How to Evolve Your Position

(NOTE: The following is an example of the commentaries I put on my comics for my Patreon subscribers. Some are shorter, some are longer, but every comic gets one.)

All I’m saying is, if Harlan Ellison . . . Harlan Ellison feels the need to defend women from your advances, that’s saying something. It’s like saying “Neil Gaiman would have had me, but luckily, Louis C.K. was there.”

On to more pleasant subjects.

I feel like I’ve been writing a lot of comics about sci-fi TV and movies lately. I have, at times, been self-conscious about it, but I’m getting past that, I think. Old sci-fi TV and movies, as a subject, has several virtues.

I find it endlessly funny.

It is more easily accessible now than it has ever been before.

It is NOT the news, politics, or economics.

Also, Garry Shandling once wrote something to the effect of, “The more like myself I write, the funnier I will be.” I think a lot about that, and you can rest assured, when you read a comic, it is based on what I believed was the funniest idea I had that day. If that idea happens to be about Foundation, I am not going to steer away from it because I just did one about Space: 1999.

Anyway, I gave Foundation another chance, and I'm glad I did. I think it’s really good. Yes, they only used the Foundation books as a springboard to create something almost entirely different, but that different thing works for me. I’m still not entirely sure how that makes me feel, which is interesting in and of itself.

Also, it has Jared Harris and Lee Pace, both of whom are always good. This season, it looks like they’ve given a largish role to Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space 9), who, like many Star Trek alums, is excellent and underutilized. Also, one of the series directors, and now executive producers is Roxann Dawson (Star Trek: Voyager’s B’Elanna Torres), who is similarly excellent and underutilized.

One last thing: if you like science fiction, and have never given Apple TV+ a try, do yourself a favor and give it a shot. It’s worth it just to speed binge Severance, Foundation, For All Mankind, Silo, and Murderbot, in my opinion.

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