Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham has a thing where you have to save Adam West, voiced by TV star Adam West, on every level. My kid likes to watch me play it. It's a little bittersweet now, saving Adam West's life every day.

I don't know that there's really all that much death in children's books. Granted, I'm reading primarily to a 5 year old, so there's a lot of going to sleep and dealing with emotions and learning politeness, and here and there a foreign word care of Skippyjon Jones… death, not so much.

Yeah, I skipped YA literature, with a few exceptions. It was not quite the thing it is now when I was a wee punk, but I was reading the Lord of the Rings in 3rd grade and Xanth not long after. I went for stuff in the sci-fi section of the bookstore, not the kids section.

The scene where she's about to torch the office and he says he'll find her - the look is just priceless.

One of my favorite movies, one of my favorite soundtracks. I own both, and still listen to them.

"Under Pressure" was on the radio the other night as I was driving to work and as the end built and Bowie's and Mercury's voices melded and my heart swelled, because why don't we give love one more chance, man?, I had the sudden painful realization that both men are no longer with us, and the road got blurry. Just for…

Buscando Matador!

I was pretty much sold on the "high concept" the film going in, but as soon as Arkin showed up (and it's like the second scene, I think) I knew this would be a movie designed specifically for me and my enjoyment.

A monster who fights monsters is such a simple, elegant and fun idea. The cherry on top of the sundae is, of course, Ben being Ben. "What a revoltin' development," the three sweetest words in the English language, etc.

I've been reading the Superman Rebirth trades. I prefer Superman to Action Comics, because Tomasi and Gleason told direct, straight-forward stories that reestablish the post-Crisis Superman and Lois with Jon. There's something intrinsically fun about a story where Superman has an adventure with his son and his dog,…

Tolerability Index Forum. It was set up in the early days of the transition to Disqus, but I only joined recently. You have to apply for membership because trolls have slipped in before, but if you notify Mrs. Langdon Alger or Douey Rheims-Challoner or the like, they will fast track the approval process. I can vouch…

The Myths & Legends podcast just did their first episode on Egyptian myth. It was pretty hilarious and dark at the same time.

Yelena Belova is so 2002, Shulkie.

One thing the AV Club has over the TIF and Avocado is content generation. The article appears, we jump in with our Pavlovian responses, and we're off to the races. The few times I've checked on the TIF, there doesn't seem to be a lot of activity in the "books" board. So we'll have to work on changing that.

Favorite run? Lee/Kirby, hands down. That was such lightning in a bottle, a weird confluence of talent, ideas, and purpose, the like of which has never been seen before or since. It was gold, Jerry, just gold.

The FF is, for me, Ben Grimm and those guys he hangs out with.

Lots of lawyering, way too much angsting, and trying to make Jennifer Walters into Bill Bixby as David Banner. A complete personality transplant.

There's got to be an acceptable number of parameters, otherwise we're all just throwing darts at a board and criticism as a discipline is meaningless.

No, they'll change Dr. Strange in the comics once his brand is established in the films. They didn't replace Tony Stark right after the first Iron Man movie. First step is to capitalize on any meager numbers of people who drift into bookstores or comic shops looking for Dr. Strange comics. Only when Cumberbatch's…

Gesundheit.