Such as?

The Second one also had a really good villain, played by William Sadler. No Gruber, certainly, but Sadler had a cold efficiency down pat.

McTiernan most underrated? Predator, Die Hard, Hunt for the Red October? That is a STUNNING three-film run of movies that I will watch any part of, any time they are on, for any amount of time.

He thought the plot was dumb and the characters too stock, which is….strange, given that its constructed in such an outstanding way.

Holy shit everyone is on this train.

The fake receptionist who was clearly a Huey Lewis impersonator?

That chocolate bar thing! I can see the Karl being a dick, and the reporter stuff and the Agent Johnson stuff being in the script (it's just sharp, prickly writing), but WTF, where on earth did that chocolate bar thing come from? As I kid that drove me wild, because it related to me so clearly.

Better than the scene where McClain is picking glass out of his feet and telling officer Reginald VelJohnson what to tell his wife if he doesn't make it?

McClain also gives Gruber as "Bill Clay" (and what great accent!) an unloaded gun, which he later rubs in his face, but there is absolutely no way an NYC cop would give a panicky civilian a loaded automatic in that kind of situation, so, again, even the strange "plot armor" decisions make a massive amount of sense.…

Jesus christ, that's great! Really awesome sample of that deep groove. Good stuff to listen to at work.

You're talking about a legal subpoena within the realm of courts. The right hand has nothing to do with the left.

Stuart Wilson! That guy was a minor-league JT Walsh for a roughly similar period of time.

War Zone was great. Ray Stevenson isn't playing the Punisher with a ton of depth, but he's certainly a massive, terrifying PRESENCE who seems like a thoroughly wrecked human being as well.

What exactly happened/did happen in that Jacksonville park chapter? Was he attacked or was that the beginning of him cutting/hurting himself? Or was his mother involved?

His dad was pretty good though! C'mon Song to the Siren is incredible!

If Charlies Willeford wrote TV? Damn, I'm sold.

I had no idea on his politics, but that makes a HUGE amount of sense. Also reveals a bunch about his amazing Captain American run. Makes the Scourge sub-plot make sense as well.

The art was very 80s and very flat, and it wasn't a 'big' story. But Squad Supreme had character death, accidental suicide, accidental mind control, and Superheroes deciding the fate of free-will/criminal activity in a post-mega super disaster. Food Riots, Nighthawk (batman expy) teaming up with Lex Luthor expy…

Not often you get a NIck Lowe/Elvis Costello reference on the front page of a MAJOR comic that fully fits RIGHT?

Mazzuchelli….now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time…