I realize the silliness of bringing this up in a zombie show, but this sort of hypothetical complexity is why we don't just let people off the hook for pre-meditated murder if it turns out their victim was a bad guy.

Indeed, the best part of a second season of Gotham will be seeing if they awkwardly walk back all these changes to the mythos and odd retcons.

I think Hickman reads a lot better in trades. I've tried to keep up with this last one on a singles basis, and every one-off issue stretches the thing to such a ridiculous length that I generally forget how his arcs started by the time they wrap up. The recap pages help, but it really fucks up the flow.

I don't really care about the actual teams involved in football, but I sometimes enjoy this column and find the concept of the NFL occasionally fascinating in the abstract.

I'm uninterested in rehashing the ethical argument, but I think you've hit the nail on the head here.

It's a meaningless marketing buzz-phrase that can be applied to any character not actively despised by everyone (those are "controversial" or "divisive").

Control is really good. Nowhere Boy manages to skip the usual structure, which makes it at least halfway interesting.

It's mostly the latter, with a wink at the fact that "time corrects itself" is usually author-speak for "by rights, time travel should have fucked our story beyond recognition, but we didn't want all our main characters to suddenly vanish from existence."

Standard sci-fi rules say that timelines can only be seriously altered when one of the main cast takes a dramatically loaded action.

Veep probably deserves it, though. It's at least close enough that we won't look back and laugh in a few years.

That word likely would have boned me as well.

I remember when they initially stopped hanging out, the stated reason — usually attributed to JM — was that she didn't think it was particularly in character for a woman to be friends with her husband's mistress.

At the end of the day, comics writers are just writers, meaning they're people who get paid to spend a lot of time in their own heads. They're already likely to have at least a few more offbeat opinions than people that tend to crowd-source their thought processes more.
Add to that the fact that if you're famous in…

It really needs to be reiterated: Barbara Gordon is ridiculous pile of non-sequiturs in a cocktail dress. She's a combination of character traits that don't even resemble something that has ever existed in a human being — a rich girl cop's girlfriend who adopts two unofficial hobo roommates and lets them steal her…

This libel thing does seem crazy. Like, how does it go if you're a witness to a crime? Presumably you can testify if you saw a guy kill someone, but say he's found innocent. Does he immediately have a pre-fab civil suit against you? That can't possibly be how this works, right?

Because of the way the scheduling worked, I ended up doing Hiroshima and Nagasaki within two days of each other during a month long trip through Japan. It was one of the most emotionally draining experiences of my life. I was only 32, but I had to sit in the park and feed some birds for a couple hours afterward.

Hell, you could probably get 90% of the original cast to play themselves for a hundred bucks and an all-you-can-eat buffet.

I think a lot of that's going to depend on your ability to truly treat every season as a new start. 24 had a number of problems, but one of the more glaring was that after a while and when you laid out his actual history, it was preposterous to even imagine that a semi-professional organization would ask Jack Bauer…

Just out of curiosity, do you have an example of what you mean? I know very little about British politics, but I thought the show — and Veep, for that matter — do a pretty good job of getting the bare bones in there. Once I figured out who were the party hacks who stand to lose their jobs with a shift in power and…

Yeah, but the good part of that only applies only if you view this as a sequel to Dark Knight Returns. That Frank Miller has been dead for well over a decade.