Very glad I'm not a conservative AVC commenter or these would be dark times indeed…

the English city is literally on the move, essentially feasting on other settlements’ resources to keep itself chugging along

Yeah. A country where tens of millions of people are prepared to vote for Trump should be worried, whatever the outcome of the election.

It's definitely appropriate that America is experiencing a wave of pre-emptive nostalgia for him during this awful, awful election campaign. As I saw someone write, people are now realising that with Obama, whatever his faults, there was an adult in the room.

The bat is traumatised and directionless after its loss, until one day it stumbles into a cave full of billionaire playboys…

Inner-city 'election monitor' isn't really an official job.

To be fair, a season focused exclusively on the blood-stained bat lying in a field full of corpses couldn't be worse than the fucking farm.

Death by baseball bat is certainly a "big league" murder.

Um, phrasing.

It has tremendous hate in its heart.

This seems like a missed opportunity for an online poll to choose the victim, like the equivalent of what DC did back in the day with 'A Death in the Family'.

#MLV223GA

Honestly, I got kind of sick of Chick's cameos in all those Left Behind movies.

Hey, Moloch blood-cultists can be good patriotic Americans too.

But perhaps his worst crime was hogging all the credit for his comics and screwing over Jack Kirby.

Aside from just being stupid and funny, I think this speaks to the general Halloween anxiety around having to explain your 'clever' costume. Is this thing you find funny actually recognisable to other people? Is it too niche? Will you spend all night explaining it?

He's got training, sure, but it's bad training.

So clearly the White House needs to improve its security, if these comedians keep wandering in.

Wrong!

Murray was in the White House to receive his Mark Twain Prize For American Humor from President Barack Obama