Hey, look! It’s someone who can’t deal with reality so they have to lie about other people! Sweet!

Speaking of Lysistrata, I thought Chi-raq was monstrously good.

I mixed up my classics. Madness of Hercules is by Euripides, and Sophocles wrote Ajax. The latter has been used in recent years in readings to help veterans access emotional trauma. There is actually quite a wide variety to the translations, but the most recent I read by Bagg and Scully in their The Complete Plays of…

Btw, the comments appreciation goes both ways. Thanks for the dialog.

I’m with you for sure. I love the older Lobo minis a lot, as well as the first Deadpool series by Joe Kelly. But those were so over the top ridiculous and presented that way. Lobo and Deadpool, like the Punisher, weren’t meant to be heroes. Lobo was satire of the Punisher and his like getting turned into heroes by fan…

I totally forgot about Cates current Ghost Punisher stuff, which is quite fun, although not as compelling as so much of the other stuff the guy has been cranking out for Marvel (really loved his brief stab at Doctor Strange), Image and Aftershock (among others, Babyteeth is really fun)  the past few years. There have…

Caroline, I happen to agree with you about the issue of toxic masculinity commentary coming from the Punisher, when he is the protagonist and he is always going to be “the hero” of the piece. It’s such a rough balance of finding myself enjoying certain stories built around violence and violent masculinity as…

I’m up to episode ten, and I’m finding that the whole mask thing is working great for the criminal army of vets that Jigsaw has put together. I’m finding that whole story very much in the character of this version of Russo, and all of the details working to support a logical structure to the narrative that I can buy.…

It’s pretty amazing, even if I know it mostly through the filter of the insane genius of Firesign Theatre’s ‘7os mashup film J-Men Forever, where Captain Marvel is dubbed over as The Caped Madman.

I just finished this episode, and for me this is the most interesting version of Jigsaw yet. I find the psychological angle they’ve taken with him unexpectedly compelling, and I think Barnes is doing a great job with it. I’m enjoying the show and most of the performances over all so far in a slow burn kind of way. I…

Says the person who can’t answer any of the points op made. You’re an embarrassment.

She is definitely not “well-liked by most people on the left,” because unlike Ocasio-Cortez or Stacey Abrams she is not an honest liberal/progressive. She is a so-called centrist posing now as a liberal. We don’t need a pro-corporate neoliberal in sheep’s clothing, we need actual liberals who stick to their guns, Like…

Jesus, thank you. How does that not come up in any piece riding her to journalistic integrity or truth? She knowingly enabled one of the single greatest crimes in human history through repeated untruthful reportage. She should be booed off any stage she attempts to speak from.

I’m awarr of that. I was hoping my last sentence in the post above about personal insanity would be a clue that I was (mostly) joking. “On accident” is a thing that has only come into real usage in the last couple of decades and is mostly used by people born in that time-frame, and in print it is still considered a…

I firmly believe that language is a living thing, that what really matters is effective communication, and that all too often “correct” English is meant to gatekeep.

That said, it is “by accident,” and may I humbly suggest that anyone who uses “on accident” should be lined up in front of a firing squad. If it is…

Whatever she chooses to do, I can’t imagine doing anything but supporting her. She is one of the few who give me hope, and right now I need it so badly.

Black Science, Low, Fear Agent, Tokyo Ghost, Seven to Eternity.
Marvel has some good stuff, but I suggest branching out at times. 

You know who’s REALLY the enemy of the Good? People who are willing to keep voting either the Bad OR the Horribly Shitty into office. Those people have caused so much more damage to the world than the so-called patrons of the mythical Perfect. I know I’m not looking for perfect... but I am looking for someone who…

I trust tf out of Maxine Waters, Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib to respond correctly. I cannot say the same for “principled centrist” Kamala Harris.

Nice call-back.