Is this where we confess our 90's comic book sins? Okay — I had every issue of the first two Shadowhawk miniseries.

@avclub-97d6c074b974838257db17a02f8784c4:disqus — That's a pretty great defense of Gangbuster.  Although lawn-mowing and comic-reading friends gave me access to a wider range of issues than you had, I formed similar attachments to those types of characters.  I still think USAgent is cool, solely from reading and…

I don't know how well it holds up now, but I loved the funeral story at the time. The juxtaposition between wacky Kirby/Cadmus stuff with the supporting cast grieving really worked for me, I liked the idea of (admittedly lame) characters like Guardian and Gangbuster (and, of course, Bibbo) trying to take the place of…

Aw, I have a soft-spot for Dan Jurgens. He's always a really good inker away from being a solid silver age artist, with some terrible anatomy/forced perspective gaffs here and there.

I mostly agree. The world without a Superman arc was pretty great, and I totally bought into the Reign of the Superman marketing. I don't know that any of it holds up still, but I remember it being much more fun than AzBats or Emerald Twilight or any of the other DC replacement stories.

It's definitely sad, but there's a sweetness that, I think, really takes the edge of the melancholy.  At the end of the day, no matter how embarrassed Sam or Lindsay get, they can come home to parents who love them and each other.  Obviously that's not as true for all of the other characters, but the strength of the…

I see Millie laying low during high school and graduating with honors, choosing to go to a Bible college in Grand Rapids to study education, but ultimately dropping out to get married.  After her husband graduates, he takes a position as a Youth Pastor in Petoskey and the couple has five children, whom she will…

"The hammer is ready-to-hand.  The hammer is my penis."

As a Michigander, I always chuckled at the bit where Kim tries to impress her mom by claiming that the Weirs had a cottage in Benton Harbor. Maybe the town was better in the 80's (I was a tyke in Kalamazoo at the time), but that one always stood out as an inaccuracy.

I do the same thing.  I remember watching Donnie Darko right after it came out on video and thinking, "Oh good! At least Ken's still getting some work."  Little did I know.

"Carded and Discarded" is probably my overall favorite, partially because it was the first episode I saw, but I have a lot of love for "The Garage Door."  The bit where Sam breaks down after getting the Atari captured everything I love about the series.

No, but that's going to be my next project.

I was hoping someone would bring this one up.  The only one of his Christian songs that comes near Leonard Cohen's religious songs.

As a Midwesterner, I always assumed the same thing about Duck Dynasty, but I have a professor who is not only a born and raised Southerner, but a quite well-respected expert on Southern lit and he likes the show.  He even threw in a question about it during my diss defense, which I completely flubbed.

I had the exact same experience.  Saw him in a tiny club in Grand Rapids, MI right after Sebastapol came out.  The crowd was polite, the venue was nice enough, and yet he just seemed annoyed that we all showed up — played through his entire set without saying much more than an occasional "thanks."  Not that I needed…

Really? Huh — I'm pretty well versed in Levinas and later Derrida, so I always figured Buber would be a fairly easy hole to plug, especially since the book is so slim.  Now you've got me worried — Deleuze and Guattari are the only philosophers who actually made me angry with their writing style, so hopefully it's not…

Just finished the first chapter two hours ago — there's definitely a bummer coming, but the setting is goofy enough to offset any tragedies, I think.  Hopefully without too many of the indie-movie like quirks present in the first chapter.

Just finished Percival Everett by Virgil Russel by Percival Everett last night.  Starts off treading a lot of the same meta-textual ground that Paul Auster already covered, but become a more powerful meditation on violence and storytelling by the end.  Its pretty great, like most of Everett's stuff.

As a long-time Green Lantern reader, I'm grateful for the way he returned the franchise to prominence and introduced the various corps. But yeah, it became clear he was out of ideas as soon as Blackest Night hit (even if his stuff between War of the Lanterns and Third Army was solid, if unremarkable).

I should have read your reply before making my own post, but yeah — I'm right there with you.  I hate to sound like the guys who were whining about Kyle Raynor, Jason Rusch, and Jamie Reyes — especially since I really liked Connor Hawke — but this Ollie just isn't interesting. Maybe if they replaced his old traits…