Over at Torontoist.
I feel the need to make a few points.
I’m generally pro-respecting the military. It’s a tough job; it deserves respect. But in Canada, we generally do a pretty decent job of respecting the military (as indeed most Western cultures do). We give them excellent benefits (and I fully admit in the past that [...]

20 comments

Feb

Wherein I Cater To The Demographic Of Me

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, I Should Write The Legion

Way back when I was a young me, one of the first comics-related things I ever read was a hardcover compendium of Superman stories at the library. This was a genuinely great collection, filled with Golden, Silver and Bronze Age Superman stories, and readers were spoilt for choice of some of the best classic Big [...]

17 comments

Feb

COMIC TALKING POST: One Book Is Good, One Book Is Bad

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

A couple of recent reads today.
First off, the Elephantmen hardcover, which is a really fantastic value ($24.99 USD for a remarkably fat-ass hardcover) and remarkably entertaining. The problem with approaching Elephantmen, from a reader’s perspective, is that the main story thus far has been told in the Hip Flask hardcovers, which, while gorgeous (some of [...]

4 comments

Feb

Yesterday, At The Comics Store

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Comics, Conversations

(SCENE: The Beguiling, in Toronto. I have entered to purchase a copy of the recently released The Order trade paperback – only $12.99 US, folks! Chris Butcher wanders up while I am looking for it.)
BUTCHER: Mr. Bird.
ME: Mr. Butcher.
BUTCHER: I love that we’re cordial.
ME: Likewise.
BUTCHER: So what were you looking for?
ME: That The Order trade.
BUTCHER: [...]

26 comments

Feb

Newsflash

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy

TORONTO (CP) – Local authorities were stunned today as an individual purporting to be a grown man voluntarily ate a bowl of Heinz Scooby-Doo tomato pasta meal this afternoon.
The overgrown child, despite being 32 and clearly able to identify Heinz Scooby-Doo tomato pasta meal as something marketed to children not yet willing to eat proper, [...]

9 comments

Feb

My Contribution To The Performing Arts

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, It's The Youtube

I promise to try and cut down on the Youtube links for the next little while, because there’s been a lot of them lately. But this one was too good to pass up, considering I wrote it.

Lawyerbear created by Kevin Church and made available for use under a Creative Commons license.)
I would also note [...]

4 comments

Feb

You’d Think This Would Get Old But You’d Be Wrong

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube

7 comments

Feb

Me And You And The Moon Minus The Moon

Posted by MGK Published in TV, The Internets

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

1 comment

Feb

Rampant Plagiarism

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Comic Remixes, Comics, Here's A Lot Of Photoshops, Photoshopp'd

I know you think many of your favorite critically acclaimed comics are original works, but it is my sad duty to inform you that most of them are warmed-over replicas of passionately brilliant works from the Silver Age. It’s hard to accept that these creators have so callously and wholly avoided crediting their predecessors for [...]

51 comments

Feb

MGK Live-Blogs The Oscars

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

Holy crap, this got long in a hurry. Behind a cut it goes.

Map Time

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets

A map of the world by dominant social networking applications.
Biggest surprise and yet-not-a-surprise: France’s favorite social network app is something made in France which pretty much nobody else uses.

5 comments

Feb

This Youtube Is Good

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube

(Via.)

3 comments

Feb

Oh my yes.

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube, TV

(It’s coming out on DVD this year. Not that I’m going to buy it, because I’m really not one of those people who buys old cartoon series on DVD purely for nostalgia value. But it makes me feel better knowing it’s available.)

10 comments

Feb

“There are many mass graves in and around Belgrade…”

Posted by MGK Published in Politics

The Bush Administration has rightfully taken a lot of flak for being absolutely terrible at diplomacy, but via Mark Kleiman, one is reminded that it is very possible to be worse.

no comment

Feb

Handicapping

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

WHY JUNO WILL WIN BEST PICTURE: Because it’s funny. Because it manages the difficult trick of being funny and serious and heartbreaking all at once, and sometimes simultaneously. Because Diablo Cody is a hot young talent and people want to reward her. Because it’s a comedy and comedies tend to pick up undecided Academy voters [...]

21 comments

Feb

Answers

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Yesterday, from comments:
Why are they hanging the dog?
In response, I present two panels from The Cigars of the Pharaoh:

The answer is, of course, that people in the Tintinverse just really fucking hate Snowy.

6 comments

Feb

Movies You Have Not Seen But You Should See (Because They Are Good) #8 and 9

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks, Movies You Have Not Seen But Should See

Sherlock Holmes does not get enough movie love, these days.
I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point Sherlock Holmes, one of the most fantastically cinematic characters there is, got relegated to television. The lengthy Jeremy Brett series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes likely had something to do with it, simply because it was [...]

19 comments

From “Legion of Super-Heroes” v4 #10

Be Outraged!

I Know My Readers

I done created a shitstorm.

Wherein I Cater To The Demographic Of Me

COMIC TALKING POST: One Book Is Good, One Book Is Bad

Yesterday, At The Comics Store

Newsflash

My Contribution To The Performing Arts

You’d Think This Would Get Old But You’d Be Wrong

Me And You And The Moon Minus The Moon

Rampant Plagiarism

MGK Live-Blogs The Oscars

Map Time

This Youtube Is Good

Oh my yes.

“There are many mass graves in and around Belgrade…”

Handicapping

Answers

Movies You Have Not Seen But You Should See (Because They Are Good) #8 and 9

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