So, you haven't actually read the oral history that this post is about. Good. Cool. Great.

Might be the same picture. Gossip is that Buster Scruggs is a film they've been trying to make for some years, but couldn't make within the confines of the film industry.

Uh, maybe read the linked article that this post is about instead of jumping down my throat, you braying nitwit.

Tell that to Alexander Smith and Kyoko Higo.

So it's like Hit & Miss, but with a cisgendered protagonist

It used to be comically bad though- FF7 was 'localized' by like three guys, who answered inexplicably to the IT department at Squaresoft's American office.

Less an explanation, more a mea culpa from the scenario writer who admits that he didn't really understand that some people find that kind of stereotypical comedy offensive.

The running theme though, especially expressed by the Triumvirate and First of the Fallen, is that he gets by via his wits and by manipulating people, rather than through command of magic alone. This also comes up in The Trenchcoat Brigade and Books of Magic, where he's stacked up against figures like Mister E and…

Probably not. Or else they'd do the smart t hing and just adapt Dangerous Habits.

It works because it's a very specific idea for a character- and to be honest it caves in near the end because they started giving it to people who had no idea how to preserve that tone or that context. Personally I thought everything from Azarrello on didn't really work- his idea of John was way more violent and toxic…

It's a lack of specificity- that and the natural Comic Book tendency to make stories bigger than the last one while still trying to modernize it-

I think it's a performative act of self-harm, you know, like a cry for help.

She did the same for Sarah Palin, deliberately taking steps to ensure that Palin was comfortable and safe during her SNL episode, and I don't think Trump is more of an existential threat to America than Palin would have been.

Arguably this overestimation of the integrity of Late Night goes back to the Tonight Show succession conflict after Jimmy Carson left, but the real answer is much stranger.

Ces's version of Sally Forth would have fit right in with 30 Rock and Community on NBC.

Actually, Jughead is asexual now. At least in the Archie Comics universe.

I don't think anyone even knows how to write Hellblazer anymore. This latest reboot (The third so far, I think?) is the closest it's come since Warren Ellis was writing it, but that's because it's leaning really hard on reintroducing Merc.

At the time it seemed like it could work. Keep in mind, this was back when NBC was showing Hannibal.

It's that he's a Welsh dude doing a generic British accent. I think it really undermines the character, who is supposed to be a sort of magic spiv and not-that-good magician. There's no class consciousness to the show or his take on the character.

It's the end consequence of putting the guy behind American Psycho: The Musical behind Archie. His work on the comics has been really, really solid though so I'm cautiously optimistic.