DRUMMER: You know, I noticed since we added the human statue to the lineup that I can only afford one beer with my cut instead of the usual two. What gives?

You know what? You’re absolutely right. I’m not even sure why I care. Most days I’d rather go to a funeral than a live show anyway. Please feel free to have a full-time mime, a chainsaw juggler, and an omelet maker in your band if that’s what makes you happy. If your songs are good, all this extracurricular crap won’t…

That is a better comparison. I was going for a “dancing about architecture” thing but I didn’t need to reach that far.

Good for you. And I’ll feel free to roll my eyes at all the extra assholes on stage making your cut of the gate smaller.

Fuck this. If you’re not on the record, you’re not in the band. Giving a shit about a band’s “visual components” is like judging a cake on how it sounds.

I read plenty of non-Big Two stuff as well and eventually found most of it to be just as underwhelming, albeit in a different way. I think I just fell out of love with the whole medium. 

I was a regular comics reader for over a decade, and I don’t consider all that time and money wasted. Just most of it. There are a select few storylines I treasure, but it’s no longer worth it to me to wade through all the slop looking for the gems.

The AV Club’s stock has fallen precipitously in the last few years, but one thing I can always rely on them for is to remind why I stopped reading comics: Every story takes two years to go nowhere.

Last week some idiot tried to mock the Avengers for being SJWs. Like that’s not a label that Captain America would wear with pride.

Yup, “I’d have risked throwing my career away to blow the whistle on Weinstein” is still the liberal “I’d have stopped the terrorists if I’d been there on 9/11.”

“Hey, have you guys ever seen that really new movie, Infinity War?”

I got a friend who swears he’s a Republican even though he also considers himself a progressive, and he can’t figure out why nobody—I mean nobody, not even other Republicans—is interested in hearing about how he deserves sympathy for getting unfairly lumped in with the Trumpers. He doesn’t get that the damage is real.…

I think the scene where he first confronted her was meant to evoke some gender-based discomfort, but I actually agree with you that Purple Lady was a terrible boss. I was sort of alluding to that when I mentioned all the contortions they had to go through to get Poe to the point of mutiny. But yeah, what a bad…

I was actually really liking that Nas track until Kanye came in and Kanyeed all over it.

NARRATOR: It wasn’t.

I think its subversion of the Hero’s Quest is grossly overstated. What does the movie leave us with? A kid inspired by the tale of a great warrior who overcame personal tragedy to save us all single-handedly from a monstrous evil. If that’s not the Hero’s Quest, I don’t know what is. Also, we’re expected to…

I’m of two minds on this issue. On the one hand, I think Abrams left Johnson with a sack of wet garbage in terms of story and world-building, so a course correction was in order. On the other hand, I don’t think the direction Johnson took was very good either, and I don’t think negating everything from the first…

I know, right? Superheroes? Fighting for justice and equality? What an absurd concept!

That word bums me out.

I think Blow Out is one of the few cases where it feels like you’re watching a character instead of just John Travolta being a ham. That’s often fun, too, but it’s great when he shows his legitimate acting chops. Like another famous ham, William Shatner, he has great natural presence that really holds the screen when…