I watched films at the Tribeca film festival until my eyes bled. (Or at least until they felt kind of uncomfortable and I decided to go back to the hotel and work.) Feature interviews with new directors will start posting soon. Anyone else here at the festival?

@avclub-84b4a393d7fe6b0b9fba562ae2062d21:disqus Yeah, and the end of that scene, where Elastigirl leaves, and Violet puts her mask on and steps out of the cave and just stands there looking completely alone, and hugely vulnerable, but totally determined, maybe for the first time ever… gives me chills every time.

They're friends and frequent collaborators and business partners; it's really unlikely that I could have gotten a frank answer about that. I'd love to know his thoughts too, but he was very on-studio-message for this interview; I think you have to pick your battles in terms of what you can get an interviewee to talk…

I did have some questions about him and Stanton making the leap to live-action at the same time, but our time was limited and we didn't get there. During prep for this, I read a number of interviews where he talked about commiserating with Stanton and the two of them touching base at various points during their…

No. He's already deep into his next project, which he's been wanting to make for many years: http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

It's not only my favorite Pixar, but one of my favorite movies, period. Other people's mileage may vary, but I got your back.

Not for me. The first book has a series of reveals that are very compelling, but I was more interested in where the story went after that, particularly in terms of the decisions the main character has to make, and how expansive the situation becomes.

We're always interested in what draws comments, because that does drive additional page views, but the most commented on articles are often not remotely close to the most popular ones, and traffic matters much, much more. An article that gets 15k pageviews and 20 comments is much better for us than an article that…

You're officially the first to notice. Congrats!

It briefly had a B- due to a glitch in the data entry. This was the original grade.

Oh, interesting. He's got a new adult book coming out this year, which Todd was excited about covering; didn't realize he did YA too.

Well, we're not intending to focus on bad ones, so much as we want to review new releases and find the interesting and worthwhile ones that we actually enjoyed and would recommend. Given how much YA is coming out right now, it seems useful to have a group of people trying to curate some of it for AVC readers. And…

His Dark Materials would absolutely count, though the first book of that series in particular is such a standout that I'm not holding out for discovering a new book in that vein anytime soon. Still, we want to take a closer look at the genre and find as many adult-worthy gems as we can.

The plan is to start with new-release YA for the first handful of installments, then jump back to some older releases we particularly want to talk about. This is primarily intended as a review column for new books we wind up liking and finding worthy of larger discussion, but we'll be expanding into old and noteworthy…

Really? We don't have as many fans of historical fiction on staff, but we cover more straight fantasy than any other genre, except possibly biographies.

Yeah, @avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus , I agree that "Futurama" isn't a good example of a series with a plausible backstory. I threw that in solely in response to Keith's "Sleeper" comment because I thought those two made a valid comparison on their own, not because it bolsters my larger argument.

You need to click on "Contact us," @avclub-498b40dc293b99f641e822f74cfdc35b:disqus , then scroll the slider bar down to "I'm a hypochondriac." Then type your message. It'll go to the right people.

Y'know, for kids!

In fairness, I later realized it probably should have gotten an A-. I apologized to his widow.

No, no, I understand that by "you all" you meant the AVC, @avclub-88c03b34bb3d00bab7dbe9fde05e020e:disqus . What I'm saying is, I'm the only one reading the comments in this piece, and only at this point to continue reassuring people that we're fixing the error. On a busy day, the core staffers might not read comments…