There's a torrent floating around of audio sketches rejected from the albums. Brand new shit (with a fair number of clunkers for obvious reasons).

"I don't like darkies!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha… Who does?"
"Now then, Mrs. Scum….."

And it isn't the greatest example of nonsense in Python. That's Chapman as the general screaming his head off during the end credits at the end of series two.

The version of that sketch performed in a live show (Was it at Drury Lane? I think it showed up on the Dead Parrots Society tape) was so much longer and funnier than the one in the show. The list of victims is hilarious and Cleese has this extended cross-examination - with Palin confessing repeatedly while Cleese…

I only picked that particular volume because the cover image was so strong. I love the entire run of books and wish to God he'd keep making them.

Keep in mind, fellas, that I put Sandman right at the top of the "Hall of Fame" category. Best of the best of the medium. I have criticisms of the work, but that in no way diminishes its status in the field. Plenty of Sandman is still great.

Hey, I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

The original title for the category was "Artsy Fartsy", and some of the stuff in there is pretty avant garde, let's face it. Not work I'd set up for the general public's taste.

No apologies necessary. I'm laughing.

Dude, I'll email you my password so you can get started on that.

I changed the genre heading on the website (it's too late for the video). Thanks for the feedback!

It's borderline.

Oh, and as far as International is concerned, I get your point. It was along the lines of, there's so much of those artists I've never read, including about ten thousand manga books, that a lot of the selections there are perfectly random. I wouldn't know how to categorize them and would feel bad leaving them out…

I probably should have gone with my original title for that section - Fantastic Worlds. Stuff that's in a universe beyond our reality. It's supposed to encompass magical realism and science fiction (which I found less material to work with than you would have expected). My bad. Problem is, there came a point where…

Well, like I said, it's decent for what it is, but I wouldn't go around recommending it to new readers without serious caveats.

It's also uneven because Gaiman's plotting and pacing are frequently terrible, he can't write a decent ending to save his life and DC kept shoehorning in shoddy fill-in artists.

And CancerVixen and Cancer Mom and Stitches. Cancer for everyone! I left off AIDS Strip USA because it's so dated. Now that you mention it, I forgot to add Mother, Come Home, dammit.

I generally stayed away from licensed material, but you're right. The ducks should be on there. Argh!

I already have something like nine works by Moore. I think he's there more than any other individual. The superhero stuff is obviously just a representative sampling. I already feel bad leaving out John Byrne entirely (I had a real internal debate over whether to include Next Men).

Yeah, much of Sandman doesn't hold up. It's very uneven. It's the poster-child for "breakthrough-comics-for-the-time", but it's been far surpassed since. That's part of the reason I did the list, because people tend to gravitate toward the stuff they've heard good things about, and there's so many greater treasures…