"During the licensing fight [with the publishers about merchandizing], I was often accused of seeing issues in black and white, so I illustrated it literally for the strip. Calvin's retort is my own. It was a challenge to make the pictures intelligible without any outlines. Best of all, I only needed to color one…

It's an old trope, but the fact that they're riddled with moles makes it seem a lot more justified.

It didn't seem like love, more that she was immediately on hand and would allow him to rub his success in Greer's face.

I got the Brat part of the FJ question easily, but that's because I'm an active Virginia Republican and avid follower of national politics. For people who aren't in those groups, Brat is definitely not a name to remember. This is a man who, this coming January, will advance to being another anonymous backbencher…

I would say that Leith's dickish reaction to the breakup is an intentional portrayal of him in a less than positive light. So the show doesn't think he's an especially good guy. Also, I was all set for his relationship with the Castleroy family to be comically awkward for the forseeable future. The daughter's death…

I wish I had seen Elisa's previous games. She reminds me of a drunken Jessica Chastain.

I caught up with Veep, which is uniformly excellent. But none of the AV Club commenters realized that Selina's American flag brooch is very similar to the one Sarah Palin wore in 2008, which was the subject of this in-depth analytical news story.

Even though they get relatively few upvotes, I really appreciate your weekly thoughts. It's good to have a fresh perspective, and it keeps the comments focused more on the episodes at hand rather than the broad scope of the series every time.

But that guy on Reddit assured me that it was proof of how the government is an oppressive oligarchy that's also biased against men.

The Tudors fans will also get this one pretty easily. Maria Doyle Kennedy's lispy Castilian accent was a major part of season 1.

I watched the first half of Season 3 of Veep, which was utterly hilarious. Also my sister returns home from Afghanistan today. She's pretty much my favorite person in the whole world, so I'm excited about that.

Yeah but living in a world full of lurid invasions of privacy, senseless death, and intractable war gives more thematic resonance to the films.

Yeah I just avert my eyes when they have the preview montage. It's the easiest solution, and the opening credits are otherwise good.

FXX is also airing them in a widescreen aspect ratio, instead of the original 4:3 ratio.

I should've mentioned it last week, but one of my favorite "ships" is Lee Adama's love affair with the Rule of Law.

Between those wars, some later Indian Wars, and World War II, the US Army has fought battles in all 50 US states.

If you include our invasion in the American Revolution and the Fenian Raids, it's actually 2 times and some change.

The 10 least populous states currently have 11 Democratic Senators and 9 Republican Senators, so they're pretty much in line with the body as a whole.

No problem, it gives me another chance to make my usual humorless and factual political comments that everyone here on the AV Club clearly loves.

Considering that it was done on the public account, it was pretty clearly an error. After this thing blew up to absurd proportions, there weren't any women coming out of the woodwork saying they were sexually harassed, but there were a large number of women involved in consensual sexting relationships.