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key celebrity endorsement

it's so good visually now too, i'm doing a rewatch and the early seasons just look amateur in comparison. this show's really up there with the sopranos et al. JJ totally made a deal with the investors between seasons 1 and 2.

almost a bottle episode innit

so good. retroactively makes season 5 better too since it ties up the plotlines a lot more.

where do you guys stand on the jonas venture alive/dead thing?

loved the (possible?) homages to Dark City

aaaaaand mozza nails it again. read this before class and going to reread when I get back. this issue really brought the main plot back into focus. makes me want to reread the society of superheroes issue.

Yeah I'll definitely agree with that. Its highs were extremely high but it kind of lost its focus. How many issues was it total, 40 or 50? Ending was good, not great.

well here it is.

pretty badass, like that they're starting to develop the more negative parts of conj's personality. any word on ratings?

DARK GRITTY 90S ZIVANA

The Ship That Sank Twice might have been my favorite part of the series. I skipped the crossover. I would LOVE a Tommy Taylor miniseries in the future.

gee, I wonder which recurring character is going to betray john at the end of the season

yeah, it's been a great run. assuming he sticks the landing, and i don't see any reason he wouldn't, this is definitely on my short list of comics i recommend to people who are new to comics.

If they REALLY want to make the show close to the comic series they could have John constantly say "Strueth" and also wear that blue suit that he wore in the early series.

 

Hopefully they'll start doing it in Season 2

season finale: john goes to the laundromaut and reminisces on

ratings go through the roof

I just wish the show went a bit darker tonally. Seems like every episode he's using magic to solve problems consequence free, except for the one that was based off a comic. maybe they're building up to it tho.

I laughed at "Zed's in art class"

you guys see how the friggin avclub has been giving constantine episodes Cs and D-s? Meanwhile they give every episode of that lena dunham crap an A. It's totally payola. http://www.avclub.com/tv/constantine/

Or, you know, maybe they have different tastes and preferences when it comes to TV. But hey, let's go right ahead and just assume corruption.

This goes all the way to the top, man.

you guys see how the friggin avclub has been giving constantine episodes Cs and D-s? Meanwhile they give every episode of that lena dunham crap an A. It's totally payola. http://www.avclub.com/tv/constantine/

^"This is England" is the delano run. the lyrics are the story and the drum machines are the incoherent art.

Seymour Skinner as "Jimmy Boy", a streetwise NOLA cop

holy shit, this was the worst thing i've ever read. there are maybe a few points in there but this whole "GRANT MORRISON ISN'T IDEOLOGICALLY CORRECT. HE HAS AN INDIVIDUALIST MESSAGE" is just..stalinist, I can't think of a better word.

Which is to say that in hindsight chaos magic fits perfectly into the narrative of the nineties that has in hindsight proved so disastrous: the “third way” liberalism of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair that took for granted that it was possible to achieve meaningful social justice while fawning obsequiously at the feet of the most powerful people in the world. While it is largely a given that any attempt at radical reform of political institutions will swiftly be watered down and compromised, the triangulating leftism of the 1990s made the somewhat astonishing decision to sell our the possibility of major social change as its opening gambit, foreclosing on the possibility of revolution first and trying to bring one about second. In hindsight we can look at the consequences of the neoliberal consensus - a massively expanded wealth gap, a financial sector that can crash the global economy on the back of what is in practice little more than a terribly complex version of video poker and see no significant regulation in exchange, and all that good stuff.

 

No, of course Grant Morrison didn’t cause the financial crash. But as a form of radicalism, the one he spells out is fundamentally and irretrievably complicit in it. Chaos magic is magic for libertarians. It sprung up, unsurprisingly, in the late nineties because it was a flavor particularly suitable for the techno-libertarians who disproportionately dominated the early Internet. And it was, in hindsight, a complete and utter bust. It’s just another flavor of the Heinlein-style science fiction that animated Babylon 5 and space opera in general. It amounts to Robert Heinlein in fetish gear, which is mostly just redundant.

LET'S RANK ART ACCORDING TO HOW REVOLUTIONARY IT IS. THE BEST ART IS THE INTERNATIONALE. THE WORST ART IS THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO OR DARKNESS AT NOON.

hey, my hair looks WAY better than that

I wanna be in this StH facebook network! How do I join? Will you guys like my selfies?

just watched Dark City, god that was great. Ending could have been a little better but I guess they only had so much money to spend there.