No, no, let's not get confused here.  Everyone on Earth-2 is one generation older, so obviously their Jack Bauer is played by Donald rather than Kiefer.

It's possible that that's a creative way to describe Gale's request for the equipment and facilities needed to meet Gus' required meth supply.  I'd have to go back and watch the scene to see if that interpretation holds up though.

That line always cracks me up.  "Fried drumstick."  Tee hee.

First time I noticed him was as the crazy gimpy investigative reporter/patsy in BOB ROBERTS.  He had this great jittery energy that's about as anti-Fring as you can get.  Esposito has some great range as an actor, and it's exciting to see him get to shine on BREAKING BAD every week.

Now I'm doing the YouTube mash-up of AIRPLANE and BUCKAROO BANZAI in my mind.

Also, future Oscar nominee Ed Harris gets a tombstone dropped on him by a zombie.  And Adrienne Barbeau gets eaten by an immortal baboon monster.  MAN, what a swell movie.

I mix those two up all the time.

THE GIRL, THE GOLD WATCH, AND EVERYTHING.  Yeah I was hoping for that mention too.

Because the Reboot story, which began for metafictional reasons (a mechanism intended to clean up the DCU back in 1985), has now become a subgenre in and of itself.  Reboots aren't a tool used to clean up continuity; they're told deliberately, because writers and editors actually think they make for great stories for…

They called that the "Vertigo Drift."  For a while it wasn't that Swamp Thing et al were no longer in the DCU; they just were in a corner that never talked about superheroes or -villains.  Then one day they were completely separate.  It wasn't done very well.

Ripple effect.

I really liked Slott's run on SHE-HULK, and it kills me that I can't read his stuff on ASM because I swore off the Spider books until ONE MORE DAY gets nullified.  Alas.

THANK you.  So sick of Bendis' inexplicable strangehold on the Marvel Universe.  Guy consistently manages to pack 4 pages' worth of story into every 22 page comic.

Hell, I knew the difference between Earths-1, -2, -3, -S, and -X when I was ten years old. And if there's something that the editors think will confuse people, that's what caption boxes are for.

uh. Kyle Rayner as the best GL? Surely you jest, sir. He's not even a good GL. He's not even a good character. At his best, he's bland enough to safely ignore without dragging the rest of the story down. At his worst, he just fucking sucks.

Hmm. Does that mean the All-Star line is officially dead and buried, then? Or is Frank Miller still threatening to inflict more of his terrible, terrible BATMAN AND ROBIN on the world?

The hovering Coke machine killer sentinels saved the book for me.

Oddly enough I zipped right through LISEY'S STORY even though ultimately there wasn't much of a story there at all. It could have been short story - novella-length would have been pushing it. Maybe I just wanted to finish the damned thing.

Honestly, I don't remember much about INSOMNIA other than I thought it was really dull. I liked the main character, Ralph, a lot. But beyond that all I remember are the huge, sprawling internal monologues for the pro-life nutcase, which reminded me of the huge anti-nuclear-power rant that the drunk guy spouts in THE…

Where did King admit that? That would be weird, considering INSOMNIA is a major plot point for THE DARK TOWER VII.