From the New York Times’ review of the season premiere of ALIAS. Ms. Virginia Heffernan (reviewer!) seems to be experiencing a bit of a meltdown.

Let’s be honest. Many of us don’t like comic books and have feigned interest in their jumpy bif-bam fighting scenes and the way they redeem loser guys, only to impress and minister to those loser guys. And now we can admit that while the redemption dynamic - little X-Men boys finding in their eccentricity and loneliness a superpower - is touching, there’s nothing duller than listening to someone explain, in all seriousness, the Syndicate and the Shadow Force and the Hard Drive and the Plutonium Lance. And the characters: lame. One is good and the other is evil, and then one is evil pretending to be good, and then one is good pretending to be evil.

I swear, I honestly can’t remember the last time I’ve seen such insane vitriol and hatred towards comic books since the last time poor Kevin Dooley received a death threat. Which one of you H.E.A.T. members killed this woman’s puppy? And then forced her to eat it?

Full story available here, registration is, unfortunately, required. Someone with far more organization and energy than, well, me, should put together some sort of email campaign to this woman. I’m not sure if it would be funnier if it was polite and provided cogent counter-arguments to her ignorance, or if people were to live down to her worst nightmare and really freak her out.

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