Nimrod is probably too long of a record for Green Day, but Warning is definitely my least-favorite album of theirs. Not including the 2012 trilogy, of which I gave up on after ¡Dos!

I was already on the verge of dropping Uncanny Avengers just because I wasn't being entertained, but after this issue my mind is made up. Remender's version of a widescreen superhero title is too weird and just…icky for my taste. That sort of thing worked well for a book as dark as Uncanny X-Force, but it doesn't in…

One of our friends gave our 7-year old daughter A Spell for Chameleon as a gift this year when she heard our daughter liked fantasy books. My wife and I, both nerds with fond nostalgia for the series, went "Yeeeaaaahhhnoooo, we aren't going to be reading this as a bedtime story to a 2nd grader." The irony here is that…

Yup, even Xxxenophile is less "Oh, I feel like a creep for reading this" than most of Anthony's stuff.

Let's remember that Heinlein was writing in the 50's and 60's, while Anthony was writing from the 70's onward. I'm not saying that excuses Heinlein (he was pro-fascism, too, don't forget), but the social more were very different during his lifetime than during Anthony's.

Even Sum 41 sounded good next to the next wave of New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, and (uuuuurrgh) Simple Plan.

At least as a ska douche he wouldn't have been like all the other nu-metal kids in high school.

Thank you, @avclub-991c1161618c95bc94d3e7508c0a3d30:disqus for clarifying this section of the argument so I didn't have to.

Where can I click the "dislike" button for this comment? Saying that Blink was musically better than NOFX just tells me you probably haven't listened to a lot of NOFX post-Ribbed. Just the fact that NOFX did The Decline pretty much invalidates you. Travis Barker's skill on the drums doesn't make up for Mark and Tom's…

Were you at the Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park screening, too? \m/

Pretty sure there was not.

Pretty sure there was not.

This is the post where I give props to Marah Eakin and Steve Hyden for including Baroness' Yellow and Green on their lists.

This is the post where I give props to Marah Eakin and Steve Hyden for including Baroness' Yellow and Green on their lists.

What from Point of Morrow, besides "Simple Song" and "The Rifle's Spiral", holds up to anything from their first two albums and makes the album warrant inclusion on a best of the year list? I'm not saying it's a bad album, it's actually pretty solid, but it's not great by any stretch.

What from Point of Morrow, besides "Simple Song" and "The Rifle's Spiral", holds up to anything from their first two albums and makes the album warrant inclusion on a best of the year list? I'm not saying it's a bad album, it's actually pretty solid, but it's not great by any stretch.

That album elicited a shrug from me.

That album elicited a shrug from me.

So let's give her some kudos. Good job, Genevieve!

So let's give her some kudos. Good job, Genevieve!