Wait — what? When? Jeez. That's a pretty major thing for me to have just missed altogether. Where's Odin's body?

I'm pretty surprised to report this, but I watched Frances Ha twice in two days. Watched it alone on Friday night, then watched it again with my wife the next night. I really loved it. The descriptions I had read (young woman who can't get her shit together grows increasingly irritating to those around her) made me…

Somebody spill about the Sklars — they slag another comedian, I'm told? Who? And why did Dom Irrera almost punch Andrew Dice Clay?

I watched it too! Boy oh boy, it was even worse than what I was picturing. That crazy guy with Christopher Lloyd's voice? What? WHAT?!

That's his usual look, but in the first ish he copied Cap's body. Actually, I believe he was ALWAYS in a copy of Captain America's body, but with a dyed perm — I'm not making that up. He got a fashion makeover early on.

Thinking about SW II now, it really was odd. Beyonder was sort of the protagonist, and yet at least half of the covers showed him menacing superheroes and cackling (which I don't think he ever actually did in the actual issues). Was he supposed to be a scary threat? Or some kind of all-powerful Balki Bartokomous,…

I remember that — Beyonder is wearing a white body sock and he looks like Steve Rogers.

And yet I read SW II a dozen times! I think I was trying to make sense of it. And I'll confess, the weirdness of it sparked with me. Try describing that shit to someone who's never read it. It's bananas!

We were reading Shakespeare, but I believe it was Henry V. I've always suspected that he mainly wanted to see our reaction to the driving sequence.
The "v" was a typo. My browser is so incompatible with Disqus that I can't actually see what I'm typing.

Fair charges all. But the enormous team-up? Toy ad or no, it's precisely what I wanted as a little kid. I can't call it sophisticated, but I had fun reading it.

DP7 is probably the best thing to come out of the New Universe, in retrospect. The concept is STILL a relatively fresh one: what about a reluctant team of superpowered people made up of a truck driver, a retired schoolteacher, a fast-food cook, a doctor, a housewife, a dance student and an abused teenager? Even now, I…

As an eight-year-old, I thought Secret Wars was the greatest thing since indoor plumbing. Finding out as an adult that it's almost universally dismissed as garbage was kind of a shock.

Weirdest thing we ever watched by far was Tarkovsky's original Russian Solaris. Twelvth grade AP english. Why, Mr. McDonald? Why?

The New U! I definitely wouldn't say all, or even most, of the New U worked very well, but I ate it all up, right through the "DRAFT" and "WAR" books. It had something… it was identifiably Marvel, but completely new. It caught my pliable 11-year-old imaginantion.
In retrospect, I really liked Starbrand and DP7 and…

Those are the three besties on MC, for sure.

I kind of know what you mean, but I LOVE that — the "cold" quality. There's a strange, NY 80s art scene vibe chilling down in the back of the first two albums, and once I keyed into that it put all of the quirk in perspective. Flood is a much cuddlier album, but I feel like they lost a little something. Just a small…

Le Roi du Cabbage! You've returned!

My little kids LOVE Here Come the ABCs/123s. And man, if any of you TMBG fans haven't heard "Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work)", you're missing one of their all-time catchiest tunes, full stop.

I don't think they've ever made a worthless album, but the lesser ones are very uneven. Mink Car has its bright spots.

Ooh, I like Mink Car. Lots of good stuff on there, although it's pretty uneven. Wicked Little Critta! Man It's So Loud In Here!