The Founders sounds like the name of a terrible right-wing punk band.

You know, this was a cute show back when I was a kid. But I don't personally need to read monthly reports about the progress of the property.

If you watch a lot of his standup post-Chapelle Show, it's clear that cellphone recording really annoys the shit out him and has for a long time, as he brings it up in passing a lot. "You guys YouTubing me over there?" That sort of thing. I understand why it'd be a problem for a standup developing an act and I respect…

I had Prince's "Cream" on cassingle. Cream shaboogie bop, indeed.

No. Missed opportunity.

No joke. Woke Up Laughing is killer.

I listened to Kerosene Hat over the Thanksgiving holiday. I think it's aged pretty well.

I will sit right here waiting on the gift of "Merry Christmas".

Yeah, that's pretty much my point. To me, Emma Frost works best when she's just horrible like that. Where she's that combination of "I hate you" and "I want you". It's the perfect head of an organization like The Hellfire Club, which is, among other things, just a big metaphor for the cool kids table in high school.

Buncha guys with strong opinions about what went wrong with the Transformers series complaining that some people are excited about the return of Ecto Cooler.

Here's the problem with the X-men: Too damn many good characters who only really work as part of an ensemble.

I was reading during that same era and I'll concur: Nobody cared about the Avengers. We were too busy buying Venom alternate covers with holograms on 'em.

Not with that attitude, they aren't. Come on. Don't you want to read story after story about a super heroine with magic prehensile hair?

Good point. I do think there are still some ways the civil rights metaphor could still be used by X-men writers, especially in the age of #blacklivesmatter, but I agree that it probably works best as garnish at this point.

You hung in there a lot longer than I did. I started reading around the same time and I think I lasted about two years before giving up. I still have a great affection for many of those characters and situations, but it was clearly a convoluted mess, even then.

I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.

Yeah. I mean, I'll honestly probably never go back to reading X-men comics ever again, but every time I see one of these X-men relaunches and freaking Emma Frost is on the cover in a porny bustier, standing next to Professor X, I just think, "Nope". I hear that they did interesting things with her character,…

Yeah, but he challenged it by turning into random gimmicks, celebrities horsing around and live-action Buzzfeed lists. Which isn't really what people like you and me meant when we said we wanted someone to shake up the talk show format. (Also, I'm not sure how different it is from what Merv Griffin used to do.)

Live a little, be a Kirby, get around (get around).
Get your puff up off the ground, live a little get around…

It's one of the reasons I like Don't Look Back more than the more lionizing No Direction Home.