Narrative drive is more important than 'realism'. Adding in a PETA plot would have contributed nothing to airtime.

Oh, just you wait for "The Last of the Innocent."

I didn't like his first Swamp Thing issue, but his Swamp Thing #23.1 issue, "Arcane", was better than Scott Snyder's entire run combined, at least in my opinion. Soule seems like a guy who is great with characters but weak with story.

Soy's art was good in a lot of ways, but awful for DeConnick's story. It was the reason I dropped the book so early, though I came back in trade.

Most librarians, myself included, didn't actually mind Building Stories, other than the fact that it was a PAIN to catalog and circulate. Because it was really, really good. Ware has earned that right. Abrams has not.

The only time I ever spent real money on comics was when I dropped 250$ to pick up all three Absolute Promethea's, and holy sweet Jesus those things are beautiful.

No one reads TV Club Classic anymore, because the AV Club has become a sad and desolate place.

And they just keep getting funnier and funnier - something I didn't imagine could happen after the fourth movie not only took Pinhead to space, but ALSO had Adam Scott as a pampered 17th century French aristocrat.

Aw, how can you truly hate "Season of the Witch"? It's such a weird, funny, half-formed movie - it has that sad little spark of life that most of the post-Halloween 1 films in the series lacked.

I don't know, I think most of the actors have at least one bad Bond film (except Dalton and Lazenby, because of their too-brief tenures) - Moore just has more, and they're generally worse. But Brosnan has Die Another Day, Craig has Quantum of Solace, even Connery has Diamonds Are Forever which admittedly is less bad…

What the fuck does Robert Pattinson have to do with the Comics Code Autho—oh. I had forced myself to forget that Pat Robertson existed. Thanks for reminding me.

DO NOT DUCK FROM THE TRUTH, @Scrawler2:disqus. STAND BOLD AND PROCLAIM IT LOUDLY FOR ALL TO HEAR.

Oh, it'd probably be more casual than that - if you're doing 24 hours in a row, you're going to be eating, goofing off, getting randomly distracted, wandering around the apartment, etc….

I'm still trying to convince friends that doing a 24-Hours of Horror (or of any movies) would actually be a ton of fun. I'd feel weird doing it on my own. That wouldn't stop me… but I'd feel weird.

They were totally allowed to lie, but no one in other tribes ever called them on it. It's in bad taste.

Even better is how fantastically dedicated everyone is to it. For example, the 'Courage' clan (Dauntless) travels Chicago by riding on a neverending L train and leaping from the moving trains onto buildings. This is a regular source of death for them, but you are exiled/killed if you refuse to travel like that.

Sadly, the reason so many of these 'chosen heroes' are so popular is because they have no discernible personality, which means that 1) they are special because they are born special, rather than because they worked really hard to become special, and 2) the reader can imagine the hero(ine) however they want, and thus…

Civilization is divided into 5 tribes based on a single personality trait. Selflessness, courage, intelligence, honesty, another one that doesn't matter. If you try and have more than one personality trait, you are exiled or killed, I can't remember.

Counterpoint: I despised the first book. There were some cool ideas and Roth is good at writing something that you don't want to put down, but the 'teen gimmick' in this one (everyone chooses a clan that is defined by a single trait - selflessness, intelligence, bravery, truth, some other one) is pretty silly and the…

To me, Minutemen was by and large just too polite, too well-paced, too reverent. Silk Spectre at least had the chance to flesh out Watchmen's shallowest character and made the smart play of riffing on teen romance comics to do so; Minutemen was well-made mediocrity.