Few things depress me like the modern comics page.

Yes! Massive Thimble Theater fan here. Don't really know how "Let's you and him fight" qualifies as anything other than "loopy wordplay".

"Would a human toilet be a suitable compromise?"

What? The "Mothlight" dream homage was one of the most acclaimed portions of the film, as I recall. The film structures itself off of the central relationship's steady decay, and the repeated imagery throughout supports that.

Alex Aloysius Dowd! As a long-time watcher of Hollywood melodramas, the term is "three-hankie", not "four-hankie".
And I'd go so far as to say that a film featuring the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis counts as hard sci-fi, in spite of any clumsiness and simplification; Interstellar wasn't exactly well-scripted and it's got a…

Ah, this reminds me of my childhood visit to the Bug Museum, where one eats bug-oriented food with bad pun names ("Chocolate Chirp Cookies"). I'll be dissapointed if bug-eating becomes mainstream in the West- there's a lot of cred to being the kid who ate crickets.

In "somewhat", I mean that there are elements of the Carpenter film that have not aged smoothly, but that's the same with the Hawks version. I still think the former is a pretty terrifying film.

I prefer the Carpenter, but Hawk's Thing is pretty smart work- I enjoy movies that try to "science" their way towards a solution.. Both are somewhat hamstrung by their Horror elements.

Oof. That reads like it was written by someone who never saw Thing from Another World- "brainless" is maybe the last word I would use to characterize the film.

So, Mike, how would you compare this to the Hawks/Nyby Thing? I'd say there are points of praise for both- the science procedural of the original, the intense atmosphere of the Carpenter film. Interesting that one could claim that both are least successful as horror films, despite their genre.

The easy comparison to make is always between The Thing and Alien, and I'm not going to fuss about the quality of either, but it's interesting that supporters and detractors of either film (should fans of the movies be divided into two parties) rarely talk about how they have almost opposed sources of paranoia. Alien…

"Donaldism- The fandom associated with Disney comics or cartoons."

It's not… awful. He looks a tad like Billy Dee. Of course, if you're going for the act rather than the look, you always go Chiwitel.

Mostly just a pun on "Reformed Calvinist"- Carl Barks is God Almighty, but I wouldn't call Don Rosa Jesus Christ.

Vodka>Cocaine>Red Bull

Notable teetotaler, which is actually pretty in character- he's kind of like a frat boy who refuses to have any fun.

The gotcha title completely misrepresents the article, too- "comparable" is not remotely the same thing as "just as bad".

Trump card- my high school art consisted of monocle-wearing, mustachioed British gentlemen.

It's unexpected if one is killed in a night-terror Elm Street scenario by fellating aliens.

Patti LuPone has appeared on Law and Order: SVU, Army Wives, and American Horror Story, so… I guess Jesus has to pay the bills occasionally?