I think Smash Mouth should make a cameo as the band onstage at the prom at the end of the movie. It feels… right.

Better!

SANDMAN (PG-13, 2017): A teenage boy, on the eve of his karate competition, receives a little extra help in both training and in attracting the eye of the girl he has a crush on, from a black-clad, white-skinned stranger who appears in his dreams (Jim Carrey).

Very restrained, very well-researched, typically excellent dialogue. I'm not crazy about the art but it does the job.

I'd watch a version of SCREAM where they replaced all the Ghostface dialogue with passive-aggressive Southern charm.

I actually really enjoy Midnighter's general interaction with people who he has no interest in hurting, like the kid's mom in issue #3 or that team-up with Freedom Beast.

First, gain the rights to Spider-Man. Then publish his book. Then… cancel it.

Dreaming Eagles, Ennis's WWII book from Aftershock
New issue of Spider-Man (Miles)

Revival, Injection, Trees, Mystery Girl, whatever Garth Ennis is doing

…boy, did I fuck that quote up.

"My stepmother died in an otherwise-routine facehugger incident…"

There's a pretty decent episode of "The Cinema Snob" (for values of "decent" that imply you can handle his schtick in the first place) about this movie.

A) Nothing was sacred in our childhoods to begin with, trust me. Tijuana Bibles prove we can't even blame the Internet for it.
B) Please don't give them ideas.

He was. His marriage was falling apart, apparently.

I bought MARLOWE BRIGGS AND THE MASK OF DEATH on Steam and I'm having fun with it.

To be fair, all the best Deadpool writers have lent the character a sad edge, if not an actively tragic one: Kelly, Duggan, Nicienza, Simone.

There's an old horror movie called BLOOD HOOK that was an early effort by Jim Mallon, who'd go on to produce "Mystery Science Theater 3000." It's ostensibly a horror-comedy, about a serial killer who picks people apart with fishing equipment, but several of the murders involve fish hooks going into sensitive portions…

Northstar's probably off having a (second?) honeymoon with Kyle. He'll be back as soon as somebody wants to use him.

Today I learned that "strangle" can mean "to choke," rather than what I'd always thought it meant, which was "to kill by choking."

There seems to have been a shift that many of the critics haven't acknowledged yet. Stewart seemed to save the sharpest, most incisive moments for himself as host, whereas under Noah's tenure to date, Klepper, Williams, and Hasan Minhaj often run away with the show. Wood's coming along as well, and I could stand to…