Tom Brevoort made the point recently that Marvel helps out a lot of comic creators when they find themselves in dire straits, both directly and indirectly. They just don't put out press releases about it or tie it to any PR campaign. Not that Marvel is now or has been in the past a shining beacon of light in the…

THEES COUNTRY EES LIKE A GREAT BEEG CHEEKEN, JUST WAITING TO BE PLUCKED.

Yeah, I recorded RoboCop off of the ABC Sunday Night Movie when I was… nine, maybe? I would watch it twice a week at least, replacing Spaceballs as my constantly-rewatched-movie obsession.

I really, really, really disliked how they wrapped up Sunil's arc with him as an evil genius manipulating everyone to get what he wanted. I'm okay with him playing Paul to some degree and I'm even okay with Paul not fully realizing to the extent to which he's being played, but from a narrative perspective, it left an…

On one hand, fuck yeah, I'm down for anything that even faintly resembles In Treatment and this sounds like it could be really, really good. Plus, you know, I've loved Maura Tierney since the NewsRadio days and hopefully it'll be Luther Ruth Wilson instead of Lone Ranger Ruth Wilson.

I used to record music videos on my VCR. I had a tape expressly for videos and when I watched MTV (or The Box: Music Television YOU Control!) I would have my finger on the pause button at every transition.

Can you imagine what it'll be like when the opening keys of "B.O.B." play? Just thinking about it makes me want to buy tickets, and I'm old!

Yeah, that's about right. I'd probably swap Vol. 3 and The Blueprint 3, and I think the production on MCHG might be better than the production on The Black Album, but close enough for government work.

Saw this when I was four or five and it terrified me beyond belief. Laid the foundation for a unease around puppets for years. This, the transformation of Bill Bixby into Lou Ferrigno, and the shooting scene in Cornbread, Earl, and Me were my personal preschool Holy Trinty of terror.

A lot of weird omissions this year. Really feeling Rabin's absence too.

There are so many things about this sentence that make me sad.

Ray Romano on Parenthood has reminded me of Men of a Certain Age recently, and oh my god do I miss that show. Twenty two episodes, and they are all worthwhile. Andre Braugher is in that too, and it's another worthwhile depiction of black masculinity from several perspectives.

You say that you disagree. What exactly do you disagree with in my previous post? The questions I asked weren't meant to lead you to a specific conclusion; they were tools for you to use in discovering and testing the seams of your beliefs re: hip-hop.

Okay, I'm clearly not getting through to you, so let's try the Socratic method. Here are some thought exercises for you.

WHY ISN'T SUICIDE SQUAD AN HBO SERIES YET?

My question is: if DC wants to replicate Marvel's recent success so badly, why not start at the beginning? Hire a guy with both affection for the characters (all of the characters, not just his personal weird crushes) and the willingness to burn everything down when necessary (cough*Mark Waid*cough) to run the comics…

I'm waiting for someone to realize that Alpha & Omega is a perfect movie pitch waiting for someone to throw $80 million at. Although given how Dredd performed, maybe I've answered my own question as to why no one has made this movie yet.

Wait, Priest and Bright are doing more Q&W? Why wasn't I immediately notified, possibly through goat-transmission?

"More gore for the org" has been in my brain since high school.

Your mistake is that you think that just because people believe in something and it's a powerful force for good in their lives, then it can't have originally stemmed from a greedy capitalist impulse. You think that because I'm pointing out that white people and corporate money have been steering the direction hip-hop…