He’s ready to thump someone

This drawing of Colossus graces the cover of the next self-published mini I’m putting together for members of my Almost monthly ‘Zine Club www.patreon.com/posts/mike-d...

I never saw that show, but it can't have been a great ending because I have never heard anybody ever discussing it

I still think about it all the time, which I for certain would not do if it had ended with Tony becoming the King of the Five Families or passing the mantle to AJ or whatever

It's been over a quarter-century and I still see people casually saying out loud that The Sopranos ending was bad. No, it was incredible. No TV show has ever let us experience so viscerally, the unfairness, the suddenness, unjustness and brutality of death so intensely. It could not have been better

This book in particular had some great perspective on it, characters who wanted to get into a prestigious but high cost art school, taking seriously their drive and commitment, but also expressing pure rage at what gets extracted from kids, both financially and emotionally, to do so

I read a few YA graphic novels for the recent panel I moderated at the Brooklyn Book Fest and a topic I’m so glad to see getting addressed a lot in these is the pressure on teenagers to get into and somehow pay for a higher education, and a lot of questioning about whether that’s the right thing

Hm, hard to decide who’d win between the two, but I do know which one my son would be rooting for

Rambo doesn’t murder anyone in First Blood but he does kill two dogs, which, to my son who just watched it with me just now, is worse

Well of course cops don't do anything or even come out when your car is stolen, they're already busy!

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In order to determine whether a 15-year-old volleyball player was transgender, Florida police sought out her medical records to determine any changes in her body weight and asked her teammates if they had ever seen her nude. One detective referred to the girl as "it"