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So the comments section will be filled with the titles of everyone else's favorite comics. Really, its impossible to please everyone, and there are great comics telling every type of story, from autobiographical (Harvey Pekar) to non-fiction (March) to historical to crime to literary to horror to super-heroes to

Somewhere around 2005 they got continuity-heavy and everything seemed to build toward a Big Event, usually called Crisis Something. Many comics felt like they were cogs in a corporate plan rather than an actual, inventive story that a writer was allowed to have fun with.

This list reminds me of those Top Ten album lists that are filled with baby boomer white rock, as if funk, soul, rap, blues and jazz never existed, and no rock existed until the Beatles started getting stoned. Saga/Sex Criminals/Scott Pilgrim/Blankets are all very good but all come from a certain sensibility. I could

"Origins of Marvel Comics" is indeed a wonderful introduction to the major Marvel characters like Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four and Thor, and a great chronicle about how the company grew from struggling minor publisher to the industry's top dog in a pretty short period of time. But it needs to be mentioned that

Paul Simon was a senator from Illinois, but now he's dead and we only have the singer left.

"That song is terrible, actually everything post-Faces has been pretty bad, but if you want to give me half your royalties, I'm good with that, Rod."

The superhero collective has been continuously published since 1964, while Macnee and Rigg's show went off the air in 1969.

The last time I was there, this one waitress looked exactly like Selena Gomez, and I tipped accordingly.

Hooters the rock band and Hooters the breast-centered restaurant chain!

It's not a cover version of Dylan's song, it's an entirely new song. The only similarity between the lyrics is that Dylan and Stewart both repeat the phrase "forever young," otherwise they are singing two totally different things.

I have a couple:

Those songs were really catchy, I have to admit.

I know people who avidly attend these kind of movies, and I need to get stocked up on excuses to beg off. They need to be vague but believable.

In the preview, Leggero says "I'm tighter than a Jew's wallet down there," which may be the filthiest thing I've ever heard.

You could have saved me some Internet searching by just confirming that the blond is the tall one from Garfunkel and Oates.
This looks like the latest series from Comedy Central that I will watch and enjoy. Leggero is great.

Ah yes, blame the Catholic Church for your lack of box office. Why not.

Doesn't Ferrell's character say he's heading "to the Mackinaw Bridge" near the end? And of course because I live in Michigan I'm expecting the massiveness of the real Bridge, but it turns out he's just headed for a puny little generic bridge.

I found it fascinating. This is the kind of movie that you could watch with your grandmother, and she would be taking it seriously because the poor diabetic girl is kidnapped by losers, and you would be laughing because you actually know who Wiig and Ferrell are. How great is that.

Disappointing to hear this. I was hoping that a superb artist tackling the worst company on earth would result in something fun, but it sounds like he got preachy.

That animation is great. 1970s baseball had fascinating players and teams.