Part of the Great American TV Canon. Cookie Monster, Spock, Barney Fife, etc.

Dora For Boys, basically.

Favorite premise: Cailiou is dying of cancer. That's why he's bald and all the grownup tolerate his bullshit and the screen is all fuzzy at the edges.

In one of the later, stupider, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics, there's what's pretty clearly meant to be the corpse of a Thomas-style engine (it's apparently not Thomas as the details are all off), and it's pretty distressing to see a wrecked train with a messed up skull on the front.

FUCK Paw Patrol.

Kind of okay with that change, honestly…

Chronic Town is out, I really would like a clever use of "Radio Free Europe"…

Oh, for sure. At this point, the funny books are basically a loss leader for the movie and video game franchising, where the money really is. That's why you're seeing business decisions like Marvel not wanting to do any new X-Books or new X-Characters because Disney corporate wants to fuck over …whoever has the…

As I understand it, comics are actually growing right now - they're NEVER going to be as big as they were in the 90s, but they're not shrinking anymore. The MCU movies have played a hand in that, but apparently Tumblr REALLY has been a game-changer - especially for attracting women readers to books, and young women…

There's an economy of scale at work here - the best selling comic in the US last month did 250,000 and it was a brand new Star Wars tie-in. Walking Dead does about 60k a month. Anything over 10K is a solid seller.

Fuck, dude.

You love the Legion AND Shipwreck. You're good people in my book.

You'd think the Legion would be the easiest sell in DC's stable - teen superheroes in the future, being awesome and doing heroic stuff! It seems impossible to fuck up, and yet here we are, on what is apparently going to be the 4th consecutive total reboot of the franchise, not counting the reboot where they replaced…

well, it could also have been a mockery of the Ironborn's belief in the Drowned God, but, you know, that's probably expecting too much.

or, you know, this is a heads-up to the audience that, you know, we've seen this before and we know exactly where it ends up, and Dany had better get her shit together ASAP before she winds up getting invited to Hizdahr's wedding and KNIFEY STABBY TIME ensues.

Or she's Andrew Johnson and Slaver's Bay is the Confederacy….

Eastwatch is the other occupied castle. It's… uh… east of Castle Black.

I half expect that to be the case - Varys shows up at Dany's court and is like "Honey, if I actually wanted to kill you, your ass never would have seen it coming. I did that shit to keep Bobby B happy."

Women being seen as inferior has nothing to do with the concept of gender. Suuuuuuuuure.

Stannis is also a mannis of his word, so while he may not LIKE that Jon said no, he likely respects the decision. An oath is an oath.