Just when you thought the series was drying up…Betsy Ross, ninja assassin super agent! Fuck yeah. This show is the best kind of dumb, and it knows it.

Still hoping the show's Joker Jr. is a slow-burn red herring. He's being played well, but the very concept of Joker Jr. just sits…dumb with me.

I didn't approach it with such an analytical eye, to be sure… but as a piece of Alien lore , wasn't it a bit refreshing to get something that at least tried to be thoughtful and understated? No sledgehammer of callbacks and fanservice. No Predators, no Batman, no video link with some Earthbound spouse who decided to…

Why is Prometheus so derided? It's simple—an ancient alien race created both humans and xenomorphs. The xenomorphs were a bio weapon that got way out of hand.
…and then the robot impregnated the space lady for no clear reason, but c'mon! It's not that confusing otherwise!

Not too bad overall. Barbara is fairing better as a character, though it's still prett y gross that she's passed from one greasy thug to another as a kind of property, and the character will probably go along with it, only to kill the new thug at the end of the season. Because that's what popculture thinks feminism is.

My friends and I spent countless time on Super Mario World, the most secrets-packed of Marios. And still, every time the credits rolled there seemed to be whole types of enemies and worlds we never encountered scrolling by. "B-but…we found Star World! We beat it, and the challenge levels, and unlocked Halloween mode!…

A middle school friend insisted it was pronounced "Hermy-one". As is Obi-Wan's niece or something.

Poor conservatives! Such victims!
I don't know why American conservatives are against Iran at all. A strict theocracy with morality laws that forbid homosexuality and keep women in their place? The only way that such a society could be better is to put guns in absolutely everyone's hands! Utopia!

I'm still delighted that a cool, obscure superhero like Green Arrow has become such a hot commodity.
On the other hand, why didn't "Batman as Robinhood" occur to anyone sooner?

Teddy's daughter, Alice, was quite a character herself. Rowdy, adulterous, mean…she was a witty menace in DC up through the 70s. Well worth reading about.

Can't stand a Peter Pan origin story. How sick is it to try to frame Neverland with a set history and logic? Pirates and mermaids and fairies..it's supposed to be a little boy's fantasy playground! Something that has always been, and always will be, free from logic and rules. Why turn that into a third-rate Narnia?
(Tha…

Liked it. Way to go out dark. I seriously thought it would end with some Jodie Foster stand-in standing in front of the iconic cell, but no. They did their own thing with it, and I applaud the decision.

My high school English classes approached Shakespeare by having students assigned parts to read, and even perform, aloud on the spot.
I got Caesar, made a couple of grand speeches, then got stabbed and laid on the floor at the front of the room under a sheet (for the teacher had brought in a sheet just for this) for…

…Woo? Blegh? Megh? UUUuugh?
I dunno, I guess they all describe Family Dad.
Er, American Guy? I dunno, uuuuuugh…

There's a lot of untapped Shakespeare out there more worthy than than an nth R&J retelling.
How about Loves Labors Lost, the great anti-romcom? A group of wacky bros DON'T win the babes with their antics and grand gestures, and are instead called out for being asses who had better grow the hell up already. 
Now THAT'S…

How about the racket Kentucky has going on cheap vodka? Seriously, if you've ever paid less than 15 bucks for a bottle, KY is probably somewhere in the small print. What is up with that?

Over the weekend I went to a used book store the shared shopping space with a KFC, and decided fuck it, I'm gonna get me bucket of chicken. I then missed my bus by seconds and decided fuck it, I'll walk the half hour back home with my chicken.
Twenty minutes later I'm more than half dead, 'cause it's August Texas and…

And somewhere, some MRA purist is getting that image tattooed on his pale, flabby bicep.

I was in high school when Heroes was new, and now I'm pushing 30.
So I guess I'm the targeted demographic?
Ugh, no, stop! Hear me, marketing?! I don't want it! Leave me alone! Foist your reboots on other demos!

Anyone else read the comics Awkward and Potential?