The Legend of the Dark Knight arc 'Gothic' is also a bonkers-awesome story worth mentioning.

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I wonder how much Calvinist predestination and divine elect doctrine influenced this 'movement'.

Would it help any if you were told the word originally meant 'of the world'?

It's the sporadic copycat killers that sometimes worry me the most.

It may be that the red hair was Holmes's personal take on the "I'm an agent of chaos" Joker. Very hard to tell right now until the dust of all this settles and more complete facts are in.

There's an uber-strange revisionism with him and his IP. Best book I ever read about it was The Secret History of Star Wars. A damn fine read if you like the films or are interested in the backstage stuff.

Joss seems to me the kind of guy who knows the value of a group of writers and the soundboarding fruit that can bear from that vs. one egomaniac and a cadre of yes men. He's gained his writing chops by surviving the television gauntlet, which kind of requires you to collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the story.

Supposedly he's due to reappear in the New 52.

I think what has impressed me most about the New 52 Aquaman (and I've seen Geoff Johns bork just as many titles as he's done well on) is that:

Were you as shocked as I was with the new season premiere?

With Korra not starting for a little while, it's good to see Young Justice revving back up again. It's almost getting to be as thick with intrigue as the old Justice League Cadmus arc was.

It will forever fascinate me how acceptable surveillance is in our society... but how ferociously intolerated and violently opposed sousveillance is.

I'm totally with you on the rushed ending of this first season. But from what I've read, it would seem DiMartino and Konietzko had a larger subplot they wanted to do but didn't get enough episodes to do the first time. They've admitted that this new bounty of seasons will let them take that idea on.

Slightly spoilery information on the upcoming seasons can be found here and speculative character names can be found here.

The cut of their bangs is similar. But that's about it.

With three more books said to follow Book 1, odds are good they'll have plenty of episodes to build and land a new plot with.

I disagree. They've been telegraphing almost from the start that Walt is going to get darker and more depraved and that it's not going to end in roses like his defeat over Gus.

It was made pretty clear Ted Beneke is either dead or severely injured.

Nope. Sorry. Not about to agree to that. It's a public forum and I'll take your comments as they come.