'We Didn't Start The Fire' was one of the first songs I fell in love with from hearing it on the radio (I was 10 when it came out). I knew all the lyrics phonetically long before I knew what any of it was referring to!

That article is worth it. Some interesting artists I haven't and haven't heard of before. Plus a lot of crap too.

No need to get so defensive! My comment came across in the exact opposite manner I intended. I wasn't shitting on hip-hop. I already own a lot of those albums you've listed. I used to listen to Public Enemy and Beastie Boys a lot. I've been collecting music for 20 years; I read music sites and magazines and 'best of'…

So why are you commenting on this site if you don't read the articles? Because if you read that article then you would have heard of them. Ispso facto.

I'm not a big hip-hop listener. I tend to prefer music that's evocative and transportative, rather than music than is 'in the now', where you have to pay close attention to the lyrics to get anything out of. I picked up Yeezus last year because everyone was talking about it, and I thought it sounded interesting, if…

RTJ2 was just ranked (#2 I think?) in the best albums of the year on this very website, so…

I came for the purty gurls in the promo pics, and stayed for the amiable atmosphere. And yeah, Young's death was a real bummer.

Why can't you defend it? It's a well-made show. liking something that's terribly made would be a guilty pleasure. This is just a fun show.

It's not just the female characters that suffer that. I just read an article on Bleeding Cool about Wilson joining the Marvel writers retreat and signing an exclusive contract (and BTW yay! for that), and the commentors were comparing here worth to Kelly Sue DeConnick. It was sad.

It's the sense of possibility that I love about the new characters. Their fate doesn't feel determined, like it does for most of the A-list characters.

I thought Doomed was pretty solid as far as crossovers went. It was too long, as they always are, but it covered a lot of ground.

Lazarus and Pretty Deadly were the two I noticed missing.

My underrated comics of the year:
Inhuman (another Soule joint, natch). The bungled launch crippled this book's chances, but it's something you don't see very often these days: a large scale, old-fashioned superhero soap opera with a cast of colourful new characters, that is also for the most part disconnected from…

Why does one Marvel have to be better than the other? It's not as if there isn't room for more than one (or two, or fifty) female heroes on the stands.
Ms Marvel is obviously an important book and deserves all its plaudits. But Captain Marvel the book is significant in it's own way. I'd hate for female superhero books…

Lemire and Sorrentino's Green Arrow was street-level superhero comics at their very best.

I've never even heard of that #1. That song isn't too bad, but I don't see how it's much better than any of the 'girl grunge' groups of the early-90s, like Babes In Toyland.

Thanks for the rec! I just had a listen to Bestiary, and I'm loving it.
Now I just need to decide if I want the mp3s for $12, or fork out $40 for the vinyl.

No, I meant more like a general 'sometimes people can surprise you/always keep a diamond in your mind' sort of statement.

Oh well. I wouldn't have thought the star of Not Another Teen Movie would make the perfect Captain America, yet here we are.

Watch her in Breaking Bad. That might convince you otherwise.