I had the same thought when I read it. They needed to Ken Burns that thing to do it justice. All they ended up doing was slapping the title on just another zombie movie.

It's been a long time since I've seen it, but if you can get past the cheesiness of seeing people like Robert Reed, Lorne Greene and Sandy Duncan in a prestige drama, it's got some very powerful moments.

Yeah, the whole thing about their use of Marvel as a title for a comic was more just to point out they had a history of using the word and that it wasn't entirely cockamamie that they chose to use a name for their company that was closely identified with a character they did not own and thus was always a copyright…

At least he didn't call his boss a logic-impaired hayseed and state that he lived for tap dancing.

In fairness, Marvel's Captain predated DC picking up the old Fawcett character (who DC had actually sued out of existence decades earlier). And Marvel's (actually Timely back then, but whatever) use of the word "Marvel" as the title of their flagship comic predated Fawcett's creation of the original Captain Marvel,…

"Constantly following Charlie Sheen" is what we old timers used to refer to as "sloppy seconds."

It sounds like Plympton was trying to pull off the same sort of thing that Norman Spinrad did in The Iron Dream, in which he imagined Hitler as a failed politician who turned to writing scince fiction pulp novels. Spinrad's book was thoughtful and a little horrifying, but it sounds like Plympton came up with his…

Well played!

For the rest of the cast, I propose:

This has to be the dumbest "here's why what what I like is better than what you like" article I've ever struggled to read.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. It's been so long since I read it that I forgot it was Nate Grey. Cable was one of the Twelve, then, right? He, Cyclops and Jean Grey were father, mother and child; Magneto and Polaris were opposing magnetic poles: Storm was an elemental, and then there were six others who I've…

Yeah, The Twelve storyline started in X-Factor. Louise Simonson tossed one panel into a story where the Master Mold sentinel had a vision concerning twelve mutants who will determine the fate of the world. When Simonson and subsequent writers seemed disinclined to follow that up, the discussions on letters pages…

I thought that was the best episode of the season so far. Everything that happened felt like part of a well considered plot and there were no "we don't know what to do with such and such anymore, so let's abruptly kill them" moments.

That's Alicia Witt! She was prophesied by the Bene Gesserit as "She who will someday star in every Hallmark Christmas movie (not starring Lacey Chabert)".

That was my favorite celebrity scandal of recent years. In this day and age, it's nearly impossible to come up with a truly original way to outrage the public, but Grande managed to do so.

Back in college in the early 80s, I tried to sell the campus newspaper a dreadfully unfunny comic strip I was working on about lab rats. The editor asked me "Oh, is this like Maus or something?" I had no idea what Maus was, but correctly answered no, not really. The paper passed on my crappy strip, but it led me to…

The reason the internet gets up in arms about it is because, as you say, it's predictable. It's completely lazy storytelling at this point. It's not shocking or surprising or the least bit compelling. It's just getting rid of characters they don't know what to do with in the most tiresome way possible.

I am so fucking over this season's "we've gotta wrap this thing up, so it's time to start thinning out the supporting characters we don't know what to do with" mindset.

I'm from St. Louis, which is up there with Cleveland and Detroit as one of the heartland cities the rest of the nation enjoys taking a dump on. (Though in reality, the rest of the country doesn't shit on St. Louis anywhere near as much as the Lou shits on itself - we are one seriously self-loathing city).

Over the years, the image that most people had of the 60s pretty much solidified into hippies listening to the Beatles while they protested Vietnam. In reality, Percy Faith was selling as many albums as the Byrds and more people liked The Reluctant Astronaut than Easy Rider. Darwyn Cooke's work was one of the first…