Christ yes, even the Heinlein libertarian utopias, while better written and more entertaining than Rand (granted so are the instructions on an airsick bag) are still so relentlessly smug and self righteous and self absorbed. Fuck off John Galt, we're better off without you OR Lazarus Long.

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."- John Steinbeck

whoops. lol

I agree this was probably not INTENDED to be racist but it is undeniably jarring for modern eyes:

Fifth season was its last unfortunately, but its all on Netflix

An alcoholic insurance investigator, a cheerfully sociopathic thief, a con woman, a hacker and the most violent man in the world walk into a bar...

Its a shame though, that official DC comics policy is that she can never have a happy and fulfilling life or relationship.

Someday, when we are huddled around our guttering campfires in the ruins, getting ready to chow down on a refreshing meal of mutated lizard, people will ask 'Where were you, when the parents of the Anti-Christ announced their foul merging?'

All his critiques make perfect sense. The problem is that the TV miniseries version of The Shining with script by King was mind-numbingly bland and boring TV.

So mark me down as one male longtime comic geek who isn't going to try to defend this bullshit. Even taking Didio's argument at face value, its an appalling argument.

So mark me down as one male longtime comic geek who isn't going to try to defend this bullshit. Even taking Didio's argument at face value, its an appalling argument.

umm Xenia Onatop?

Alan Moore actually covered this in an issue of Swamp Thing when Swampy's human partner Abigail Arcane was arrested in Gotham for um, bestiality with a tree basically, Swamp Thing lays seige to Gotham turning it into a literal urban jungle and kicks Batman's ass up and down the street when the Dark Knight trys to stop…