His run on Deathstroke so far is really solid gold. I think that sometimes he likes jumbling the narrative just so he can, so the first issue of the run may not hook you, but 3 or 4 issues will.

That is a fine movie.

This movie was fine, but perhaps too reliant on people's expectations of technicolor musicals to really draw me in as a stand-alone work. It got me thinking, though: what is the greatest original movie musical in my lifetime (I was born in 92)? For my money, it's got to be That Thing You Do! And I don't even think…

Stevie Wonder is a great harmonica player, but it's more like Dylan pioneered the "wheezy pile of shit" style and Wonder returned the instrument to its pre-Dylan status.

I like hot dogs in general, but Smith's is the only kind I'm interested in eating more than one or two of at a time. They're best served with chili known regionally as "Greek sauce" at a run-down, cash-only restaurant in the ghetto of Erie named Red Hots.

In Erie, you can get Smith's hot dogs at any grocer, so the fact that we also have a great Wegmans here is largely irrelevant (in terms of hot dog needs).

Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier showed that a lot of interesting stuff could be done with characters who had origins with the same sunny quality as the Silver Age in which they debuted. His characterizations of Barry, Hal, and J'onn are the gold standards for me. (On a related note, how come there hasn't been a King…

Eh, the collaborations with Mazzucchelli are pretty nuanced and pretty masterful.

90% of everything is crap. I think the only problem is that crap movies/"passable movies" are getting wayyyy more expensive to make.

This was probably the funniest half hour of Modern Family in a year, maybe more. One had to wonder if the key to success was the Google Home product placement… nah, just kidding, it was the shock collar bit.

Yep, what impresses me as much as the actual album is how much of a left turn it was. U2 was at the height of popularity and critical acclaim after The Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum, and they came out with this! That's why I'll never fully count them out when they release a new album (even if they force-download it on…

Bruno Mars may not be a guy with a singular creative vision, but dang he's entertaining. His super bowl performance with a good band and danceable music was so much more enjoyable than the hyperspectacles that we've been getting for the last dozen years.

I've always felt this album was quite overrated compared to the first 2 records, but then this article just kept listing incredible songs (with the exception of Kanga Roo and Downs, all the songs mentioned in this article are classics in my mind). This is really the album that made Big Star a cult band, though.…

It's A Wonderful Life is the MVP of this kind of stuff, but let me also throw out both the novel and movie About A Boy, Scott McCloud's Zot!, and the Beatles song "Two of Us" as some of my favorite faith-restorers. The circumstances around the recording of Let It Be really make that song stand out as an example of…

Really one of the best comics of he century, in my opinion. It makes sense that you wouldn't find it great if you detest all superheroes, but Milligan and Allred really walked the razor edge between savage satire and heartfelt storytelling in X-Force (less so in X-Statix, though that book was fun).

I just gave up on Rucka's most recent Wonder Woman run because as good as the even-numbered issues are, the odd-numbered issues are so slowly-paced that I just can't remember enough about what's happened in those issues by the time i get to a new odd-numbered issue to care about the continuing plot. If things get a…

It's too bad, because Yuengling is really perfect for what it is.

Apparently, American bands can still grow pretty heavy fan bases in tiny European countries and play to devoted, surprisingly big crowds. At least that appears to be the business model that 50% of the bands I've discovered through Little Steven's Underground Garage are operating under.

In context, Daltrey is pretty spot on in his complaint that while many modern rock bands are talented, few of them are memorable. For me, the sign of a great song is one that you can hear once on the radio or at a show and hum its tune right back an hour later, and that's pretty rare these days. It's almost unheard…

No Nobel in music, though if there was I'd imagine Dylan would have been a perennial contender. I agree that it's easier to assess a play's quality by just reading it than it is to tell how good a piece of music is by reading the lyrics, chord changes, and melody line, but I think very strongly that plays are better…