What hath runaway political correctness wrought?!

I didn't read the Chronicles of Prydain until my twenties, and just by virtue of that series alone my literary experience as a whole would have been considerably poorer had I excluded it on the basis of where it happened to be shelved.

I read the His Dark Materials books for a class in college and enjoyed them, but haven't ever returned to them to see how well they hold up some years on. What holds up better in my memory was the stage adaptation that played at the National Theatre in London—my class included a 12 day theater tour in England over the…

Hey, it's The A.V. Club! You guys rock!
Eh, maybe a little.

There'll be no accusations /
Just friendly crustaceans!

Already works for me.

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I am both shocked and appalled.

So the mission statement for this game is the opening narration of seaQuest DSV?

As excited as I am for this game, I'm now almost as excited for the inevitable attempts to create a unified fan theory for how it'll fit into the same universe as ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. Which is to say a lot, honestly—both earlier games did a fantastic job at telling really effective and affecting stories…

THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE.

I read the first issue of Princeless and really liked it, though the first trade's still sitting in my TBR pile. I was delighted with the takedown of the phrase "fair maiden" as both a cliche and a phrase with (perhaps) unrecognized loaded connotations.

Oh, rock on—that's awesome news. Though I couldn't make it out yesterday, so I hope my shop still has it!

I keep getting asked by the register jockeys at my LCS about
Lumberjanes because it's on my pull list, and the
best word I come up with to describe it is "charming." Probably damning with faint praise a bit there, but that's also how I described Roger Langridge's work on Thor: The Mighty Avenger and Snarked!—delightful…

Ah. Duly noted!

What prompts additional horrified fascination in me is that there was a 2005 live-action version. As in, someone pitched remaking this movie, in live-action, and a studio went ahead and made it.

Yeah, there's a passing reference in one of the Dark Tower books to Roland having met (or seen, or passed by) the crew that go out after Flagg at the end of Eyes, but unfortunately King never expands on it.

I've been tearing through the new editions of Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo Saga collection from Dark Horse—currently midway through Volume 3—so quickly that I'm already going to need a re-read before the next one's released. It's been more of a struggle to get through the new translation of Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese:…

The world is a little brighter, having lost someone who consistently helped make it a little darker and spookier.

This… this B- is rating is for the Jurassic World logo, right? That's the only way it makes sense.