Sandman is hands-down great, don't worry. Although the first volume is a fair bit weaker than the rest of the series. It might actually be better to start with The Doll's House (which is what I did). And there are a few things that haven't aged well (some of the LGBT stuff in A Game of You is what comes to mind)… but…

Oh, so it's all right if Arya does that kind of thing, but when it's Cersei….

To a degree, superhero comics are something of a "you had to be there" experience. That is, if you didn't get into them growing up, it may be hard to get their appeal. For example, I love the X-Men, but I'm the first to admit the comics are ridiculous, melodramatic, and convoluted to an insane degree. That's part of…

The villain won and the heroes lined up behind him as collaborators. Even if peace prevails, the means by which it was achieved paints a picture of corrupt iniquity. And it was certainly no happy ending for the newsstand crew — who are the heart of Watchmen to me. They're dead, Jim.

The Honey and Clover movie is supposedly decent, although I still have no desire to watch it.

To be fair, someone dies tragically every goddamn day in BSG.

Well, yeah, I get that. I still want it, because I feel that their character concepts are strong enough to handle the change, and the status quo could use a shakeup. The old stories will be preserved in a way that fits the era of their creation.

I want to see Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne respectively pass on the mantle of Superman and Batman to new heroes. Not in the Azrael sense. A true passing of the torch.

Sure, but we're really talking about the whiff of a terrible film here… in all probability, the film won't be great, but the cast doesn't scream "terrible" to a lot of us. Closer to "promising."

Yeah, I'm pretty happy reading ebooks, but I love physical books — I straight-out love 'em. I often buy pristine first editions of books I've already read. But I've also got lots of ratty, dog-eared paperbacks that I also love to death.

I've never bought a lot of CDs, but the ones I do own are part of my collection… not a valuable collection by any means, but an assemblage of fairly obscure Asian indie music that is not very easy to come by.

This month, I held two garage sales trying to get rid of stuff. And we still have tons of stuff. I might just bury it in a landfill somewhere.

I enjoyed Spectre, but it pales beside the less artsy but more bang-up Rogue Nation.

Why do so many insist on treating hyperbole with brain-numbing literal-mindedness these days? I guess it's useless to complain, but today, I happen to be in a snit!

As an Asian who had a very brief fling with acting… yes, things are better than before, but outside the kind of stuff that gets a lot of notice here on AVC, Asians still tend to be relegated to "Asian" roles in a lot of media.

Well, it's been around since at least Jane Austen's Emma, although Mr. Knightley was hardly some poor sap pining for the girl.

I didn't see madness there. Certainly a touch of something that, if taken too far, ends up with the Mad King. But not to that extent, not yet.

At the moment, they are allies. She's just letting them know that once their alliance is done, all bets are off.

I'm not sure that Brienne even knows who Shireen is, and she wasn't witness to her fate.

As terrible as "Helo" is, on my second go-around, I had to admire a show that made its "maverick hero cop" character such an unlikable asshole. Way to subvert viewer expectations, baby!