Absolulely. I'm only about a 1/4 through Habibi and it is blowing my mind with every page. I've read much praise for Green River Killer- looking forward to it a lot. Seth, I don't know. I liked George Sprott a lot more than I'd expected, but "It's A Good Life…" just depresses me. I'm crossing my fingers we get an Acme…

Oh, FAVOURITE is a different thing entirely. If I had to choose one brother's work to keep and one to never look at again, I'd take Beto in a heartbeat. And part of why is that I'd agree that Xaime can leave me a little cold, or at least maybe a little bored if I try to drop in the middle of one of the long, romantic…

Yeah, I feel like he's sort of lost the thread in following the story of Fritz, a character I never really understood anyway. And a lot of his recentsci-fi experimental stuff seems more like scetchbook than completed work. Back to Palomar, G!

You are correct about the level of what you are missing (I guess. You do mean not being familiar with something essential, right? Like having never seen any movie by Alfred Hitchcock?) I advise you to go out immediately and read "Locas", or whatever they are calling the first volume of Jaime's work. I think Gilbert is…

Wow, I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed. Disappointed, I guess. I never watched it but it was always on my mental "to do" list of stuff to watch, read, listen to, etc, when I got a chance. Man that sucks. I had always sort of imagined it was like Buffy, only with Superman.

1) Gotham isn't an East Coast city. It's wherever it needs to be. (kind of like Batman, come to think of it). Remember that whole 6 issue deal where Bruce Wayne travels forward through time to get back home? In different issues Gotham was on the ocean where the pirates were, in the old west where the cowboys were, in…

I want you to know that, as gimmicks go, this is a good one. Feel free to keep it up indefinately.

Good stratagy.Which reminds me, didn't "Black Hole" originally appear in "Zero Zero"? Now that was a good anthology comic. "Mome" has always been too expensive for me to feel like buying it, knowing that only half would be great and half would be scribbles with scatology by angry autistics.

How do you tell a good Lil Wayne recording from a bad one? 
Seriously, how?

What a relief to know I'm not the only person who lost the thread with Superboy. That has always been the level of nonsense that held me up. Multiple Earths are fine, because how else can you have Jay Garrick and Barry Allen? Besides, every ten year old geek know there are multiple dimensions. But how can Superboy and…

I'll
just say that allowing users to "vote out" comments made the Achewood comments board boring and self congradulating.(for instance, if you thought Chris O had crossed the line into racism, and you said so, you were guaranteed to have your comment voted off) Sometimes a troll is just a troll, but sometimes one…

Since when do black people not like Elvis?

?"Arc" is awesome! Way more listenable than Metal Machine Music.

And, it's true!
Or at least fairly true by Hollywood standards. Supposedly, the two oldest household electrical appliances are the electric tea kettle, and the vibrator. The light bulb and electric fan came along sometime later.

If you want to try again, I'd suggest the Sunday color strips. Look at them as if they are paintings before even trying to follow the "sequential art" flow. And give up your expectation of them being "funny" or even making clear sense. Smoking some herb might also help. Seriously.

Nevermind. I know what you're talking about. Those old Hostess ads in which Batman or Superman would go through a whole little mini-adventure just to hand out some Twinkies or Ho-Hos in the last panel. Good nostalgia.

A timing issue
The Man Who Grew His Beard piques my interest, but Amazon says it isn't scheduled for release until October. Of course that could be BS and I'll see it in a bookstore tonight, but if it really is that far off wouldn't it be better to wait on the review? By October I'll have forgotten it.

And then suddenly, Voldemort!

You live in Australia? Or New Zealand? I feel no sympathy for you. Only envy. But if it's New Guinea or South Africa or Paraguay, ok, I'm sorry.

oh, shiiiiiiit…
H.R Pufnstuf is on Netflix streaming. There goes the weekend.
BTW, in that first paragraph you use the term "take advantage" and make it sound like there was something sleazy or underhanded about the Kroft's career. Is there? (And I don't count "spicy" puppets as sleazy. That sounds pretty cool.)