As with any comic book character who's been around for decades with many different writers, it depends. The version of Strange that Jason Aaron has been writing for the last year or so is on the young and snarky side, though his personality isn't the same as the movie one. In the very early Ditko stories he was more…

This was definitely one of those times I appreciate living near a Drafthouse theater, because they're mercilessly intolerant of talkers and texters. But also they have some very dedicated movie nerd putting together the pre-show clips, and in this case it was a great medley of super-cheesy earlier versions of Dr.…

It was "Perhaps, but who am I to judge?" Anyway, yeah, his delivery was just right. Both the line and the reading kind of borrowed some of his Hannibal style, like just because he intends to kill you is no reason to have bad manners.

I think you've run into Muphry's [sic] law there, because you got Mikkelsen's last line wrong (and it's the best one).

I never followed Doctor Strange in depth, but I do have lovey feelings for him which are mostly based on the Engelhart/Brunner/Colan years, because those were the first issues I saw. (I'm not quite that old, but some older kid gave me a box of '70s comics.)

Another good thing about Prophet was the backup material— they gave a fair amount of space to a bunch of artists with, as far as I could tell, just about no creative restrictions other than "do something science-fictiony that would be too weird for most other comics." Malachi Ward and Matt Sheehan got a well-deserved…

Marvel did a lot of "character gets humility and stops being a dick" origins early on, but Strange was REALLY a dick

If someone does make a movie out of it, I hope they don't wimp out on making the near-future world just as deliberately ridiculous as it is in the book. I kind of love that Clowes didn't make the slightest gesture toward imagining what life might really be like in 2029 but just went with whatever was fun to draw.

"If someone offers you a drink of Pink Fuck, throw it away, 'cause it's bad shit." To be honest, I probably would've cracked up even if all they did was say "Pink Fuck" a few more times. It's a good name.

Logan doesn't really say that. He mentions rumors of them losing money when he's talking about how expensive all this stuff is in the party-town. Then he talks about the history of the company and mentions that they had problems after one of the founders died. I think the idea is that the company almost didn't get…

You're missing the context for that line - he said they're losing money specifically because they made the extra wild adult content border town so luxurious.

The other thing about the Palmer scene is that his transformation is messier and more frantic than some of the others, and the characters react frantically, and the filming becomes more chaotic than the other monster scenes. D'Angelo implies that Carpenter just lost control there, but it works for me as a deliberate…

That's a nice explanation of the difference in style between those two, and I kind of agree, but to me it doesn't make those effects any less… effective… in The Thing, because they're such different stories. What you see in The Fly is based on Earth life— it's a cross between two normal animals. The Thing isn't life…

Yeah, the bit about "Watching Palmer’s transformation … really obvious prosthetics", etc., jumped out at me because it's so different from how the movie plays for me. I mean I know this isn't the kind of thing you can argue someone into a different opinion on, it's super subjective, but… when I see the Palmer monster…

No no no. You never start the first sentence of a book with just a name— people won't understand who the character is. You have to say "Disqus commenter hannahk2012…"

I've seen the website. It's cool. But I'm going by what's on the actual show: the dialogue I mentioned, and also not having seen any children at all in Sweetwater.

It's worth reading if only for the introduction, where before he gets into his own theory he gives a pretty informative and entertaining overview of previous schools of thought about consciousness. When he gets to the strict behaviorists— which he used to be one of— he says something along the lines of "We talked a…

I think the implication is that the main town, where most of the sex and murder happens, is adults-only— there are G-rated areas elsewhere. When that family ran into Dolores out by the river, the parents were talking about how they didn't want to get too close to the "not for kids" territory.

I don't think Dolores would normally be allowed to defend herself— it seems like in all of her usual storylines, either a guest gets to rescue her from the bandits, or the guest is the bandit. I think she was specifically programmed not to be able to use guns no matter what, to ensure that those stories always go the…

I laughed out loud when they brought up Julian Jaynes's "bicameral mind" thing. Jaynes's book is one of those things that if you're a nerdy kid looking for esoteric shit, it's so out of left field that it's perfect, and he comes across like a totally cool and confident mad scientist— Anthony Hopkins could totally…