Oddly, it does start to cohere a little more in that sense as the story goes on. King's using Multiverse concepts a la Michael Moorcock and referencing a series of worlds, some of which have magic. That's not to say he doesn't change his mind from book to book; King's always been completely lousy when it comes to…

I fucking HATE Ant-Man. It's only his legacy as one of the original Avengers that keeps him in the spotlight, but the character is so misbegotten. It's not so much his wacky, useless power as it is that they've gone out of their way to make him hateful and irredeemable. Because who WOULDN'T want to cheer on a…

That is quite possibly the most bizarre panel transition in the history of comics. "Meanwhile, Hulk has joined a traveling circus and is juggling elephants." This happens between pages.

Yep, Dan Slott gets the credit for Squirrel Girl, I think. And yes, GLA: Misassembled is great. Why don't we get more of those guys?

I don't see any reason Meera couldn't pop up later, during Bran's wanderings. In fact, it might give him more to do. Jojen would probably be cut for budget reasons—the cast on this show is getting a bit insane as it is.

Aren't there actually two characters at the inn were Arya kills them, though? I can't remember the other…Raff the Sweetling? So just have it be that guy alone. 

*Is* Mel a shadowbinder? I actually always got the impression that Quaithe and Melisandre were on opposite sides of some kind of doctrinal schism among Red Priestesses. Quaithe obviously seems a lot more benevolent, plus she's backing the right horse. And if someone's a "shadowbinder", that sort of suggests that…

And he went for the three-peat as that crazy psycho vamp who had to be walled up and fed pills by the Watcher's Council to test Buffy.

What's with all the "spoiler alert" stuff? I thought this was the recap for people who'd read the books. If you haven't read them you shouldn't be reading this! Shoo!

There's a weird "rule" for the opening credits where characters are associated with whatever the nearest major location—city, castle, whatever—is, even if they're not actually there. So Dany's been in "Vaes Dothrak" since the second episode of S1, even though she's been all over the Dothraki Sea, and "The Wall" is…

In addition to everything else, I think Renly just plain comes off as the most "kingly" of all the contenders (which is good, since he's got the weakest claim to the throne on a legal basis). He's likeable, he knows how to play the political game, and like any good politician, he knows the value of appearances. He's…

Hilariously, those lyrics led to complaints by people from New Orleans, leading Bart's chalkboard in a later episode to read "I will not defame New Orleans".

Spinrad is a good writer from what I've read of his. His short story "Carcinoma Angels" is hilarious and darkly nasty. I haven't read Bug Jack Barron but I know it has a cult following.

I find this whole stretch of the show—the back half of S1—to be really dull and poorly paced (gotta disagree with Todd, I thought this episode was part of the problem too), so it's possible that nobody particularly wants to read about it, hence the declining readership.

I don't really understand why Angel and Spike couldn't have encountered each other a lot over the course of the 20th century. Unless they had Spike or Dru say something about how they hadn't seen him since he got re-ensouled in the early episodes?

This is why, as amazing as the show's finale was, another season would have been great. I believe it's been strongly implied that Fred would have come back, in some form or another—like Ilyria would have started turning into Fred, or something?—which would have made that whole storyline seem a great deal less cruel.

Wolfram and Hart are basically supposed to be the physical manifestation of the banality of evil and the system that grinds the human spirit under its heel. "When the first caveman hit another with a rock, we were there." They're essentially the secret rulers of the world (which is why playing them off against the…

Couldn't they be transferred from other branches? I'm pretty sure it was only the LA branch that got slaughtered. They probably have a division in every major city. And hey, it's not hard to believe Numero Cinco was working in the Mexico branch…

It's got a lot in common with Arrested Development, The Simpsons, and (I think the closest parallel, though it's a show not a lot of North Americans have seen) the British show Spaced.

I kind of love that Angel is a show with this elaborate, mostly serious mythology (which otherwise never mentions the actual devil), but for the sake of that gag, the devil enjoys building robots.