Oh man, Gun. That game was so much better than it had any right to be. If it hadn't been for RDR, that would still be the best western ever made. I still laugh when I think of Tom Jane as you head towards the final battle on a runaway train and he yells "Welcome to the 'Kill MacGruder Express'! Next stop- ENDA THE…

Yeah, the Joker says this pretty explicitly during the scene where he burns the big pile of money when he points out that, since Batman came along, Gotham "deserves a better class of criminal, and I'm gonna give it to 'em."

Oh I absolutely agree. It was a marvelous switch the first time I read a Jamie chapter and realized that I actually sympathized with this guy who had been, essentially, the classic "villain" of the piece for like 2 or 3 books at that point.

There's definitely a weird tension for me in the Dany chapters, in that very often she seems to be spinning her wheels. That said, I can't skip her chapters as occasionally crazy-awesome stuff happens in them, plus her corner of the plot also has Barristan Selmy, one of my favorite characters. I can't miss out on even…

I agree with you entirely. I recognize it's pointless to complain, but at the same time, I think "offended" honestly isn't the wrong word to use. TOS Kirk was a man of action to be sure, sometimes he made mistakes, to be sure- but he was ultimately someone who was clearly capable of handling the responsibilities of…

Yeah, uh wait, WHAT.

The problem with Extremis is that, while gorgeous and conceptually interesting, it came at the height of the "decompressed storytelling" phase in comics and as such is maybe 2 issues worth of story spread across 6 issues.