Zero: Yeah, I'm just starting to look into that. I don't think that completely undermines its value, though; you couldn't find a work more self-serving and full of misrepresentations than Churchill's WWII history, but that doesn't mean it's not incredibly valuable and worth reading.

I didn't say Sgt. Rock comics counted as WWII research. I said I'd been doing a lot of WWII reading, and the comics are about WWII. But thanks for mentioning that and not the exhaustively researched books by Liddell Hart, Nevitt Dupuy, and Vollman that I also mentioned reading.

I'm not saying that you people who don't like "Hunger Strike" are out of your goddamn minds. But I am saying something very, very similar to that.

I like David trying to save that terrible joke by over-explaining it.

For overall histories, Liddell-Hart's "History of the Second World War", Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", Weisberg's "A World At Arms", Rottman's "War in the Pacific" series, John Keegan's "The Second World War", and Churchill's exhaustive if biased history.

Hey, before it was 20 paragraphs! I'm getting better!

Yeah, I wonder how I'll feel about it on revisiting it sometime in the future. I have a feeling, at the very least, that the bookends will bother me more than they did on initial viewing.

I think it's a goddamn masterpiece, but I'm well aware that it's incredibly divisive. Plenty of people whose opinions I respect agree with you, though I'll never understand why.

See, I always think of Amy Yasbeck as "the female lead on 'Wings'" and Crystal Bernard as "the actress who sang fundamentalist anti-evolution songs when she was a kid".

I almost — ALMOST — used the "thumbs up" edit as the image for this review. It was a tough choice.

I'm not saying I don't like "Pre-Natal Pageant" — in fact, I think it's a very good sketch. It was just released at a time when child beauty pageants were less media-saturated, so I think that now, with ongoing cable series about them which are much more horrifying because they're real, it's lost some of its punch.

Man I love that song.

Fargo isn't really a suburb, though, nor is Minneapolis. And Marge doesn't live in a suburb; she lives in a rural area.

No, I've seen it, and that's a pretty good example of taking it about as far as TV can take it (it never, EVER would have been aired in the U.S.). But its very stature as an outlier, the fact that it generated so much hatred, kind of reinforces my point: you can get away with more in print, where there's no ratings…

One reason I lamented the loss of the 'zine is because it doesn't have the same impact. The format of the website is the reviews (which are all sincere and straightforward) mixed with the occasional strip. The zine, on the other hand, exiled all the reviews to the back, and the first 30 pages or so were nothing but…

For the record, it is written by a gay man, though by all reports an extremely good-natured, not at all angry one.

If only they'd shown him drinking some fruit punch.

My comment was not out of nowhere. Go anywhere that libertarians hang out — and the internet is sick with them — and you'll hear tons of low-income security guard types bitching about socialism and confiscatory taxation and the like. Ask them why, and they'll give the same answer Dan the Security Man did: because…

When I was watching the preview, I thought, well, if nothing else, Grace Park in a bikini will go a long way towards keeping it on the air. Now, if only they'd gotten Yunjin Kim from "Lost" instead of Daniel Dae Kim, and put HER in a bikini as well, then you'd really have something.

Actually, the hook is that one's a prosecutor and one's a defender, but they both got fired for gross negligence, and now they just sit on opposite sides of a park bench begging for spare change and berating one another.