Going with Ween's The Mollusk, although Berlin is a perfect choice.

My very favorite. Simple, funny, and to the point. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It's in the current issue. They're bringing in the two Warpsmith standalones, too.

For what it's worth, I can kind of deal with the $5.99 cover price—did you ever read the Conan the Barbarian "archive" editions that shipped from Dark Horse a few years ago? They'd skimped on the coloring and Barry Windsor-Smith's art was as ugly as it's ever, ever been. They filled in careful hatching and…

BOOOOOOOOOOOOman I wish I'd thought of that.

PSA: You can break pretty much anyone's anything with an expandable nightstick.

Yes and yes. It's actually as much like "Taxi Driver" as "Casino" is like "Goodfellas," although there's not the same disparity in focus between the two (actually, I'd argue that "KoC" is better, although it's obviously not nearly as influential). Anyway, good call.

I suppose if I point out that the studio exec in the video is really obviously biting on Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder I'll also get Twitchslapped.

I'd like to enter Marvin Gaye's silent "E" into evidence as Exhibit A for the prosecution.

Life and death are a seamless continuum.

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised!"

It's a testament to how good this show is that I can think of half a dozen others I like just as much, if not more—"A Clockwork Origin" for a brilliant take on creationism, "300 Big Boys" for pure story structure, "Prisoner of Benda" (easily the funniest episode of the post-Fox years, for my money)…

Noah, fanTAStic point about Borges, whom Gaiman clearly loves (there's a pretty overt homage in the introduction/first story in "Fragile Things," and there are other parallels throughout his work. "Ficciones" and "The Garden of Forking Paths" in particular have fingerprints all over "The Sandman," in that it's a…

Can't find the source on the movie ending (it's one of the gosspier comics blogs) but here's Wein evening the odds on "Before Watchmen:" http://www.bleedingcool.com…

Also: I read somewhere that the coloring in "Watchmen" is meant to be a corrective to the "primary-colored" heroes of yore—that the secondary colors (orange, green and purple) are blends of the primaries and thus symbolic of the more complicated world in which the "Watchmen" characters live. A little stonery, perhaps,…

"(The giant squid was notably removed from theWatchmen film, probably because it would have been extremely hard to make the design not look silly.)"
Worth mentioning: the giant squid was removed from the horrible "Watchmen" movie because Wein always hated it and thought it was too blatant a ripoff of "The Outer…

Nah, you can get it at a comic book shop today.

Poll: does Powers ever get better than "Forever?" I read probably ten volumes of that series and it just got sleazier and sleazier and finally I just had to say, "Okay, I've read one really great story so this isn't a total loss."

Man, come on. Broad Arrow Jack's been part of the League crew since the first volume. He's a teenager under Daddy Nemo and he falls in love with Janni over the course of the last few volumes.

Here is a thing that makes me FUCKING BATSHIT INSANE:
There is a story that remains uncollected in the still-inadequately-collected ten-book "core" Sandman sequence. It's called "The Flowers of Romance" and it's from one of the "Vertigo Jam" huge one-shot things. In the story, Desire allows a servant of his/hers, a…