@avclub-077634601aceeca8f23d118414476e0d:disqus Yeah, I think the biggest thing for me was that the school library had every one of his books on the shelf, and they were all worth a decent amount of Accelerated Reader points, so I read 'em all. Once I realized that he was batshit crazy, I quit buying anything, and…

The Kingpin was really good, but Elektra was rather pointless and that playground fight scene was just embarrassing for everyone involved. Still, it was fine, nothing special but not the terrible thing it's been made out to be.

Why not "Why YA?"

Thinking about it, I think there might have been a standalone thing and then the trilogy? Or the standalone was a prequel? I'm not wikipediaing either, more out of laziness than anything. But yeah, those and (embarrasingly) Orson Scott Card were pretty much my sci-fi havens in middle school.

Oh man, those were great when I was 12. I think I read them before I knew what War of the Worlds was, so I thought the writer was just coming up with things. I think there were four, though?

@Scrawler2:disqus That is really fascinating. While there's a cultural politeness(?) to southerners, we still swear plenty, and I don't think that people here would freak out at someone saying "fuck" to mean sex. It's just not something that's said. We say "getting laid" or "doing it" or just "having sex." Fuck's…

@avclub-31d26c38cc0f800eee41f8aa3256a874:disqus Go see Drive.

@Scrawler2:disqus Yeah, that is what I was talking about with "fuck." Didn't mean to go all provincial, but that's just so freaking weird to me. Most of my social circle have sex on a semi-regular basis, but I've never heard someone just talk about getting fucked or fucking someone. Not even among the douchebro types.

@avclub-04e0ee7f57cb99fce8677b2f946c35af:disqus …Geoff Johns? Is that you?

Toss in news and journalists and you've got me. I've had a twitter account for four years and I think I've tweeted six times, all in response to a question or something.

Maybe it's just me, but I've got a sort of halfway theory about using recent music on TV shows. As I see it, you've got about a ten-month (maybe less) window from when the song breaks where it feels natural to use it in a show; for a few years after that, it's going to feel like trying too hard. Imagine a show today…

Dude, this site covers 2 Broke Girls, Big Bang Theory, and a whole bunch of other shit in exactly the same way they cover this. There's really no favoritism happening here.

@S.Earl Oooh, ok. I thought you were saying they were unbelievable.

Eh, ignoring is the same thing as retconning far as I'm concerned. Continuity is the ugliest word in a comic fan's language, so as long as writers don't give a shit, I don't give a shit.

Man, I really want that Edgar Wright Ant-Man thing to happen.

What are your problems? It's my second favorite X-men thing (after Peter Milligan's X-Force/X-Statix) and outside of the understandable art problems, I think it's pretty great; certainly not something I'd describe as having "serious problems."

It hasn't been? I know Nightcrawler's dead now (right?) but I feel as if that had to go away. Maybe it's just been ignored.

That thing was terrible. Wasn't it just six issues of the JLA completely failing at saving people? Man, JLA was really bad there at the end, and I'll defend the Joe Kelly stuff.

Oh man, was he the one that wrote that completely inexplicable Repo Man stuff in Superman? And maybe something with Gog?

Hannah, Shoshanna, Jessa, Marnie.