To be fair, Selina's Big Score is basically a Parker story with a lighter tone thanks to Selina's personality.

Cooke was a master of layouts, in both a design and a narrative sense. His name belongs next to Steranko and Chaykin on the Mount Rushmore of merging incredible design with perfect, natural sequential art storytelling.

Sloop John B is my favorite Beach Boys song, period. Though Wouldn't It Be Nice is probably their best song. I love how its meaning changes over time. When I was younger, I took the lyrics at face value: a young man daydreaming of more time with his sweetheart.

Tell your extrovert friends when you're lonely. Believe me, they'll be happy to help fold you into conversations and social circles that you may be too awkward to self-integrate. I have a few pals who are amazing at this, and they love helping people like us bridge the gap between introverted and talkative.

I'm fortunate enough in adulthood to have made some great, lasting friendships; enough that I'm rarely lonely anymore. I even get along ok with most of my co-workers, but every time there's some work-related social event, everyone gets together and gathers in their natural/social circles instead of work-mandated…

I don't know if an entire Sunday strip can count as a "quote," but Charlie Brown, eating his lunch alone on a bench is one of the best pieces of art of the 20th century. Few people understood how crushingly DULL it is to be lonely like Schulz did.

There's a series of strips where Lucy is looking for "the answers." When she asks Schroeder, "what do you think the answer is?", he pounds on his piano and screams, "BEETHOVEN! Beethoven is IT! PURE and SIMPLE! DO YOU UNDERSTAND??"

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I agree. The last few issues - and the last few pages in particular - were superb. And I did enjoy the whole story, but there were some points along the way (the prison planet, for example) where it felt like Waid got sidetracked by a neat idea and ran with it.

The big difference being that Irredeemable was a generally terrific story that went on for too long, while Injustice is just fucking terrible.

I'd love to meet the guy who played Dak. I'd give him a big "Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting" bear hug and keep repeating, "it's not your fault. It's not your fault."

As someone who hates just about every reality tv series ever (except maybe the original 1900 House,) I cannot overstate how surprused I was at how much I loved this show.

You almost had me fooled with the first paragraph, but the second one gave it away.

That's a good point. The initial T-Rex attack in 1993 is one of the places where the CGI still holds up, and a lot of that is due to how well it's folded in with practical effects.

It'll come back, my friend. It has to.

I hear this a lot, and with a few exceptions I think that's a misnomer. I caught it on tv a week or two ago, and a good chunk of the cgi has not aged particularly well. The difference is that they surrounded the f/x with some decent characters, a solid plot, and terrific camerawork, so your brain readily accepts the…

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Hickman is a terrific architect, but he's a cold, boring storyteller. I'd love to see him plotting a book with someone else scripting.

That's a pretty weak defense of Civil War (though to be fair, there are no possible strong defenses of it.) I'll take good not-much-happened over bad buncha-stuff-happened stories any day of the week.

My mistake.