 90's was all about ska-punk.

I did like the work Pichelli and Immomen did trying to save the series from Moore's awfulness later on. Too bad that it was too little too late. It would be nice to get a real relaunch of the book with BKV on hand as a consultant or something. I know he's got 3 different ongoing series right now, but it seems like his…

Yeah, Whedon wasn't at his best in his arc, but Terry Moore flat-out ruined the series. Between that and reading the collected first volume of Strangers in Paradise and absolutely hating that, I don't understand why the guy has an audience.

It's a good read. It's nothing close to the level of the best Runaways, but it's fun.

Yeah, there are a couple of winning jokes but overall I did not like that movie much at all.

I guess we can agree to disagree on that. I'll give you "Call Me", but anything else is up for debate in my book. Of course, I was about 3-7 years old when Blondie was at their peak, so I wasn't there for Blondie like I was for No Doubt's.

I was gonna take issue with the idea that this album, which all involved in the roundtable is middling at best when taken as a whole, "eclipses the records that The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, and the other heavyweights of the ska revival were putting out around the time."

I bought this album when "Just a Girl" was starting to take off, so like, January? February? I remember the clerk at the record store asking me "Do you like this album" as I bought it. I replied, "Well, I like 'Just a Girl' but I haven't heard the rest." And he said, "Oh, because most people return it."

I mean, was Blondie really all that great? Didn't they have exactly the same image problems (oh, there are actual band members? "Blondie" isn't just a code name for Debbie Harry?) and middling record problems (great singles and uneven full albums) as No Doubt?