I'm pretty late to the Pokemon evolution discussion, but wasn't it established in the show that a Pokemon might not necessarily WANT to evolve? That always seemed to be a key reason it was "evolution" and not "metamorphosis" or something. I think Ash's Charmeleon decides that's the right form for it, and it doesn't…

There are even plot holes in just the extended preview! Bruce calls his employee at WayneCorp Metropolis and tells him to evacuate the building. The camera pans to show said employee staring at the world engine as it unleashes holy hell on Metropolis—why was this guy waiting for Bruce to call? Why isn't he already…

You know, that shot of Martha coming up short against the pistol's barrel as her pearls are strung over its back is a nice image: evocative, iconographic, and almost shocking in its implied violence…then Snyder just ramps right past that shit to show the pearls over the pistol from like four more angles and throws in…

Del Toro!

Just like Robin Hood and Frankenstein, I figure we'll never be more than about five years on either side of a Tarzan movie.

*Immi-gants!

Also, you should win stuff by watching!

I actually read a punch-line or two in that strip, although they're jet black. The first, which is pretty easy, is the irony between PP saying "I'll always be funny looking" right before "I think I'm going to cry again," a situation that really isn't funny. The other punchline, the one that makes me look at this strip…

I revisited this recently and found it isn't so much a sequel of NY as a reboot, hitting all the same notes almost point for point. I think the most incredible plot point to be repeated is the part where Snake doesn't know what to do, so he LITERALLY JUST SITS DOWN AND WAITS TO DIE. What the fuck, Snake? What the hell…

On the flip side, being asked to love something you really don't care about, and then when you're not enlightened it's not that it just isn't for you, it's that "Oh, you just didn't experience the RIGHT episode/song/book, but really you'll love this next one." My girlfriend LOVES the SHIT out of this 4 hour morning…

Hey buddy, didja get a load of the NERD?

The Kenosha Kid?

There's a blog add on this page that says "7 Worst Human Foods to Never Give Your Dog."

Why are the A.V. Club authors rewriting the site into clickbait?

I too read it for a writing class and that's a shame that the class rebelled against reading it, there's a lot to love in that collection. I would say it's overall of very high quality, but there are some annoying bits that can really stand out and are hard to get past. Plus, didn't the HA!'s go on for like six…

I think it's kind of a balancing act, and depends on what you want. If you aren't working with a basic central thesis for the book then it moves from being an artistic product to a commercial one. The connection should be loose, but by grouping the stories together they should form a basic statement on a broad…

I read "Birds of America" and while each story was pretty great taken on it's own, I felt like it suffered one of the pitfalls of short story collections—where you realize the author only really has a handful of tricks they use over and over. I'm sure all those stories were fantastic in individual magazines and…

"Together, they just might save the world."

…Shari's?

You didn't have to.