The guy who does the manga Airgear used to work in Hentai (my friend was a big Airgear fan but hadn’t checked out the Hentai, so when we were hanging around one day I looked some of it up on my phone) one of the porno stories is about a girl who’s being arranged to wed an asshole and she ends up losing her virginity…

I feel like the nominations are more in the “He’s earned it with all of his work from the past few years” column than the “This particular movie was specifically deserving” one. Which isn’t unheard of for the Oscars.

Vis a vis Farris, I didn’t dream that she was drunk out of her mind during the episode of “How Did This Get Made?” she guest starred on for Grease 2 did I? That was a thing that actually happened right?

Yeah, I mean he wasn’t tricking her so he could keep her as some kind of sex slave, he just wanted her to do chores around the house until she had paid him back for the work he did for her, it’s still not great morality-wise, but that describes about 90 percent of all studio films from the 80's

um, AV Club has always done contests this way, what the hell are you talking about?

If there are people buying books made by Rob Liefeld, you can bet your ass there are people buying Bendis’ work

Cable was great in Deadpool and Cable by Fabien Nicieza and a rotating team of artists. His angry action hero tough guy schtick works really well when it’s bounced off characters who can bring some (or a lot) of levity to the proceedings 

Manipulating Cyclops’ memories to forget he had a second brother was a pretty dick move

Is walking on water an analogy that means he’s doing good? I threw him in there because I loved his work on Howard the Duck and I’m digging his Spider-man and think his Marvel Two-in-one reboot is probably the best book Marvel is currently putting out. No writer is perfect, of course, part of being a writer means…

Exactly, it’s why his early stuff is so much better than what he was doing the last several years at Marvel. He’s not a good “line-wide event” writer, especially because he tends to place C-List characters he likes on the forefront of whatever direction the entire company’s canon is taking

I really liked the early Ultimate Spider-man stuff, but that series quickly became just as convoluted (if not moreso due to it getting to that point faster than the 616 stuff did) as the mainstream Spider-man comics. I hear his stuff with Miles was good, and I would think that very well may be the case seeing as most…

In what way is he important? Because he wrote a bunch of superhero comics? That’s fucking laughable to say he’s one of the 5 most important people when I can easily name five guys who worked in superhero comics and contributed more to the medium than Marvels go-to crossover event writer. I also didn’t say the other…

That and I wasn’t trying to get into a deep dive analysis of one writer versus others, that’s not how hyperbole works. If I had wanted to compare Bendis to anyone though it’d probably be Brubaker, since they both had similar career paths and are known for work in gritty, crime stories.

Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky, Mark Waid, Christopher Priest, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman, Jason Aaron, Gail Simone, Gerard Way, Michael Allred, Brian K Vaughan, Greg Rucka, Dan Abnett, Rick Remender, Joe Kelly, Gerry Duggan, Joe Hill, Warren Ellis, Paul Jenkins, Peter Milligan, Brian…

Sure, why not?

Munsters is awesome, so is Greatest American Hero. I’m 25 and these are things I accept as fact. I still don’t really need constant reboots or reimaginings

I’m curious how they’re going to retain the originals appeal, which centered largely on the main characters incompetence in the use of his powers, without making it read as sexist to the kind of people who complain about that sort of thing. If they keep it on the same level they risk backlash, if they dilute it too…

There are many, many writers currently working in comics who not only equal Bendis but easily surpass him. Which is to say nothing of the many writers from previous eras who are better than him. I will admit that when working on smaller more focused stories he can do good work, but he hasn’t done something like that…

yeah, it was never anything to write home about, but it remained charming and chuckle worthy through it’s only season, the last few episodes showed a lot of promise as it started to focus more heavily on the fantasy world (with Zorn tricking mud people into buying soap to boost his sales numbers) and a cliffhanger…

This just makes me remember Rob Huebbels story on the Jason X episode of “How Did This Get Made?” about how he was at a convention and noticed a shy little kid cosplaying as Jason approaching Hodders booth only for Hodder to just look at the kid and flatly say “20 bucks”