Heel Turn

BSG, Breaking Bad, Flight of the Conchords, and Lost, in that order.

Out of all the Bond girls, your friend chooses Christmas Jones? Ugh. Tell her to get it together and rock Ursula Andress's bikini from Dr. No. Pussy Galore in her shiny dress is the only other acceptable choice.* *Unless your friend is Asian. Then Kissy Suzuki is permissable.

Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, License to Kill, Dr. No, and Moonraker. In that order.

How can you base a movie around Chun Li, Balrog, Vega, and Nash? What, they couldn't get the rights to use Rolento, T. Hawk, Dhalsim, and Dan Hibiki? If you're going to make a Street Fighter movie, Capcom, come correct -- make Ryu your main character, make Ken his wisecracking partner, and throw in Chun Li, Guile, Cammy, Zangief, and Blanka as a supporting cast. Villains are M. Bison, Vega, Sagat, Adon, and Sodom. Cameos by everyone else not on this list. Sequel focuses on the battle with Akuma and possible Evil Ryu. There, was that so hard?

Sounds like a lot of shit to take up room. I'm getting tired of these ultra deluxe special editions crammed with useless knickknacks. It's one thing when it's a 4 Disc DVD with some kind of cool, sleek packaging, but does anyone really need a foam Master Chief helmet? I have enough trouble getting laid as it is.

Apropos of nothing, when is Lyoto Machida back in action?

Having read a shitload of Avengers over the years, I have to say that Stern's run sits as my favorite of all time, with The Vision storyand The Masters Of Evil tale being my two faves during his run. Busiek's run was brilliant, but I always thought his ancilliary tale, Avengers Forever, was far better than anything he did in the main book. Steve Engelhart, Roy Thomas, and David Michelinie also had great runs. I would have to count Geoff Johns and Chuck Austen's runs as two of the all time worst though. Austen's was just ridiculously bad, whereas Johns run suffered from the all the rage at the time Marvel way of forcing storylines to run six or so issues to fill a trade. It didn't help at all that John's run was made totally moot by BMB afterwards when BMB took all the hard work Johns had done with Ant Man (Scott Lang) and Jack Of Hearts and rendered it obsolete when he killed them both in a manner of a few panels in the first issue of his run. Which actually leads meto saying that despite the sales, BMB's run on The Avengers is also amongst the absolute worst in my humble opinion. Just chiming in to say that Stern's run was nothing short of epic. The way he dealt with the individual relationships between the team members and the way he wasn't afraid to shake up the status quo still makes Stern's run on Avengers pretty much my favorite run on anything, ever. It's equivalent in my mind to Miller's run on Daredevil and Simonson's run on Thor in runs that'll never be equaled. It's funny you should mention that. Looking at Marvel only, I would throw out these titles and writers/teams that were in my mind the best those books ever were: Avengers: Roger Stern and John Buscema Thor: Walt Simonson Fantastic Four: John Byrne Iron Man: David Michelinie and Bob Layton Amazing Spider-Man: Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. and/or Roger Stern and John Romita Jr. Daredevil: Frank Miller Hulk: Peter David and Gary Frank X-Men: Chris Claremont and John Byrne Captain America: Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting But yeah, Roger Stern's entire multi year run on The Avengers, and including his WCA mini series were brilliant. Just great storytelling. I wish Marvel would put out a series of visionnaire trades collecting the entire run.

Having read a shitload of Avengers over the years, I have to say that Stern's run sits as my favorite of all time, with The Vision storyand The Masters Of Evil tale being my two faves during his run. Busiek's run was brilliant, but I always thought his ancilliary tale, Avengers Forever, was far better than anything he did in the main book. Steve Engelhart, Roy Thomas, and David Michelinie also had great runs. I would have to count Geoff Johns and Chuck Austen's runs as two of the all time worst though. Austen's was just ridiculously bad, whereas Johns run suffered from the all the rage at the time Marvel way of forcing storylines to run six or so issues to fill a trade. It didn't help at all that John's run was made totally moot by BMB afterwards when BMB took all the hard work Johns had done with Ant Man (Scott Lang) and Jack Of Hearts and rendered it obsolete when he killed them both in a manner of a few panels in the first issue of his run. Which actually leads meto saying that despite the sales, BMB's run on The Avengers is also amongst the absolute worst in my humble opinion. Just chiming in to say that Stern's run was nothing short of epic. The way he dealt with the individual relationships between the team members and the way he wasn't afraid to shake up the status quo still makes Stern's run on Avengers pretty much my favorite run on anything, ever. It's equivalent in my mind to Miller's run on Daredevil and Simonson's run on Thor in runs that'll never be equaled.

