Alright, not made up, but a game of telephone with especially bad result. The exact way that Zhong Chang-Chen is a incorrect transliteration can call attention to itself because Zhong and Chen are family names and they wouldn't appear together. By itself, it sounds fake.

Chen is a surname/family name, it shouldn't be at the end of the a string unless you're Anglicizing the whole order, and you don't have Chong in the front which is also a surname. It just doesn't play. I realize it won't strike a lot of readers as off, I know it's minor thing in one of Herge's most respectful works…

I don't think Tintin should be avoided and I wasn't looking to be offended. I'd have been happy with something like your two paragraphs in the middle of all the rest and been done, but I think the review's dealing with the subject was weak sauce—mentioning Belgium's role in the region is not a distraction but as a…

Actually, his name was transliterated as Chang Chong-Ren, not Chen, which naturally flows a lot more like a Chinese name I would recognize as sounding real—it being real. Herge changed it to something approachably French, and probably for alliteration purposes was changed again to Chen in English, maybe by someone…

"portray nonwhite peoples in a less than flattering (if not patently
offensive)"…"not just because of the racist undertones (and sometimes overtones)"…

I think if it was Sin City by itself that that sort of stuff was in, yeah, it'd be a homage (maybe) and you leave it at that, but I think Miller's done enough similar things elsewhere that is probably not a homage, or just, or he's so busy homaging that way that everything (Catwoman/Wonder Woman/the Spirit etc…) all…

Oh, Moore definitely has his own issues—mostly about women raped as a way to raise the stakes. A lot of people came after and made Barbara Gordon as Oracle an interesting character, but her role in Killing Joke is just as bad a woman as plot device thing as the dumping in refrigerators business.

I think lesbians and bad ass hookers are part and parcel of male fantasy, totally in the ballpark.

Are they really even a loose trilogy motivated by not-being Star Trek, or just the sci-fi shows we kind of like now that aren't Star Trek? BSG was directly anti-Star Trek in many ways, yeah—and some of its flaws problem come from taking that attitude a little too close to heart—but Firefly was more a Whedon show built…

Nope. Well, hate is a strong for me, but I didn't think much of it. It felt like people read a lot more into the basically pulpy story than I did.

Ah, I wouldn't expect meat (or anything) in broth, but I guess I thought the flavor would be stronger. But yeah, I can imagine people get weird about it—though they shouldn't, it's not like they haven't cooked not-meat before.

Bad hosting is what that sounds like. A little compliment fishing is alright, but that sounds horrible. And its not like people who eat meat never cook other things.

I'm not vegetarian. Anecdotally, I've had more experiences with overly defensive meat eaters than proselytizing vegetarians.

You can't tell when they used a meat based broth? I'd figure a mostly vegetarian would. Wait, why are they telling you that?

He's mellowed on vegetarians after seeing some of the processing our food goes to, but when he rants he has boxes to tic off, mostly when an Alice Waters type—cooks organic eggs over a wood fire, joined on an op-ed about the White House chef asking her to use organic (they already did for years)—mouths off. But yeah,…

I haven't read any other interviews either, but I definitely got the same vibe as you. Hell, I just started skimming, I figure I should put in as much effort as he did.

Dude made Bus 174 first, one of the most harrowing documentaries I've ever seen. It's the one scene in City of God with the kids, except it's only that scene…so I gave Elite Squad a try and expected more. I don't know that it glorifies the police state, I think it's supposed to repulse, but I'm guessing, and it didn't…

Darn you disqus, you are so wonky.

Which image comics are aesthetically repugnant?

It didn't help that Hong Kong was basically the epicenter of pirating, so even if they got funding, they didn't make that much money.