uhm, perhaps you haven't heard the theory about how Stanley Kubrick was so guilt-ridden over his role in the faking of the moon landing that he did precisely what you deny anyone would do!

love to hear back on whether any of the other super-prose stuff you dig into is worth looking for - i have a pile of stuff to read but am always looking for more.

i'm having trouble wrapping my mind around this. i mean, yeah: you're entitled to your opinions and not everyone agrees about everything. but…WHA?!

well, Legion of Super-Heroes in all its many incarnations was probably the best example of a good team book that featured a decent mix of storytelling and action/excitement (which is what i think we're sort of considering our one-sentence definition of "good", right?)

Wu-Tang, fool!

well, based on their history, i guess it isn't surprising that he didn't bother to mention Prince Be of P.M.fuckinDawn. or maybe he did, i didn't listen to the track since i've got Faith No More at the Fillmore on youtube. (seriously, if you're a fan, check out their Burt Bacharach cover from their BBC1 appearance.)

sorry, dude - your argument that public schools don't work because Milwaukee has terrible results and your parochial school is (apparently) the most perfect example of enlightened education, ever, is simply ignoring a lot of facts.

i don't want to oversell it - this is one scene in the movie. but there are others (Denzel digging his own chip out is pretty out there, too) and the cast is uniformly excellent. i thought it did an okay job updating the story from Cold War paranoia to Middle Eastern War on Terror and post-911 conspiracy theories but…

i think this has been true for a long time - the problem with the comics industry is that, by and large, these books are written and drawn by people who grew up loving comics and so it's perfectly natural for many of them to just riff and expand (or blatantly copy from) the stuff they once loved. i mean, that's kind…

just reading your paragraph about Superman continuity gave me a headache. ugh…

Wild Dog is probably, hands down, my favorite comics character ever.

and beautiful - Denys Cowan interiors and Bill Sienkiewicz covers? good stuff.

it's hard to understate how critical Denys Cowan's art was in making that version of The Question cool and fascinating, incredibly 80s design and all.

kudos to you for being willing to keep going with Hama's GIJoe - i was a big fan of the original run in the 80s and into the 90s until i gave up on a year or two after his Nth Man series got cancelled, sometime after the issue with the big massacre of Joes in the desert.

the Giffen and DeMattis Bwah-hah-ha!! run?

in terms of comics, i read Scott McCloud's The Scupltor in pretty much a single sitting last week and loved it, tragic ending and all. i love that McCloud is still including philosophical arguments in his work, including characters who will intelligently argue an opposing point of view. (as someone who shares the…

but then you have Denzel climbing on the candidate and biting a mind-control chip out of his neck right in the middle of the campaign headquarters, where the two have been eating noodles! c'mon, that had to be nutsy-fagin enough for you, right?

i've read all the Thomas Harris books, so i'm unable to view that scene outside the context of the characters as presented in the other novels - and while Silence of the Lambs is good, the one i keep returning to is Red Dragon, because Lecter is just presented as sort of an interesting monster, not some superhuman…

they should totally have a new Becky every episode. either that, or get Hot-Becky for the whole thing, but CGI different faces appear in mirrors and reflective surfaces.

yeah, i'm not sure i agree with you - there were a lot of structural issues with the Democratic primary situation (closed primaries, super-delegates, etc.) and that isn't even taking into consideration the corrupt gamesmanship of Dem leadership who absolutely tilted the scales in favor of Clinton. Sanders, who no one,…