What an incredibly inventive book. I remember one of my teachers reading this to the class over several days. Here’s a sad fact: one of Madeleine England’s elementary school teachers hated her and told her she was dumb and would never amount to anything. It makes me bristle every time I think about a teacher doing…

Is it just me or do the effects looks slightly less impressive this time around? Eh, I guess I’m just getting jaded.

Yeah, I’m with you. Look, there’s certainly where world-building can get in the way of the story, but personally, I not only have a fairly high tolerance for it, I actually enjoy delving into the minutiae of a world, and if done right, it can give important context to the action. And nerdism? That’s just insulting and…

Other than in a very vague sense with respect to robots—especially cyborgs—and all sorts of mutants and monsters, I can’t really say which was the first character I identified with, but I can tell you the earliest one I remember identifying with: it’s a weird one, but . . . Godzilla. Around age 5 is when I discovered…

I think it was absolutely the right choice. The audience experiences the same disappointment that Rey herself feels in realizing her parents were just random losers she will probably never meet or know. And I’ve always hated the idea that Force powers were basically hereditary. Bleh.

Okay, first off, why do you insist that music videos have to have a coherent narrative? Maybe the people who produced the Taylor Swift video don’t quite understand sci-fi, but come on. Often the best ones only hint at a story rather than telling one. I see them as sort of like glorified trailers: they tantalize you…

Oh man, I think I know what happened to Barb, and it’s way worse than we thought.

As a poor white rural Southerner who has to put up with the shitty policies of Republicans, I am incredibly thankful to the Southern black community for this. My fellow rural white Southerners do not seem to understand that a good proportion of their misfortune is due to the destructive policies of the party they…

Yeah, that bug-eyed idiot nearly got the family killed so many times. Dr. Smith was pretty evil too.

Heh, that’s great. It’s a made-up name, a Russian character I created for a story that I never used. I’ve always liked the name Nazarius, and I found the Russian surname to be similar to that, so that’s why I used it.

You and me both, brother. I made it in by the skin of my teeth. Nice, by the way.

Agreed. I’m kinda surprised mine made it onto the page. I wasn’t kidding (much) when I said I’m always late to the game. Not only did it get picked, it made it into the header image. Yay! It doesn’t take much to make my day, so thanks for that, James!

Damn it, I’m always a bit late to the game. Here’s my porg image contest entry.

Oh, man, I love that Bertimer poster! Damn you, Marvel! Why does the poster have to be something exactly from the movie? I rather like the idea of posters being thematically linked but not an actual scene from the movie. It makes the story feel bigger than just the film.

Yeah, I had no problem with this episode or the new characters. I loved the whole anti-A-Team vibe of them: a disparate group of outsiders riding around in a van but only out for themselves. I definitely want to see more of them. I saw on another Gawker site one of the writers was complaining about how Stranger Things…

There’s one in the book I just finished writing. So, there.

No, I’m the say way. Don’t get hangovers either. Ironically, I just don’t much like alcohol. Give me weed all day though.

I think you meant he was sawful in it, right? You’re welcome.

As someone who has now suffered through three of these films, yeah, you’re not missing anything. I think under the definition of ‘torture porn’ there’s a picture of that fucking little doll on the tricycle. These movies are absolute shit. I know Germain has some questionable tastes, but I don’t think I’ve ever looked…

Hmm, classy. But I can outdo yout. Singing in twangy country voice: “Bidlo Kwerv-o, you were a friend of mine! Did I dance on the barge? Did I start any fights?” Howzat for classy?