I felt the language was so broad and so generic it cut me off from what was otherwise a beautiful and finely textured experience. While I have no doubt it is a very real presentation of the Green's beliefs -that I cannot stress enough; they are fully and deservedly entitled to- it provided little insight. As you can…

What I'm trying to say is I feel Christianity, and more broadly, faith, is under-represented in a lot of pop culture outside of the avenues specifically tailored to a religious audience. The God's Not Dead brand of ready-made Christian entertainment. Sufjan Stevens is just an example of one of the rare artists with…

Yeah, exactly so. I'd have to be willfully obtuse to not understand the power of faith in such a relentlessly painful experience.

Thanks! I actually requested it. My state of emotional vulnerability actually caused me to sniff this one out.

My wife felt the same way as you when she read it. I don't mean to be unduly sharp. I think I was just particularly disappointed since I was aware the game dealt strongly with the family's faith before I played, and I was excited for insight that would rise above the conventional, unsatisfying conversation about…

I don't mention it because I find fault with their faith. I mention it because it feels so flat in comparison to an otherwise nuanced and thoughtful presentation. Of course they're trying to cope. And I bear them no ill-will for their faith regardless of the circumstance. As I mention at the end of the review, it is…

Full disclosure: I played this game a mere six weeks after my wife gave birth to our second kid. What was my home office is slowly being transitioned into his bedroom. In its current state, the room is little else than a computer surrounded by mounds of onesies, diapers and tiny, tiny socks. I am woefully underslept…

I generally think mopey autobiographical comics are lame and Habibi is much better (stronger, deeper narrative; stunning inventive, experimental calligraphy).
But Thompson is a fucking marvel with a brush and I think his visual chops elevate a story that would otherwise be dull or flatly self-indulgent. I'm an…

Plus he

The "Dies Irae"trailer was so gleefully, wonderfully committed to it's gonzo vision it was a soothing promise to me the movie would be as good as I dared hope it would be.

The annual Meeken illustration is a holiday tradition I can completely get behind.

As much as I find Scott Adams' personification of unexamined white dude "let them eat cake" obliviousness fucking gross, it has nothing on how much I despise how utterly artless he is with his craft. I understand newspaper strips are no longer a nurturing environment for quality illustration, but his shitty-poop…

"We're Whalers on the moon, we carry our harpoons,
But there ain't no wales so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tunes!"
At least according to leading fungineers.

Hah! Holy shit, that's amazing. It's far more elaborate than I thought it would be.

To my embarrassment I have not.

Thanks, Santo! I appreciate it.

Full disclosure: I volunteered this song just because I wanted to do the "Weird Al" in Darth Vader's helmet photoshop so badly.

a. Bend over ass-backwards in an attempt to mollify a subset of fandom that will almost certainly fail?

Yeah, but you already have a perfectly good Han Solo. It's like getting mad someone threw out the box of Hydrox when you're fully stocked on Oreos.

I'm a sourpuss who mostly dislikes all the EU stuff. But my own curmudgeon tendencies aside, can you even imagine trying to make the new trilogy faithful to the pre-existing EU stuff? To paraphrase a certain space opera people may be cursorily familiar with, EU fandom: You will never find a more wretched hive of…