The Monitor Gets Ready for a Shire Thing

The Hobbit comes out next week, and we’re counting the hours until we’re sitting in the crowded theater — no advance screenings for this one, we’re seeing it with the people! — wearing our giant hairy-soled novelty hobbit feet.
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But it turns out Stephen Colbert is just as excited, which is why he’s doing an all-Hobbit week of The Colbert Report. So we talk about that. But we also talk about a Rockstar Games throwback edition and a promising new book from Image Comics, because … well, because we can. Please don’t hold it against us.