There's naught wrong wit' Tom Bombadil!

That was the thing I noticed when I read them - they're perfectly adequate prose. Nothing remarkable. The world-building is also so-so, like the implications of lots of things were not thought out or expanded upon, and yet… for some reason I kept turning pages. They're easy to read, and they have that elusive quality…

This is exactly how I feel about Star Wars.

A horcrux is just a fancy term for a lich's phylactery.

I was working in a book store when the second book came out, totally flummoxed by this outsized popularity for this thing that looked to me like a gender-flipped Worst Witch. But shortly thereafter the first movie came out and I went to see it with a friend and his kids. It was okay. It did nothing for me, but I could…

Disqus is getting replaced at some point this summer by Kinja, in order to bring the AVClub in to line with the other sites in Univision's internet empire, which use that commenting system. Which apparently sucks. I dunno. Anyway, I'm thinking I'll be wasting much less time here in the near future.

He's a good runner up. But the sci-fi super-cop and his wife are my favorite version of the concept, especially vis a vis Hawkworld, Tim Truman, and John Ostrander.

I'm okay. With the threat of kinja looming over us all, I signed up for the Tolerability Index although I haven't spent much time there yet. Just preparing for when the hammer falls.

It just encapsulates everything about Spider-Man so goddam perfectly. Ditko and Lee were flippin' geniuses, I tell you what.

You wound me, sir.

But… that's the best version of Hawkman!

That's what I should have done… but I held on, like a schmuck.

The Chuck Dixon issues are solid, entertaining urban crime adventure. When Devin Grayson comes on, the book kind of goes off the rails. You, especially, as a huge Daredevil fan will not enjoy the "Born Again" storyline that Grayson forces on Nightwing.

Part of the appeal for me is that he's the guy raised by Batman - so he's basically Batman 2.0, but the fact that he had peers and friends like Donna Troy, Wally West, and Roy Harper made him grow up to be a more complete, less damaged person. Ultimately he's a pulp two-fisted adventuring acrobatic detective, but the…

Been saying for years that Batman is all things to all people.

Wonder Woman: JLA: League of One or The Hiketeia, although the recent Year One from Rucka and Scott was pretty good too.

I think Batman is my favorite character (like, in all of fiction), but Nightwing is easily my favorite superhero. I find his books generally much more fun to read and easy to follow, possibly because he doesn't have all the baggage and popularity that Batman has, so there's less pressure to do a "definitive" version…

Just because Devin Grayson ripped off the Miller Daredevils during her run doesn't mean all Nightwing comics are "watered down daredevil comics."

The definitive Spider-Man story is the one where he's buried under 20 tons of machinery and he can't get out, but Aunt May will die if he doesn't. It might even be like one page (with 16 panels) but that's Spidey in microcosm.

I still have a soft spot for Batman plugged into the Gotham power grid and dueling Superman "to the death" in Crime Alley, with an assist from Oliver Queen.