Why posit a conspiracy when it just wasn't a very good movie? Everyone said it was bad because it had some good scenes but was an hour too long had ponderous, tedious, stretches with nothing exciting going on, and a lead actor who failed to command the screen. It wasn't a horrible movie by any stretch, but it was…

Roy Thomas did a few Elric stories with P. Craig Russel. I never read any of them, but I didn't know who drew them until recently, so now I have a reason to seek them out.

I think ROM wouldn't quite count as "cosmic" in the way it's used here, and in the common parlance. Cosmic stuff, as O'Neil says, is sci-fi that blurs the line because lots of the characters have either magic powers or powers that work like magic (like, the Silver Surfer's "Power Cosmic" has some science handwaving…

The graphic novels started off as standard work for hire. They existed in part to satisfy the talent's demands, but their creative demands, not their financial ones. Some of the later ones were creator-owned, I believe.

Dazzler: The Movie is pretty great, although like a lot of stuff written at the time its feminist politics are sort of creepy. (But compared to the run of comics from the period, it should get points for making an effort.)

Marvel did that a lot during the '70's (and a little in the '80's), and I always found it kind of charming, although I agree that it's not often narratively satisfying. But I like that they wouldn't drop a story even when the financials didn't allow them to continue the book in which it was featured. (The fact that…

You ever read his Man-Thing run? Some failed experiments, but he was doing stuff nobody thought the form could handle (not in newsstand color comics at least).

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Also Kirby's 1970's Marvel output.
As I've said many times, the creation of the Celestials is the absolute zenith of Western literature. It's all been downhill from there.

Woo-hoo! Validation! And I figured no one would ever read this far down!

I believe the internal male anatomy (viz., the prostate) is stimulated when receiving anal sex in a way that it isn't for women. But if the Internet is to be believed, there are plenty of women who dig it nonetheless.

I had a cath when I had surgery a couple years ago. You know what's fun? Rolling over in bed and accidentally tugging your cath tube.

Like @inamine:disqus, I'd suggest getting in touch because you're back in town and need to restablish your social networks. Which isn't untrue. And then you can ask her out some time, or not.

I want to like this twice, once per paragraph.

Heh. That's pretty cool.

Yeah, I think she did say that.

What is she, Pauline Kael?

Here's the only lens you need to understand the show. It's just real life, turned up to about, oh, 14. No one can communicate, no one knows how to feel, and no one tries particularly hard to help anyone (although both Kevin and Father Matt make efforts that are only partially self-serving). The show (very much like…

I am surprisingly gratified by the correct punctuation, finally.

Great swordsman. Doesn't know shit about Superman.
(That's not a critique of the picture.)
Anything, the thing I find horrifying about that scene is that while Bill is making the sandwich he ends up with a little drop of mayonaise on his hand, which he then casually licks off. EWWWWWWW!

Vol. II makes Vol. I much better in my view. Also, the thing is that there's really no story to Kill Bill. It's entirely style over substance. Presumably you, like I, didn't understand that going in, but now that you've seen half of it, you know what to expect.
I tell this story all the time. I saw the first one in…