They were never meant to be read without music, though. I think the Nobel committee took the music into account, just as I hope they took the fact that plays work best when performed when they've awarded the prize to playwrights.

Dr. Strange is about to get really, really good pretty fast. Never read the 70s Iron Fist, but they sound pretty cool.

Have you ever seen the photos of Dylan and Harrison playing tennis? Some of my favorite pics.

I usually vote pretty libertarian, so there are a bunch of things about Obama's president that I've disagreed with (and some stuff that I agreed with but thought was not implemented as well as it could have been) but it's been a real pleasure to have a president that I can respect as a person (and a leader for our…

C'mon, Jackson Browne should really just become the new Glenn Frey.

Affleck/Garner for some reason really hit me.

I think it's because I've always been really annoyed by Dawkins and wouldn't even bother commenting on an article about him, whereas I really liked Tyson when I was younger and he's just become annoyingly overexposed and rewarded by media attention for some of his more pedantic moments.

I think knowing how things work makes them cooler - but it depends on how you learn. I think that when Tyson was a nascent TV personality, he explained natural phenomena to a general audience in a way that enhanced the wonder of nature. Now (and maybe because he's so omnipresent on twitter, and it's hard to…

I used to love the guy, and I'm glad there are people like him making science fun, but he has gotten pretty supercilious. The actual smartest people I know are not that way. Science is great (I majored in astrophysics) but I think it's OK if some people aren't super into it and they can live a good, fun life without…

Jimmy Fallon is just a symptom; the disease is the media (especially NBC) just giving Trump free publicity and not giving him hard questions/holding him accountable for really bad rhetoric ever. The day after he announced his campaign with his "they're rapists" speech and Today just let him call in and refused to ask…

Not untrue, but that calling-out often happened after there was already considerable online hate for those guys. I think that commentary about Johnny Depp has actually been nicer since he was accused of abuse, which is messed up for other reasons.

Eh, I feel like I've seen it to a lesser degree with (among others) James Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonah Hill, Neil Patrick Harris, Jared Leto, Bono, and Johnny Depp and Will Smith in slower motion (or maybe it's just me that really dislikes Will Smith). I think it's kind of normal for the public to get annoyed by…

Workman is hands-down my favorite. Orzechowski is great, as are Lappan, Bruzenak, Costanza, and Klein (although I think Klein's logo designs are a bit weak compared to other letterers'). Gaspar is great, too, and his logos generally rock. I'll always have soft spots for Simek and Sammy Rosen, as well as Nate Piekos…

I honestly think that DC's launches of new initiatives in the last couple of years have been pretty good, only to lose steam as time goes on because people won't buy weird but good books. Sone of the blame for this lies with DC's marketing, but some part of the failure of the New 52 and DC You is just that people…

But Watchmen was created as a story with a beginning and ending, whereas DC's other characters weren't. Maybe it's not a question of moral bankruptcy, but I'd say it's certainly a question of creative bankruptcy. If DC wants to replicate the success of Watchmen, they can't just re-use the characters. They have to get…

Clint Eastwood's films are not always great, but they are also rarely pure fluff. I think that the fact that you can even have a debate about the meaning of his films means that he's not a conservative propagandist (or any other kind of propagandist).

And Secretary Clinton.

It's weird; I've thought that Kevin Smith is actually pretty good at giving criticism of movies when I've heard him show up on podcasts or whatever. He sewms to know what makes the movies he likes tick and what hampers the movies he doesn't like - but he has no idea how to apply that to his own films, I guess.

Oh, certainly I expect different authors to have different opinions. It just amused me. Shea has some good points, alough my opinion of the book remains pretty high.

Funnily, that blurb on the Omega Men's cover brags about it being a favorite ongoing series of the AV Club.