Almost certainly true, but I doubt they shared much of that information with pop culture outlets.

I think it depends on how the multi-cam is done. Sometimes, the rhythm and pacing are just off (probably because there's so few people left who know how to do them). Like with "Ground Floor", there was an awful lot of unnatural "Speak punchline then pause for audience reaction." BBT, for all its faults, doesn't really…

We talked about this some in the West Wing article last week, but yeah, they just built Vinick up as too unbeatable. WW wasn't the kind of show to say "Our heroes faced impossible odds, and, well, the odds won."

As I recall, he lived pretty hard for a while. A lot of the "Leo is a recovering addict" stuff was painted from memory…

It's also really strange because, right up until the 7th season, you can make a pretty compelling argument that Spencer/Leo was first among equals in that cast.

Of course, a lot of that "decline" wasn't really known to the outside world until the late '80s.

I personally don't remember it, but The Americans paints a pretty vivid portrait of that paranoia (and uses the Sting song!).

That's…a great question. A quick search indicates that the idea for Terminator started germinating in 1981, the same year DOFP came out…

Was it the disease or the symptom, though"? Maximum Carnage and X-Cutioner's song had already turned Marvel into a maxi-crossover dystopia.

Outside of the book, it matters, too, since Alex Ross kinda hates the X-Men.

It gets a little too Alex-Ross-score-settle-y, but there's like, 3 brand new ideas/interpretations each issue, and that's rad.

"I didn't actually read the story, but it seemed as if Bendis did his homework for the whole "Death of Hank Pym" idea and really milked valid potential impacts."

I will say, though, that I don't like any implication that Gwen was the one true love of Peter's life and that he's already going to be secretly unhappy without her. In the Great Final Act of Marvel Comics that will never come, Peter Parker gets to be happy, dammit.

Yeah, I viscerally rejected it at first, because fuck them for killing Peter Parker, but damned if it wasn't an entertaining way to spend 24 issues.

Not exactly- DEEP BREATH-

It's because it's one of the rare examples where the story really justifies the gimmick- such that the gimmick kinda transcends into a stylistic choice.

I think once the novelty wears off, I really have to question the point. By the end of the first mini, no one even had distinct personalities anymore, they were just fully verbalized zombies.

"Honestly, it still comes off as the only reason he *isn't* sexy is that he's in a wheelchair"

"NOBODY in any of the comics ever talks about how Wonder Woman has big boobs or anything like that"

"Rather than point out how funny it is to watch conversations where people are being really liberal on one point and horribly anti-liberal on another one, I'll just say "Fine, then Barbara Gordon counts.""