Jared Kushner.

My love of Friday the 13th movies is not always so easy to intellectualize. They're cheap and trashy and they're not actually scary, but I fell in love with the Paramount Eight as a kid (probably too young, to be honest), and I'll always love them.

A couple years ago I was on a business trip to Baltimore, and apparently it was also some local Brony con, and a bunch of attendees were staying in the same hotel. I was making snarky little internal jokes to myself until I got on an elevator with what must have been a 14-year-old Brony and his early-middle-aged dad.…

Two spikes would be an extravagance!

I'm generally pretty good at articulating WHY I like things, but that doesn't always mean that people will get it. For example, when I tell people how great classic Red Dwarf is, I can sum it up quite nicely. "It's a high-concept science fiction show with low stakes; the third episode is about a character trying to…

What, is he making fun of me?

Is some blind tiger jerking suds on the side??

And he financed the creation of the Scorpion (and hid it for years) and a couple of different Spider-Slayers. I like to think of him as a guy who was once a decent guy and a good journalist who got seduced by the power of sensationalism. Once in a while you see that good man come to the surface (I've heard rumors that…

John Byrne is someone who I agree with a lot of the time (on comic book and storytelling principles, not his awful "colorblind casting is the REAL racism" type of social issues), but Christ, what an asshole.

Yeah, I mean, Stan is arguably the most famous person ever to work in comics, but it's not what he wanted his legacy to be. It's a very American tale of melancholy in the face of success.

I've always found Ricky more grouchy than truly angry.

I think a Pirates of Silicon Valley-style dual-narrative warts-and-all biopic about Lee and Kirby would be amazing, but they'd never go for it.

My wife had never seen or heard of that episode and we watched it just last year, and it STILL gets a big laugh.

It blows my mind that John Stewart is not primary Green Lantern #1 in comics and media. They've had to bump Cyborg up a league (literally!) to diversify the JLA, but the solution's right there, and I always thought the idea of an architect GL was neat.

There was also the nice touch that J Jonah Jameson was a blowhard yellow journalist who'd rip you off if he thought he could get away with it, but he would tell a racist city councilman to take a fuckin hike. It's like, "Even this total asshole draws the line at racism."

Sean Howe's Marvel: The Untold Story presents a pretty nuanced take on Lee. There's also this recurring theme of Lee wanting to break into something more "legitimate" (novels, magazine publishing, Hollywood) but never quite making it.

Steranko's on the Trump train now, though, so this is kind of "one bastard owns another bastard."

Even knowing what the deal was going into reading the Fourth World stuff for the first time, the savagery of the portrayal was really amazing.

If he's meant to be a hologram, where's the H on his forehead?

Perhaps the intangibility of the hologram is a metaphor for the intangibility of memory?