She didn’t dig the Melvins? That must have been a real Heartbreaker.

If Prince Ruprecht and recognitions are otherwise occupied (and that doesn’t seem to happen often) you can usually have a reasonable discussion of the actual topic at hand.

I think that we’re well overdue for The Decline of Western Civilization IV. 

Their friendship has been the gift that keeps on GIFing.

Yeah, I was strictly a “Make Mine Marvel” guy. I had random issues from a few non-Marvel titles, but I’m sure that I missed out on a lot of great stuff. 

It has to be Henry Zaga, who is playing Sunspot. 

I rarely get excited for a super hero movie, but I am full-on enthusiastic about the prospects here. Making it a horror movie dovetails with my first impressions of the title, back when Claremont, McLeod, and then Sienkiewicz were at the helm. Some of the early cover art just blew my little pre-teen mind away, and the…

For the past six months or so I’ve been playing a Marvel-based game (largely out of nostalgia), and after talking comics history with other players I was finally motivated enough to go back and figure out just when it was that I stopped collecting and regularly reading comics. Looking through the covers from that time…

This is a fool’s errand, because when I point to this I know that the response will be something like, “the studio pressured him to say that,” but here’s Hardy himself clarifying things:

This comes as a bit of disappointment, if not a surprise. I remember reading as a film studies student Bogdanovich’s critical essays on Welles, Hawks, and Lang, and I want to say that I read something in which he even weighed in on the great shift amongst his generation of critics’ assessments of Keaton vis-a-vis…

I wonder if he remembers walking up (“like and archangel”) to Patton Oswalt—staring at that buffet and contemplating the pros and cons of eating something at that after party for Ratatouille—and saying, “Character actors! Who gives a fuck if we’re fat?!’’’

It’s entirely possible, of course, and it seems to be the consensus between several entertainment sites (e.g. Collider, People, AVC sister site iO9) that have stories offering the same interpretation. I’m still betting on it being a tongue-in-cheek response that he and Ahmed spun out for some faux-tension, punctuated…

After watching the vid (the relevant bit starts at the 4:40 mark), it honestly seems like Hardy is joking. From other interviews I’ve seen with him, it would totally be the kind of thing that he would say in jest, and in all of his other answers to the questions leading up to that one he seems enthusiastic about the…

Ghost was in his pen, so the conspirators probably could have easily killed him, a la Grey Wind at the Red Wedding, but they didn’t. Ghost helps defend Jon's corpse as the conspirators try to break into the room, and he is actually the only one in the room when Jon rises from the dead. He's with the party at the…

Yeah it’s plots like that one that make you understand all the more why they changed the character’s gender during the show’s initial development. 

“...save your indignation that finally someone is taking one woman’s accusation of sexual assault seriously.”

On the one hand fighting against systemic racism—including in casting decisions—is of course necessary and noble, and “stab[s] at inclusivity [that are] half-baked and inadvertently offensive” should be called out.

Cool! “E-Bow the Letter” is one of my favorite R.E.M. songs. It and “Country Feedback” are two of Stipe’s most haunting lyrical efforts.

Some right wing media types have tried to make hay out of Colbert’s comments about CNN’s Jim Acosta, who suggested to Trump that Trump call on a female reporter. Colbert says that it was “kind of a dick move” and follows up with, “We get it. You’re woke.” Colbert’s had Acosta on a few times and they seem chummy, so…

Yeah, I first watched Cheers as a fairly young child, so for the longest time in my head I thought of Danson as being like Sam in real life (it probably didn’t help that the only other thing that I saw him in for a long time was Three Men and a Baby, in which he also plays a womanizer). Hearing him talk about just how…