It's a pretty good story, actually. Im six months behind, reading it (that is, both Captain America titles, Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson) in trades, but so far it's up there with the Ed Brubaker's run for me.

Not multiple showrunners! As Sandman had one writer behind it, so does a TV series need a single guiding voice,

I'm a huge fan of both those directors, and of Slither), and I'd agree there's some common… DNA… sorry, I don't think it really hits either of their level. Still, I liked it.

I suspect that the Av Club advance review timing is based on how early the networks provide the episodes to critics, and when any agreed-upon embargos end. Starz may have it a wider window to help build word-of-mouth, and not feared an advance backlash when the initial reactions have been generally excellent.

(it probably helps that nobody knows shit about what Spotify is doing beyond ripping off musicians.)

I give you guys shit about your tech news, but this one is a real improvement.

But what do I do if I don't want to read the badly written novels or watch nineteen hours of director's cuts? Can I just tell people about my last game of Angband?

I loved that movie!

Splice was a fun popcorn horror film. (Disclaimer: I don't actually love popcorn, but you know what I mean.) It's not something I think of often, but it was watchable and well-paced, and Adrien Brody elevated it a bit.

More than any other, this is the comment that ensures I'll see this film.

A stuntman flies through a scene, his wires dragging a cameraman through the set behind him. The camera turns to a stoned production assistant, who panics, improvises, and punches out the assistant director, breaking two of her own fingers in the process.

I love this kind of scene. Played for laughs or tragedy, or preferably both.

I have seen both Kill List and High Rise and recommend both. I enjoyed High Rise more, and it's probably a more broadly satisfying movie for diverse audience tastes. By which I mean I watched Kill List with my wife and our brother-in-law, both film fans and on board for a lot of the same stuff I enjoy, but I was the…

I am sometimes concerned about the depth of Seinfeld apocrypha many AV Club commenters can draw on at a moment's notice.

I once bit into a whole jalapeno that turned out to be filled with pepper juice. I saw it split open down the side and squirt the juice directly into my eye like a weaponized grapefruit, and then I couldn't see anything out of that eye for about a minute.

A friend of mine cut habaneros, washing her hands after as she normally did after doing kitchen things. Apparently, this was not as thorough as she gave it credit for. She then put her contact lenses in her eyes.

You're talking about Rom: Spaceknight, I assume?

Which is gonna make it kinda weird if/when they try to have Sebastian Stan take over the role, but he'll still have at least a few features left on his nine-film-contract.

They were fantastic.

I wasn't really privy to the fan reactions to it at large, but I quite enjoyed it at the time.