Whatever else it did (or didn’t,) Avatar gave us “Flight of Passage” at Disney World, one of the very few (arguably the only) amusement park rides that manages to integrate motion and video screens for an immersive effect. The lines for it are always enormous, and they’re worth it.

It’s all relative, of course. I went back and re-read the first 60+ issues a few years ago, and while they’re hardly Grant Morrison or Chris Claremont, each issue delivers a fun adventure with surprisingly strong characterization and a puzzling amount of military/technology trivia.

All of that stuff is true, but at the same time, it's worth noting that those old GI Joe comics are excellent examples of "good things coming from bad sources." Maybe - and I'm not optimistic, but you gotta dream - they'll find some inspiration from those stories. 

Piece of shit

I haven’t seen it since its release either, but I remember chuckling at a moment when the character - in prayer - thanks the Lord for inspiring her to try anal in order to preserve her virginity. 

In one of her one-off works, “Mitch & Amy,” one of the characters learns to ignore the class bully’s insistence on throwing acorns (or something) at him while they walked to school. Eventually the bully stops because he can’t get a reaction out of the other kid. It’s played off as a minor victory until later on when…

At my school, Blume was the next step recommended by the librarian when you finished all of Cleary’s work.

Jessica Lange’s acting talents were on better display in almost literally everything she’s done since, but in this piece of garbage she was volcanically hot, and sometimes that’s enough.

I have no doubt that Hickman could write a very intriguing - yet strangely emotionally cold - story about the return of Uncle Ben. The guy has a knack for properly conveying big ideas with strong story structure... I just wish he’d work with a collaborator who’s more adept at characterization.

Ben Parker is the only Marvel character who stays dead. The “rule” was later amended to include Bucky, and even later for Jason Todd.

If someone's slinging shit your way, are you going to say, "well, it's a pretty small piece of shit, so I guess this is fine?" 

I didn’t mean to imply that Cruz has any charisma, just that motivating opposition voters takes more than just someone to vote against. It helps to have someone to vote for as well. 

Does Texas have a Stacey Abrams? 54% of Texas is getting what it voted for, but 45% of the state is getting the shaft right now. Once everyone gets power and digs themselves out of the snow, they’re going to have some serious new ammunition for the next election, but it's going to take someone more charismatic than…

Isn't he adorable? Lookit him out there, tryin' so hard to be a grown-up. 

In the early 90s, right around the time Zack Snyder was in his mid-20s (when reading Batman comics is still just fine but maybe don’t take them so seriously?) the Batman books ran an event called “Knightfall. ” It was pretty good, but I'm also fairly certain that Snyder took all the wrong lessons from it, including…

Hey, everyone! It's THAT guy! 

I enjoyed Soderbergh’s "cast someone with relevant real world experience" films from that time. 

She was quite effective as an ass-kicking near-mute in Soderbergh’s “Haywire,” and perfectly decent as an ass-kicking near-mute in “Deadpool.” As an ass-kicking person with a speaking role on “Mandalorian,” she was serviceable.

It’s worth pointing out that Stephen Robinson is not doing well here. His style - heavy on synopsis and pointing out insubstantial trivia to the point where it feels like he’s being paid by the word - smacks of someone brought over from io9 (or who reads tons of Germain Lussier’s mediocrity.) It’s no surprise that…

If Miranda Lawson shows up in the last few episodes, I'm going to lose my goddamned mind