No kidding.  That's what makes Smith's "crusade" extra-douchey.  Without some VERY generous critics lauding him 18 years ago, he'd still be at that fucking Quick Stop.

No kidding.  That's what makes Smith's "crusade" extra-douchey.  Without some VERY generous critics lauding him 18 years ago, he'd still be at that fucking Quick Stop.

So why did he make GARFIELD, then?

So why did he make GARFIELD, then?

@avclub-64f027640f63616a277e92096313264f:disqus, seriously, that's fucking insane.  Are you a "troll?"  Am I being "trolled?"  Where's the camera, which way should I be facing?

@avclub-64f027640f63616a277e92096313264f:disqus, seriously, that's fucking insane.  Are you a "troll?"  Am I being "trolled?"  Where's the camera, which way should I be facing?

More hand gestures!  I can't grasp any of your nuances, sir!

More hand gestures!  I can't grasp any of your nuances, sir!

I tried to give DETECTIVE COMICS but the Joker's sliced-off face nailed to a wall was enough for me.  I don't mind gore, but Batman isn't a fucking horror character.

No, other bands play - Manowar kills.
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That one ("Somehow Satan Got Behind Me") was written by Darin Morgan, the genius who also wrote the X-FILES eps where Peter Boyle is a psychic insurance salesman, where Mulder and Scully investigate murders in a town of circus performers, and the classic "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space.'"  What the fuck happened to…

That was one of the problems with the show at first, they kept insisting it WASN'T a psychic link, it was ust some absurdly high degree of intuition or something.  They kept dancing around and then finally in the second season they said, "Okay, you're right, they're visions."

The twist?  Schisms tear the group apart when Ryder starts shoplifting again.

Season 1 was well-intended, but SOOOO stodgy and dull and colorless.  Season 2, although I didn't like Lara Means much either, was pretty fantastic.  I found the mythology fascinating.  And then Season 3 turned the show into the laziest of X-FILES rip-offs and I gave up completely.

Kids grew up a lot quicker in post-war America.

David Robert Jones' evil uncle, perhaps?

That was the first season, but during the second season Chris Carter got bored and wandered off and the show got pretty fascinating with an ongoing storyline about secret societies working to bring about the Apocalypse.  Then Carter came back and said, "Hey, let's forget all that stuff, and give Frank a younger female…

One of the best theme songs of the 1980s.  (From Mike Post, who also gave us the theme for THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO!)  http://www.youtube.com/watc…

@leave_the_silver_city I believe that BRIMSTONE was rerun by Chiller at some point.

I'm surprised Bendis hasn't made Uncle Ben the Supreme Hydra yet.