I don’t mind Prometheus or Covenant as movies per se, but I REALLY don’t like the idea that the xenos are - ultimately - something that humanity is responsible for creating.  Our hubris creates David, he creates the xenos.  The most off-putting part of Alien to me was always that these things were just ... out there.…

Durieux is great. I was (extremely) lucky in that I actually snagged his excellent Jaws poster when it originally went on sale.

I saw him open for Sharon Jones around 10 years back now, in Chicago. Great show, from both performers. And now both of them - pretty inarguably the two biggest acts on Dap-Tone - are gone. Wish it weren’t so.

All I want is for this to end with Jesse staying on the couch of a washed up sitcom star played by Will Arnett. Is that so much to ask?

Not sure.  It’s a Dark Horse release, so - not totally unfeasible that it could be there.

Plug time:  I just got the newly released “Go Team Venture!” book that Dark Horse put out.  It’s essentially a chapter or two of the pre-history of the show, followed by an episode by episode breakdown with interviews with Hammer and Publick and a bunch of people, followed by a chapter of ephemera, but it’s REALLY…

True true.  I’m a bit biased, because it’s probably (?) my favorite show of all time, so - my recommendation is always going to be to watch it, but I also know it’s not something everyone likes.  I’ve watched it 3 times, and even on the last rewatch, I was still figuring out some of the actual meaning of the dialogue,…

Well to be fair, he’s in it for about a grand total of 3 seconds.  Running through a scene fully nekkid.

Yes, and - agreed.  Went in with fairly low expectations, and was very pleasantly surprised.

This sounds awesome and I will be DVRing this to watch with my wife, but I hope it wraps up in time for the Deadwood movie to start filming.  Need some more full frontal from Nick in my life.

Yeah, not every book designer is Chip Kidd, that’s for sure.  You’re right, though - book does sound good.

I guess I just worry that genuine contrition expressed for past bad acts can’t be enough any more.  And he HAS apologized for these tweets, and made an effort at cleaning up his act in terms of language used.  But when you can pull these things up and remove them from any sort of context, then - yeah - they look (and…

Dammit Disney.  This isn’t right.

The thing I hated most about the whole device of there having been eggs on board the ship is that it makes Ripley come off as stupid or careless, and Ripley is neither of those things. She knew the queen had been present and couldn’t have gone very far physically; she came up with them in the drop ship and was only…

Actually, Sandman is in no way, shape, or form creator owned. Work for hire entirely. DC has just been more than usually decent about how they’ve used the characters. If they were of a mind to do it, they could have Dream fighting crime alongside Batman tomorrow.

The end of Bendis’ run on Spider-Man is kind of a big deal for me. Ultimate Spider-Man #1 was the comic that got me back into monthly purchases after being too cool for comics in high-school and then dipping slowly back in via the standard Vertigo trades and whatnot in college. And I’ve had (at least) one new issue…

That’s outstanding. I saw this making the rounds on Twitter a couple of weeks ago and didn’t check it out for some reason; thanks for giving me a chance to give it a read.

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again, but Devo’s cover of Satisfaction is the truest version of that song for me. Mothersbaugh sounds like someone who genuinely can’t get no satisfaction, and the coiled-spring tightness of their version encapsulates a feeling of barely controlled lust/mania in a way…

I think there are still a reasonable handful of decent critics left. Quint, for one. Drew McWeeney for another. Matt Zoller Seitz on Ebert’s site usually writes things up thoughtfully. Not to mention the talent pool who left this site to form The Dissolve who have all scattered to the four winds since that site…

I haven’t been this amped for a new Marvel book in quite some time. Their work on the Fury miniseries and on the Punisher Max book is some of the best work I’ve seen from a non-creator owned book in ages.