Lars Von Trier! I knew it was him! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was him!

“Thanks.”

Luke wins because he gets through to Vader. Vader believed that he was stuck on the “dark side” because of all the terrible things he did. Obi-Wan and Yoda thought so, too, because they wouldn’t let Luke consider doing anything other than killing Vader. By refusing to play the “light side/dark side” game with…

For real - it doesn’t seem to me like many people understand that Luke Skywalker is the hero of Star Wars because he chucked all that “light side/dark side” stuff out the window purposefully. I have a feeling The Last Jedi is going to reveal that Luke fucked everything up by trying to go back to the dogmatic…

Other people have touched on it, but there isn’t just one problem facing the comic book industry today and there isn’t one cure-all strategy that will bring it back from the brink. The industry started painting itself into a corner as far back as the early 70s, when fans like Roy Thomas and John Byrne became pros.…

There’s a practical reason to own a Corvette, though. Even if you’re not taking it to a track to open it up and do 120, you can still use it to get to work and pick up groceries and whatever. If the only way you can legally use an assault rifle is to take it to a special place and shoot at things that don’t need to be…

Serious question: Is that it?

There is a kernel of a good idea in Man of Steel, one that most versions of Superman don’t really deal with - the idea of how much of himself Clark Kent is willing to give the rest of the world. If the only limitations Superman has are the ones he puts on himself, is it right for him to pretend to be normal sometimes?…

This was me - I tuned out of football almost completely about three years ago because of all the CTE issues and the NFL’s unwillingness to do much about it. It’s really hard to have fun watching these dudes practically commit suicide on the field. Then again, “fun” hasn’t been what the NFL has been about for a really…

There’s a segment of people out there who desperately want to believe that there’s no point to anything, which gives them the right never to give a shit about anything, feel no shame, and be completely self-absorbed. Whether it’s Walter White, Tyler Durden, Eric Cartman, or now Rick Sanchez, these people always find…

He said he has a list!

Dammit, Pantera, this beer is warm!

The other side of that coin is that Marvel made a lot of changes to its characters when it translated them into movies and was rewarded with billions of dollars from people who will never buy a comic book in their lives. The problem is that the comics industry spent decades not caring about bringing in new customers…

On the other hand, they already did try to capitalize on a wave of huge publicity created by the Spider-Man and X-Men movies by creating the Ultimate line specifically for new readers. And even though they were well-written and unburdened by years of confusing continuity, they were overwhelmingly bought by the same…

There’s a spot near my house where you can stand and see three separate Mattress Firm locations without turning your head. Two of them are directly across the street from each other. There are three more within a quarter-mile of that spot.

They do that a lot with the Christmas-related material, it seems. Did you want to watch “Scrooged” within 30 days of Christmas? Sorry! It also seems hilariously cruel to me as the father of a small kid that the Curious George Halloween special is one of those things disappearing from Netflix as of Oct. 1.

Well it looks like those clowns in marketing are at it again. What a bunch of clowns.

No apologies necessary, I can understand that this is something you feel very strongly about. And maybe some of the outrage being directed at this guy is motivated by jealousy or something else. But that doesn’t change anything about it. This guy is an adult, he knew he was being scrutinized, he knew what he said was…

I stop my kid from dropping racial slurs online by raising him to respect other people, to understand that words/actions have consequences, to get control of his emotions and to have some perspective about exactly how important video games are in the grand scheme of things. In short, I parent. Like you said, that’s my…

I give a shit about this because I don’t want my kid to grow up into a smirking little shit like this asshole. I want to know who the assholes are so I can tell my kid that they’re assholes. I don’t want my kid thinking it’s okay to be an asshole because “lol who cares.”