In the early days of the internet, I used to contribute to a website called The Dysfunctional Family Circus. It wasn't super unique… people would submit their own grotesque captions to Family Circus cartoons… but the submissions were moderated and only the best were kept, which made the quality high and turned it…

Nerdy for sure, but like I said, I credit the guy's work with opening up my mind and accepting weirdness as a kid. A story with themes that make you more tolerant of sexual subcultures probably can make you more tolerant of other ways of being different (and is written by people who want that). I can't disapprove.

People say his stuff has this undercurrent of BDSM, but I'm not really connected to that culture at all and never picked up on it. Is it that prominent?

Liefeld is worse than everything.

It's weird they wouldn't have Cypher in it. Magma and Warlock seem a bit risky… the chances of them looking silly in a live-action movie are a bit high.

Akira.

I seriously doubt it'll be a slasher movie. I'm thinking "horror" in a Cronenberg sense.

I actually seriously wonder if Claremont's X comics affected my politics and cultural sense in a really subtle way, years later. He perfected the metaphor of "mutants are marginalized people" and more than that, he might have given me a tolerance for weirdness and ambiguity that pervades everything.

As much as I love XStatix, I feel like the moment has passed… the culture that was being mocked was so 2000s.

To undercut the tropes, the one character they almost certainly will kill is the gay one (so they can bring her back in the sequel as the secret, morbidly obese villain).

It's good they're doing something different, and I really like there being a horror X-Men and it works to give it to the New Mutants. But if they're doing horror, I really hope they keep Claremont's vibe. It's stupid and trite, but as an adolescent, I found my brother's old X-Men and New Mutant comics, and they just…

Actually, Warlock could if he wanted to.

Demon Bear or Mojo. CHRIST Mojo is creepy

I'd just like to note how hilarious it is that alt-right creeps are ignoring this post about Trump's budget, but they raided an article about The Rock like goddamn Visigoths.

Probably more fun than whoever goes to parties and then flips out about whatever political correctness they happen to observe there.

You heard it here first, kids: unless you've been kidnapped, held for years against your will, and subjected to multiple instances of sexual assault, then complaining about anything means that you're a BABY.

d…did you guys think you really had to seriously clear up that the orb was not a magical, wish-granting device out of fantasy fiction?

Bobby and Vanessa are ACTORS first, and I always feel like that's the type that should thrive post-SNL, but it never is (poor Tim Meadows and Jan Hooks and Molly Shannon).

This has the form of a clever gotcha bon mot, but it doesn't actually make any sense.

I think he's actually from Florida.