If it's any consolation, I honestly took no offense. I didn't even see anything offensive - I changed my name, it takes a while for the info to move out through the world. I don't think you're the first "who is this Tegan O'Neil?" comment I'll ever get. Thank you for your sentiment, but please know I took no offense…

No.

We are having two different arguments here. In the 50s and 60s, yeah, there was no thought given to these characters being imperishable trademarks. But beginning in the late 70s and right on through to today it became a lot different, which is why so many announcements from the Big 2 these days - and for decades -…

I'll defend the characterization because her motivations begin from a relatively good place (as you can see in that page from the SECRET ORIGINS book). This is one of the things that she realizes at the tail end of the book: she has tools that she can use for the relative good, as well as the terribly selfish. A great…

My TF knowledge is pretty deep but also out of date - I'm a Budiansky / Furman truther, basically. This is the first TF comic since then anyone has made sound at all worth reading.

Sssshhhh I have been planning to check it out for a while

If you're an old concept that ever had any kind of name recognition in comics, you will never rest. You will forever haunt the comic stands at periodic intervals - six issues here, twenty there, wow, one ran for a whole fifty issues! Some of them are even good. But the whole point is to take old ideas that didn't sell…

Fair cop, but every other version of the sentence I tried was clunky and inelegant. Figured it'd be best to correct in the comments.

I'll agree with everything Caitlyn says here, and also say that I try to pay attention to what people say in the comments. That's how I discovered HENCHGIRL, and I believe we were the first (or at least one of the very first) to give that strip any attention. And now Kristen Gudsnuk has a bonafide comics career!

It's OK. It's not my favorite. It hit with a certain demographic at a time when people were starved for stories like that. I'm not of that demographic so I don't begrudge people who like it, but I'll stick with LIKE A VELVET GLOVE CAST IN IRON as Peak Clowes.

Although I think there are a couple we've look at before, the rationale behind the piece was overlooked gems - as in, stuff that didn't get previously reviewed or discussed here. PATIENCE got a big write up in May, whereas . . . shit, OK, you got me, I didn't even realize that new Hanselmann was out yet. He's a little…

Sorry for any confusion. I tried to say the book WASN'T puerile in the way the story would be if, say, the author had been twenty years younger with maybe a little bit less life context against which to frame the suffering of their illness. As someone who is . . . not young . . . I strongly related to those parts of…

Where I come from, an "um actually," or however you phrase it, is an act of open warfare. I have no desire to continue this conversation.

I don't think it even needs to be said that Carrey's performance here was terrible, but you expect better things from Tommy Lee Jones.

That was my assumption as well before I wrote the article, but once I did I realized that not all of these bands were signed to Warner Brothers or any of its subsidiary labels in 1995. There's probably a bit of horse-trading between labels when it comes to sharing songs for soundtracks, because the album draws from a…

I am only responsible for entries that carry my name.

I am willing to bet you are the most popular person in the world at parties.

Rick Jones was on the original list we circulated among ourselves, I don't know what happened but no one ended up writing about him. You could do a whole sidebarof all the different sidekick positions he's taken over the years.

You have not been reading CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS, or you might know that Dwayne Taylor isn't quite so dead anymore . . .

You do realize that these entries are streamlined so that normal people who don't have a degree in this stuff can read and enjoy without being completely drowned in trivia? In this instance, if I have 200 or so words to describe a basic bit of comics history trivia, I am not going to sacrifice at least 1/10 of that…