Funny, I was thinking of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter, along with Robert E. Howard's Conan, but you're right — the body horror and weird insect creatures are reminiscent of that other, creepier Burroughs too.

I remember that Harris controversy. Sometimes you just have to separate the art from the artist, as difficult as it can be sometimes.

I thought Prophet was really creative and imaginative. It didn't feel like any comics I had ever read before. It felt… European? Like something you might have read in Heavy Metal magazine, which I could never get into. Even as a Vertigo-loving teenager, those always seemed weird and off-putting to me. And there…

One of my all-time favorite costumes was Psylocke's '80s costume with the pink bodysuit and purple armor plates, mask, hood, and cape over it. It was feminine and sexy without being too revealing, but also practical, protective, mysterious, and made her look like she was: mostly a non-combatant who stayed out of the…

Everything was better when Art Adams drew it, especially cute girls and monsters.

I'm so sad that a Chew TV show (live or animated) is probably never going to happen, in part due to its surface-level similarity to the iZombie show (which I also love).

It pains me that I used to love their "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" album back in 8th grade, when I was first developing musical tastes of my own. My brother and I used to turn the volume down on the TV when we played Nintendo to play cassettes, and "Blood Sugar" was our regular soundtrack to Legend of Zelda. I can't hear…

I think of the James Robinson and Joe Casey runs on Cable as one run, and it was fantastic, especially since there weren't many good books coming out of late '90s Marvel at the time. The Ladronn art is gorgeous. I used to have all those singles and thought about getting them bound into a hardcover, but I ended up…

I met Tony Harris at a convention back in 2001 and gushed about Starman (it's one of my two all-time favorite series, along with the Giffen/DeMatteis JL/JLI/JLA), but he seemed bitter and unenthusiastic about it. He implied it was just a work-for-hire gig and that he and Robinson didn't get along the entire time.

Within the last month, I have read and enjoyed:

Lillard was surprisingly great in the first season of The Bridge (and then I didn't watch the second season).

Everyone remembers the cool murder investigation, the awesomeness of Coop, the weirdness of the town, the beautiful women, the supernatural aspects and sordid crime. But a lot of the rest of the show was very soapy and intentionally melodramatic — everyone's secret affairs with everyone else, the occasionally…

That's the only place I've seen it, World Market. It was good, but expensive for the size of the little bottles.

I love legitimate theatre.

Or Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow?

Awww, I like Vanessa Bayer on SNL. She's adorable, and like the rest of the cast, she does her best with the terrible material the writers give them.

No, but he knew Jimmy Johnson too. Apparently Jimmy treated everyone to some kind of extravagant… something… at one of their high school reunions.

My father-in-law went to high school with GW Bailey in Port Arthur, Texas! (Janis Joplin was in their class too. No joke.)

It depends what your sense of humor is like. Did you enjoy The State, Stella, Mr. Show, Comedy Bang Bang, particularly for their absurdity? If so, yes, almost certainly. If you don't like those, then this might not be the show for you. (My wife sometimes puts up with Childrens Hospital, but dislikes all the…

I have nothing but love for Childrens Hospital. Not only did it remain hilarious throughout its run, but it did a brilliant, ambitious job experimenting with different storytelling formats, especially given its 12-minute time slot. It got super-meta without ever becoming inaccessible or weird for the sake of weird,…