I'm through the first Time Runs Out HC. I don't even bother buying Hickman books monthly, it's a miserable reading experience to me.

I don't know, I think I'd be angrier if I were reading Avengers only. The New Avengers stuff I've seen has been very… contained within itself. The Fall of Wakanda, the Cabal, etc… is only playing out in NA, at least in its first couple issues, while Avengers is entirely reacting to NA.

Definitely. Though even sitting down to read his entire Manhattan Projects HC at once, that one just did nothing for me. I dig his stuff, but he's super uneven to me.

The "Cap Through Time" story? Man, I hated that. Some of that may be because I hadn't yet read all of his FF stuff and maybe there were some tie-ins, but I recall that being the only time during my Big Hickman Read that I wanted to give up completely.

I will say, I found Hickman's FF dull as hell in single issues and even in trades, and I had the exact same experience with Avengers… and I subsequently very much enjoyed Hickman's FF when I could read 30 issues at a time, and I had the exact same experience with… New Avengers. Avengers is still a pretty mediocre…

I hope you aren't talking smack about Javier Pulido's work on She-Hulk here. I mean, I know you're mistakenly talking smack about Erica Henderson, but I'll let that slide because we're only one issue in. But man, picking two of the most well-drawn books in Marvel's current catalog to take on… that's risky.

My pick for their best book is The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage, but that's hardly representative of their entire line. For that, you'll probably want Archer & Armstrong or X-O Manowar. There are 'deluxe' HCs of all their longest running books that collect a year's worth of comics, if you find one you really like, the…

He actually is entirely useless. He can't fight at all (it's not even an option) and has no abilities other than getting people to do things for him.

(It's already On Demand)

Netflix captioning describes it as (cooing)

Yeah, this was a case of the writer not following through on the premise of the joke he had set up over and over so that he could use a gendered slur. A surprisingly lazy, poorly-conceived moment.

Possibly by having 'characters' and a 'plot'. That'll help.

I'm in the same boat, though I do think that The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage #1 is the single best issue the company has put out in the last couple years. I'll be interested to see how the series concludes, and if Jen Van Meter does anything else with Valiant.

Gorgeous art, Sorrentino is a superstar in the making. The scripts were… not quite up to that level. But it's a damn pretty run to look at.

I mean, you already know for a fact that at least one single person playing this game DID do just that, so… congratulations on creating a self-defeating argument?

I like how you refer to 'Asian people' as 'the monsters' in this game.

Except, of course, Saints Row IV had the benefit of being the fourth game in a franchise and playing with the expectations gamers have for sequels being "More of the same, but bigger," in increasingly bizarre ways. The first Saints Row was reasonably grounded; with every subsequent game, they tried to play with the…

I'm sorry to see you go, Sonia. I've loved your reviews, and look forward to checking in with them in the future. I hope you're given as much space to dig in to each episode.

Not necessarily. Most major companies will have a social media employee or small sub-department within marketing; it's entirely possible his focus is on a completely different division. It's also possible that he helps with the corporate social marketing part, which 1) doesn't necessarily require a personal Facebook…

See, I thought I recalled from the pilot that aired on Hulu a month ago that the boss made Henry's wedding invitation conditional on him having a date, commenting that people found it uncomfortable the way he was constantly alone.