That's a really excellent book. If it was more widely available, I'd love to use it in Children's Lit courses to illustrate genre and adaptation. I think my favorite is the Double Bubble Dante's Inferno, which manages to hit both the circles of hell and the unfunny punchlines of its bubble gum origins.

Yes. And that belief in turn explains a lot about Diane's own breakdown, when what was doing/maybe what she was capable of doing fell short of her own self image.

On the one hand, they clearly weren't close, and it's indicative of Bojack's selfishness that before he sets out, he not only had no idea that she had a family, he made no effort to find out any detail of her life beyond the fantasy he conjectured. (And the Kyle and the Kids song makes that awesomely clear.) On the…

Randomly, I was recently reminded that she played Justin Timberlake's mother in the sci-fi film In Time—which is another thankless ornamental role, but probably the most interesting relationship in the movie. (Naturally, it's over in the first fifteen minutes or so.)

I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but her first parting line was devastating too, in a totally different way. "I don't care where you go, Bojack, but I can't have you around here. You make me too sad."

It's a different vibe, but I'd recommend Roger Langridge's Thor series as a good one for new readers, especially for people familiar with the films but not comics.

On the other hand, and maybe surprisingly, I've lent PAD's Hulk: the End (a what-if story considering what the last Hulk story might look like) to a few people who just know Hulk from the movies, and they've all found it a good read.

I don't want to re-open a can of worms, but that "do whatever he wants" sense was what I liked least about Bendis casting young Iceman as gay. It's one thing to change a character, it's another to make a change that big when you know you have two issues left in the series. Passing the actual work of Bobby's character…

It was a great comic, but really weird to have a writer writing a lead-in to a series he wasn't in any way involved in. It's kind of like a bait and switch, if the first thing you told the mark was that it was a bait and switch.

Honestly, with the number of Life Model Decoys Nick Fury's commissioned, odds are all the Avengers have made out with robots. (And probably Skrulls.)

The Secret Wars series Captain Britain & The Mighty Defenders has an interesting twist on this, where the starting deviation from the regular Marvel verse is that,way back when Tony and Yinsen first design the Ironn Man armor, Tony realizes that only one of them is getting out of there, and basically realizes that…

As an add-o to TheBrignad's thought, my go-to for the subject is Rachel Edidin's discussion of autism as a label in regards to the X-Men's Cylcops: http://www.rachelandmiles.c…

I was going to go either Pinky and the Brain, or Sealab 2021. Sci-fi comedy loves its super intelligent mice. Way more than super intelligent voles.

One of the few good things to come out of the Age of Ultron event was a one-shot Giant Man Hank Pym story by Mark Waid that really made me wish he was writing more of the character; it was a nice combination of FF's joy of exploration, his recent take on the Hulk, and the optimism of DD. It's a hard mix to get right,…

Totally agree with your take on this volume of Snyder's Batman. The Court of Owls retcons have always set poorly with me, and Bruce's brother strikes me as too similar a character to Hush to be worth exploring. The Freeze story purely in itself isn't bad, but I think over the long run, it makes Freeze a less…

Which these days is a pretty good run for a second tier title.

I can't believe grown-ass men are still taking football and soccer seriously! I mean, children play those games.

My favorite part was Steven's facial responses. "Are the others here?" NO. YES. YES, SHEEPISHLY.

It did feel a little like a Bing Bang Theory-esque "look, it's nerds talking nerd stuff" kind of joke.

Plus, he played Batman for years on Brave and the Bold, and was *still* dishing out the burns.
Green Arrow: What, like you've never made a mistake, Bats?
Batman: Apparently, I made one when I thought you could help me stop the Clock King.