I should clarify that I don't regard the lack of subtlety as a downside. Spencer does come off like he's a bit too pleased with how clever he's being, but his books have generally been a good time.

I can already see the issue where the "Captain America" part of the logo is blocked out by a word balloon reading "FIRED!"

Sam Wilson was a werewolf in a couple of the recent comics and nobody noticed. I was really expecting more outraged think-pieces about the depiction of a noble black man as a ravenous beast.

Spencer isn't too subtle. He's also writing Sam Wilson's Captain America book, and that's rather explicitly about how Sam, as a black guy, inhabits a very different America than Steve ever did.

I suspect that if Trump were to somehow win the election, this positions Steve for a unique period of commentary on American politics. I think it was David Willis who mentioned that whenever a Republican has gotten into office for the last few decades, Steve always ends up putting the shield down for a while and…

It's definitely in line with his love of the last-page shocking reveal. He's the guy whose first issue of Ultimate X-Men ended with a page where Kitty Pryde said to the reader, "This is the story of how I became the most wanted and feared terrorist in the United States."

Me too. Harry looking like a generic-ass British/Irish teenager is hard on those of us who quite resemble such.

I got into a lot of arguments about it. A lot of people were ignoring broad swaths of the game to serve a thesis that it was poorly written/toothless/cowardly/what-have-you.

"We're on a slow, painful, inexorable slide towards betrayal and murder! Huzzah!" [waves turkey leg]

I absolutely could not care less about "Game of Thrones." Books are unreadable, show's a Ren-Faire-flavored march to the grave.

As far as I know, the sum total of it that is known is that he was "creepy" at Jen Kirkman, although she's never said outright that it was him, and they've since talked it over. She's been very clear that he did nothing harmful besides "being creepy."

I have always been fond of "Are there any openings in the lunatic fringe?"

Anybody who wants their Kickstarter to succeed over the next few years should offer a $100 donation incentive: we'll let you kick this 50-year-old thinkpiece writer in the face in mid-sentence.

Louis Propaganda Tool is my porn name. Knock it off.

Not in the current comic, which makes me want to shake Buffy like a developing Polaroid.

Buffy vs. Willow, in the name of Buffy finally getting her shit together for more than five consecutive minutes.

Actually, yeah, I could go with that. One of the things I started to truly hate about "Scrubs" was how no matter how fucking stupid Elliot and Carla were acting, they'd end up somehow on the right side of the argument by the end of an episode. I could do with JD getting sick of that crap and challenging them to a…

It will be before too much longer.

The InFamous series is unique to the PlayStation and features some of the better open-world games out there.

Is anyone truly innocent in New York City after the virus apocalypse? <nom>