“I don’t care that it’s for DC, I just love doing cameos!”
--I sincerely love that this was one of the last appearances of his to make theaters while he was still alive. I know there’s more coming, but it’s such a genuinely entertaining and slightly self-ribbing take from a man who, from everything have heard,…

One thing I will indirectly give the special - this aspect was responsible for a wonderfully sick string of jokes from We Hate Movies on their episode discussing Seventh Son.

Simply put - Zero Bumble Thirty.

“My name’s Talking Tina and I don’t like you...”

*throws his Christmas special spec script on the fire*

Just as well...

End this with Santa having a Twilight Zone style screaming breakdown of “I’M THE GOD! I’M THE GOD!!!” and you’ve got yourself a Christmas special, my good man!

Santa warned that motherfucker what’d happen if he didn’t shut up.
An example had to be made.

This is where I’m apparently the ultra-freak - the bulk of my Rankin-Bass nostalgia isn’t reserved for their holiday specials, but their Tolkien adaptations.

(Okay, I’ll concede that, a few good bits aside, that Return of the King adaptation is a mess, but I will fucking throw down for their version of The Hobbit.)

Prettymuch this. The first iteration was born out of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, so it makes it in by the two sweetest words in the English language - de-fault.

There’s other songs where this could work.

Unfortunately, this is not one of them, because seemingly like clockwork, every year or two, some other duet decides the world needs YET ANOTHER BLOODY COVER OF IT.

...seriously, these past few years, I’m already half sick of the song even before the debate gets started.

Every year, Bob Geldorf secretly prays for it, that he may be spared his creation shambling the earth once more.

Every year, his prayers go unanswered.

“Have a holly jolly Christmas, and in case you somehow just missed the thing I’ve been saying over and over for the past two minutes, well oh by golly have a holly jolly Christmas this year!”

Leonard Shelby: “Huh...Burl Ives. *reads* Don’t believe his festiveness. He is the one. Kill him.”

There’s a reason why one of his best roles in the past 20 years was Les Grossman, the balding, paunchy, foul-mouthed studio head in Tropic Thunder. Even under all that makeup, you could tell Cruise was relishing being able to play a completely unleashed and unapologetic asshole.

Watanabe gets arguably the best line read in the movie with “Let them fight!” but otherwise, yeah, he’s pretty squandered.

Going off the definition from UrbanDictionary:

I’m trying to get excited about this. I really am.
I know Mignola’s been talking it up in a big way, and I like Marshall’s stuff in general.

But the fact that so much of the sales pitch just keeps coming back to ‘Darker and more violent’ as their baseline leaves me...very cautious.
If you didn’t think GDT’s version was…

I went through the whole list of comments for this, and am surprised no one’s said it yet:

“Here’s a tip - a beard is no substitute for a jawline, no matter how you trim it!” -- Henchman #24, The Venture Bros

Hell, I’d argue Maher has done more damage in this game than Stan or any of his colleagues individually have.

Thing is, the parts of him that feel like they’d be from a comic book are more in overtly villainous characters.
I’ve said it before, I will say it again - if Donald Trump has any comic book alter-ego, it’s Gary ‘The Smiler’ Callahan from Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan a - leering, rictus-grinning presidential…

Mr. Maher, your response?
[Cue supercut of Maher espousing Islamophobia and bantering trans-bashing with Milo Yiannopolous]

I don’t doubt said supercut could be longer and with more in it, those were just the two biggest examples coming to mind.

If we’re putting all cards on the table, I do feel inclined to point out the media doesn’t have to share the sole blame for the increased tribalism, though it does bear a lot of it.
If there’s anything remotely resembling justice in this world, Newt Gingrich will take his place in history as the figure within the…