Having read a shitload of Avengers over the years, I have to say that Stern's run sits as my favorite of all time, with The Vision storyand The Masters Of Evil tale being my two faves during his run. Busiek's run was brilliant, but I always thought his ancilliary tale, Avengers Forever, was far better than anything he did in the main book. Steve Engelhart, Roy Thomas, and David Michelinie also had great runs. I would have to count Geoff Johns and Chuck Austen's runs as two of the all time worst though. Austen's was just ridiculously bad, whereas Johns run suffered from the all the rage at the time Marvel way of forcing storylines to run six or so issues to fill a trade. It didn't help at all that John's run was made totally moot by BMB afterwards when BMB took all the hard work Johns had done with Ant Man (Scott Lang) and Jack Of Hearts and rendered it obsolete when he killed them both in a manner of a few panels in the first issue of his run. Which actually leads meto saying that despite the sales, BMB's run on The Avengers is also amongst the absolute worst in my humble opinion.

I don't know much about MMA, but this is pretty much the embodiment of the "freakshow" match that Dave Meltzer always talks about, right?

It's stupid as shit. There's no strategy or skill involved, just dumb luck. How would I change it to make it better, you ask? In order to spice things up, one case should have a live hand grenade inside it.

Spoiler: Click here to viewOne thing I can believe that no one's discussing: the multiple mentions of the Oceanic Six basically indicates that only six of the original crash survivors are getting off the island alive. We already know that three of them are Jack, Hurley, and Kate, so anyone want to take a guess as to who the other three might be? I think Claire's definitely going to be one since she has Aaron to care for, Sayid so that he can have his reunion with Nadia, and Sun since she's pregnant/will also have a kid. I can definitely see Jin buying it at some point, possible sacrificing his life for Sun, Sawyer possibly doing the same for Kate, and Locke either dying on the island or simply not wanting to leave it. Rose and Bernard are more problematic, in a way, but I don't see them being kept alive by the writers -- not when story time is better served by keeping around two other, more important characters.

How did Brock Lesnar not see that kneebar coming? My grandmother could have seen that and avoided it. Brock has all the physical tools, but from what I know of UFC, he looked incredibly green and inexperienced.

New Cap is gay. Shiny and gay. Fuck Brubaker if this is the best he could come up with.

Arrested Development is basically the best thing ever. The fact that new episodes are not currently being made is a major blow to my faith in humanity.

WTF are you talking about? Lets see how much Marvel cares about characters: Tony Stark is practically a super-villain right now. At any rate, he's a huge asshole now. Cap is dead, and possibly being replaced by Bucky, who didn't die after all but was "rescued" by the Commies, who replaced his arm which was blown off with a mechanical one and brainwashed him to be an assassin for them. Not to mention the fact that its been retconned so that Bucky was actually older during WW2 and wasn't just Cap's sidekick but a trained assassin who did the dirty work that Cap couldn't. Spider-Man has been fucked up by JMS, who practically shit all over Gwen Stacy's memory in the process. One More Day. Nuff said. I'm avoiding ANY Spider-Man titles until that garbage is undone. And that's just for starters. I used to be a die-hard Marvel fan, but am no longer. The day Joe Quesada resigns, is fired, or is hit by a speeding truck can't come soon enough, because he's a fanboy and fanboys shouldn't be running things.

Green Lantern is stupid. The Sinestro Corps is stupid. DC is stupid. For the first time in my life I'm no longer actively following a single DC title, and I don't miss it a bit. The entire company is a convoluted, incomprehensible mess. I really hope Time-Warner sells DC to Marvel or something just so we can get people who actually care about the characters and can write realistic human beings to un-fuck the DCU.

It's threads like this that make me kind of glad that I don't own cable and thus have absolutely no idea what you guys are talking about.

Morgan Spurlock didn't find Osama Bin Laden because our government knows exactly where he is. But that's a conspiracy theory for another day.