Heel Turn

Spoiler: Click here to viewYeah, smart idea, kill off Bruce Wayne just as The Dark Knight comes out in theaters. DC is so fucking horrible. Their writing is mediocre at best, their continuity atrocious, and artwork sub-par. DiDio should be fired and Geoff Johns lynched. The only worthwhile writer in the entire company is Grant Morrison, and he's basically just spinning his wheels on Batman while waiting for Final Crisis. All-Star Superman is good, but six issues a year just isn't enough. Marvel's doing some stuff I disagree with, but at Secret Invasion is shaping up to be an interesting crossover, and there's still some good self-contained titles like Astonishing X-Men, Daredevil, and Immortal Iron Fist.

Has to be Rocky I, although Rocky IV is a guilty pleasure of mine if only for the total cheesiness of Rocky WINNING THE COLD WAR.

Dragged in the middle, but the opening was hilarious. Loved the "Box Network" executives.

Does he strangle a lot of people with the carbon fiber wire? Because that's what I did when I played those games.

Has to be Alex. Also, she's 19, so don't even think about the jailbait jokes.

Basil Rathbone. No one even comes close.

Not to take away from any other comic, especially those two, but the best has been Iron Fist by a mile for me, it's taken a so-so character and turned him into the best character around without involving him with every other plot in its universe. It's consistently 8/10 at least, is almost always on time, always advances the plot, is developing/has developed some good minor characters and has a good flowing story, I've said it before and I'll say it again, Brubaker is the best man in comics right now and Iron Fist is the hottest franchise that you should be reading.

Astonishing X-Men probably has to be series of the year, unless The Walkind Dead cranks out two or three great issues by the end of the year. When Joss Whedon's on his game, he shows why he's so well-paid and highly regarded.

Get the original cut, ignore the remake (which is terrible), and ABSOLUTELY watch this in black and white. I'm a huge Night of the Living Dead, and watching the movie in black and white gives it almost a documentary quality that really ramps up the claustrophobia and psychological tension.

Beat Portal today. I was laughing so hard during the final battle that I accidentally died. Valve needs to make more Portal stuff STAT. Also, they're coming out with a mini-Weighted Companion Cube. I can't wait to buy one.

Portal is the best thing ever created by mankind.

Played TF2 for eight hours straight. I've still got my sniper skills from TFC. Notched the "Grey Matter" achievement within two hours, and I've got almost 400 kills, probably around 80% with sniper. Proudest moment: on 2Fort, nailed a headshot on an airborne solider while scoring Dominations on the opposing two snipers. I'd still be playing but my head hurts and I feel like I'm going to throw up.

All of Elvis Costello's "This Year's Model", especially Lipstick Vogue. God damn does that album encapsulate my life right now.

DC in general is really fucking horrible right now. It's been one long crossover for, what, the past two years at this point, with ____ Crisis after ____ Crisis after _____ Crisis. Like, after a certain point the only way I would buy a non-The Spirit DC comic book was if the Secret Six were in it. So naturally they break up and Knockout gets offed for Let's Kill Off Yet More Characters: The MINISERIES. It's retarded. I'm considering buying Booster Gold because it's supposed to be good and theoretically I should purchase a Booster Gold comic on principle, but. Yeah.

The Walking Dead is the best comic book being regularly published today. There is no arguing with this fact.

Off the beaten path, but it's hard to go wrong with my boy Dr. Octagon. He was born on Jupiter, after all.

Oops, Audio Wizard Pro 2007 Studio Edition did it again.