I order a lot on Amazon (you may have had your suspicions…) It is not unusual for me to receive one or more boxes from them in a week. I tell you this because it adds a little to what I say next. Today I got one of the all-time greatest boxes from Amazon, ever. Seriously, it doesn’t get much better than what I got today. What was included? I thought you’d never ask:

–Arrested Development: Season Three. It is criminal that they canceled Arrested Development in the middle of this season, especially since this final half season was genius, so genius that it made the other two genius seasons look like they failed basic algebra. One has only to watch the episode entitled “MR F” to know what I’m talking about. I could explain it to you, but actually seeing it is so much better (and a lot less confusing).

–Double Indemnity. I’ve been looking for this Billy Wilder classic on DVD ever since I started buying DVDs. The release date has been pushed back so many times that it has made this poor boy cry. Finally, I have a copy in my hands. It’s time to revisit this amazing film, finally.

–The Tick VS. Season One. Not unlike Double Indemnity, I’ve been looking for the original The Tick Fox cartoon on DVD since before I even knew what DVD was. I LOVE this cartoon. It’s genius. And it came at a very critical point in my life. I was becoming a teenager and it was no longer really acceptable for the highlight of your week to be Saturday morning cartoons. You had to grow up. Move on. Think about girls and weird hair growing on your body and stuff like that. At that exact same moment, The Tick aired on Fox. I think it was on at 11:30. This was something different. Sure, it looked like a kids’ cartoon, but the jokes were more adult. The premise was one giant joke on Superheroes and you were in on that joke. That and the show was insanely quotable. I need only remember one line and I break out laughing. If you’ve never seen this, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy. I got it on Amazon for $20. I’d gladly pay three times that. Just don’t tell the people who put this out.

And finally…

–Marvel Zombies. A Marvel comic about an alternate universe where all the world’s heroes are zombies. The comic is about the zombies. Not the survivors. The zombies. I’m still waiting for the part where this isn’t cool.