At least I'll be a drunk horrible piece of shit! There is no way that I'm not talking a friend into marathoning this with me after we're too blasted not to marathon Fuller House.

I never found another one online that I liked as much. It was disappointing.

I hope not. I'm seeing one on Friday and she's been extremely sweet so far.

Nobody ever sees the ol' headbutt to the ankle coming!

This is close to my position. I don't generally think of "good" and "bad"

Quite so, and it's a fine line between reinterpretation and deconstruction. I'd say that the latter requires the text to specifically evoke questions about how a certain thing works. Reinterpretation might make more sense as a larger category of which deconstruction is a subset.

Yep. I wasn't talking about it as part of his work in the 90s, but rather as a sort of bookend on the other side of his deconstruction period.

I've always thought of it as basically a subset of practicality. Americans are sometimes the ones with the delusion that they don't need society. We know that nature will kill you if you don't have people helping you survive. Being overly polite is just a way of keeping the gears greased so that we can all get…

True enough. Though it does pull them in to a surprising extent, it's not really about them.

Nice! I should actually, like, read a modern DC comic for once.

That's the thing. I'm not interested in the character suddenly becoming heroic. Having her break away and becoming a force of her own in the underworld, though? Much, much more interesting.

I'd be curious to see her start a gang, old-school Batman style. She would have some fucking bizarre minions.

Well-put. That's why I figured that Fury Road goes after Road Warrior and also why I don't think it matters that much. Mad Max is a lawman from before the end who could never kick the habit of helping people. That's the core of his character and the secret to his archetype. He's Natural Law, the desperate hope…

That's the one! It tells you all you need to know about that gimmick, really.

If everyone had to stop talking about their opinions of possible crimes until such times as those crimes are tried (if at all), then a) many possible crimes couldn't even be discussed and b) everybody's speech would be beholden to a system that is demonstrably not always accurate to reality. You're not saying that…

Johnny Beyond was my favourite one! It was such a ridiculously fun little story. I wish that character existed beyond the pages of that issue.

Moore didn't really spend all that much time in deconstruction mode, though. As soon as the 90s hit, he went straight into reconstruction. I just read through his Swamp Thing run and I don't see that as being particularly deconstructionist either, at least after the first few issues.

He had the most gloriously stupid entrance theme music ever. It's at a Spinal Tap level of lyricism.

I don't know if I'd survive a night with Mel Lastman.

I'd slot it in after Road Warrior, but I otherwise agree. The abstract timeline makes sense. It's kind of like Robin Hood: Robin opposes King John, forms the Merry Men, competes in the archery tournament in disguise, topples King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham, dies by treachery, and fires an arrow to mark his…