On Kiko, an already perfect band performed the impossible feat of getting better - and not just a little bit better, but exponentially better. It's an astonishing piece of work.

It's Bendis. After 10 issues, many plotlines will be hinted at, with none of them ever becoming an actual story, while all the characters carry on conversations in all the same voice, and then the crossover, in which she will be seen in the background contributing nothing to the plot. Then Bendis will depart the…

The Wikipedia page has Detective Chimp, but not Rex the Wonder Dog! Those two drank out of the Fountain of Youth side by side and gained magical powers!

People have been picking on sports? Bad people! Sports have such tough going in this society and people ought not pick on them!

Riverport always seemed to bring out the asshole in the audience. I recall being at the Pontfest when Big Audio Dynamite was on the bill, and when they commenced playing "Rush," everyone seated on the lawn spontaneously decided to bomb the folks in the real seats with full (or mostly full) water bottles. Which do not…

Yeah, it was definitely more "for fuck's sake, I'm tired of hearing this" than it was "we must suppress the homosexuals." Disco was so omnipresent by the late 70s that fucking Kansas were recording disco songs ("People of the South Wind"). Despair was setting in. It was kind of like when Nirvana came along in 91 and…

My favorite comic when I was in grade school back in the 70s was Sgt. Fury, and I was eagerly awaiting its 100th issue, as 100th issues were when writers would pull out all the stops and deliver a massive epic of a story. (I was too young to realize that the series was completely out of gas by that point and would…

I had the faith of a little child. I'm like Clarence the angel that way. Thank you for reaffirming that faith.

Disappointingly, only one of them begins with a long, completely off-topic discourse on who makes the author horny. One of Rabin's finest pieces of work.

I'm sure I'm not the first one to point this out, but I'm not going to scroll through 2000 comments to confirm it - the "he" Lyanna is referring to is Robert, not Rhaegar. She was not being held captive in that tower by Rhaegar, but had been placed there for her protection after running away with him. I guess that's…

If the only thing this show had ever accomplished was giving Mulgrew a role like Red, it would've more than earned its keep. The fact that it is so much more than that is a gift from God, who doen't exist. When OITNB started, I half expected it to follow Weeds' downward arc, but this stellar season has put that worry…

I like how they both start out at "it really wasn't very good," then out of sheer mutual politeness talk each other into "it really wasn't bad at all!"

He can seek comfort from the bosom of Rose Byrne. I wouldn't waste too much pity upon him.

All the scenes are shown out of the intended sequence and sometimes you hear one scene playing in the background of the other. But that can be fixed by shoving a matchbook under it.

Oh yeah, I remember Mr. Yuck. And I do think I'm correct that it's the bizarre watercolor blob backgrounds that vex my soul.

Even back in the 70s, there was something about the look of 70s animation that depressed me. I don't know if it was the weird LSD inspired watercolor backgrounds or what. I tried watching the Bakshi Lord of the Rings the other day and said nope and turned it off after 10 minutes. Hell, even the "how many licks does it…

After he left the Avengers, he lent his magic to the X-Men, wherein he masterminded bringing the teen X-Men into the present day and then doing nothing of significance with them once he got them there. He simultaneously took over Guardians of the Galaxy, a title I stuck with for over a year without ever detecting…

I hope more Bendis-owned properties get picked up for tv. It might divert his attention away from making any more of the Marvel universe unreadable.

That's true. and for the most part they're pretty good. I should've specified which DC movies I was referring to as crappy - I meant the Snyder-verse. But the DC animated movies have all been done in the Bruce Timm/Darwyn Cooke house style - which is definitely excellent in its own right - but while it draws on Kirby…

I would love to see an animated movie someday based on the work of Jack Kirby that uses CGI to actually replicate the look of Kirby's art. It looks like DC is going to be using Darkseid in their crappy movies, so the Fourth World is out. Celestials turned up in Guardians of the Galaxy, so The Eternals are out. But…