Was Sweet Tooth good? I saw it on sale yesterday digitally, but I didn't know when an arc ended and didn't take the plunge. Mistake?

For what it's worth, O'Neil tackles this question directly in his last post.

I didn't know I wanted to see a movie with Ennis and Louis, and I'm still not sure, but that's what this looks like.

Wait, this isn't a dangerous level? I gotta say, the eye-rolling take on politics means I'm going to flip through the second issue to decide, it's already too much Millarness for me. This feels like a strange thing to say, but he's like a less subtle Warren Ellis when he's like this.

Yes, at least it seems so in this first issue. Not much in the way of backgrounds though.

I remember liking this movie when I saw it, but it had more to do with my nerd-response that every character corresponded to a Vampire: The Masquerade clan. The lead is a gangrel, the girl at the piano a toreador, some kid in a cape is tremere? That amused me to some end. I can imagine being driven insane by the movie…

God I hate Kenny.

Huh, I don't think much of the Taste, but Bourdain's general "mellowing" has been great. The punk/profane/truth-teller was refreshing at first, but was always a pose itself, and the shtick got thicker as it he stuck by it for too long.

Man, I misremember everything now. Daniel's nicer anyway. Though there was that one exchange in an earlier storyline where Morpheus asks how the guardians are doing and they're all confused since he'd never bothered to ask before, so Morpheus was nearly there himself, maybe.

I honestly don't regard any of the other Gaiman penned Endless related work essential, though I like them all to varying degrees. Picking one, I think Endless Nights adds the most since it touches on the rest of the family. The stories are more built to showcase the attached artists (Baron Storey invented the little…

Destruction's little visit with Daniel is my favorite part of the Wake. I remember not embracing The Kindly Ones like Tasha did, but I never resisted Daniel. Feeding the gate guardians and his little exchange with his older brother—whatever affection I have for Morpheus I thought it was pretty clear that Daniel…

I think there's this silly idea that you'll end up liking the wrong thing and being uncool, so why risk it? What if I just like really crap jazz?

The Shield! I still find that show weirdly underpraised. I don't know if its a plus or minus that you're likely to find more fans of every one of those other shows (except maybe Pushing Daisies) to talk about it with.

What Douay-Rheims-Challoner is basically what my knowledgable classical friend told me when I undertook the same sort of project (he is fan of Deutsche Grammophon especially), with the additional bit of advice that listen to something and pick something that you like about it—so more work by the same orchestra, or the…

Video games…I myself gravitate to rpgs but have no patience/time for 70+ investments, and yet those are the kind of games I like most. I hate the idea of missing content and I have yet to completely get over that.

I was thinking of trying to spread the wonder (force to read) Browntown, from one of the recent issues and had to think is anyone going to love it without having spent time with them? Do I have to make whoever read everything before they get to the point to appreciate how awesome this is?

Neat looking series. I hope they cover the whole "Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare" business just long enough to call it nonsense.

I kind of take the solicitor's suicide (I forget exactly where that reveal was) as possibly Desire cleaning up the scene, if she set the ball rolling. It seemed kind of neat and tidy that he would be married, sleep with her, disappear. Not that that can't happen, of course, but neat nonetheless.

I definitely had similar reactions to the art in the Kindly Ones when I first read it and Hempel's work has grown on me (Gregory!), though really, I don't think I disliked it that much, just kinda knew it wasn't my thing. What's changed though, and it's funny he's mentioned specifically as a contrast, is that I find…

I'm afraid to tell you this, Serenity was always kind of embarrassing. Awesome series finale, not-so-hot movie for theatrical release.