One of the things people routinely ask me to write about is The Incredible Hercules, mostly because it’s a good comic book and they want people to talk about good comic books that “fly under the radar.” Except I’m not sure how The Incredible Hercules can be considered “under the radar,” because everybody fucking talks […]

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“So, Justin, what would you like for Christmas this year?” Hm… …Sandman Mystery Theatre… …The Golden Age Sandman’s alter ego, Wesley Dodds… …and an actor to portray him…? HOW ABOUT IT?? Bonus: I have done some hi-tech photo manipulation, just so you could see what it’d be like: I tried to replace the ferret with […]

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The remains of Underground New Beijing.

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I think the existence of Donald Sterling makes the case that the European football club system of league construction (the freewheeling, free-enterprising “to play in the top leagues you have to make an effort”) is superior on multiple points of argument to the American system of league construction (tightly controlled and defined membership). Sterling’s profit […]

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So far the revival of V has been fairly reliably dull and nonsensical, but this week’s episode brought the first throw-the-remote moment when Our Heroes discover that a key part of the alien invaders’ plan is… flu shots. In what may be the most needlessly convoluted plan in the history of convoluted plans, the Visitors, […]

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So for everybody else in Canada it is “Thursday” but for me it is Thanksgiving II because my dad is American and he always insists on having Thanksgiving on American Thanksgiving but my mom is Canadian so she always insists on having Thanksgiving on Canadian Thanksgiving, and eventually they compromised by having two Thanksgivings. I […]

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Now, a bear weighs approximately seven hundred and fifty pounds. A large German shepherd weighs about ninety pounds. It should be essentially impossible for a dog to knock over a bear. However, certain dogs have mastered the science of Rexonomics, which enables one, through the use of specific equations, to change one’s own body mass, […]

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Your hosts are the usual gang of idiots. No, not Bill Gaines and Al Jaffee. That might have been entertaining, though. Ellenore and Ryan: Lindy hop and Broadway. Lindy hop hasn’t been on the American show since season 3 when Lacey and Neil struggled through it in the final. This was better than that was, […]

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I can’t add much to MGK’s definitive explanations of why Betty Cooper is insane, but I just wanted to make note of one thing I found recently. When I called MGK’s attention to the first page of this story, I hadn’t actually seen the rest of the story. And I assumed that if I ever […]

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You know, the “hey, A Christmas Carol is total crap because Scrooge is actually the hero” argument is quite possibly the bottom of the barrel as far as libertarian thought goes: taking Dickens’ classic story about the essential emptiness of living only for profit and greed and completely missing the goddamned point isn’t something that […]

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So, my guide as to how to start reading comics has gotten a lot of feedback, and by “feedback” I mostly mean “why did you not mention this YOU ARE A BAD PERSON” or similar. (Okay, they never actually say that I am bad, but I think it’s totally implied and they should all feel […]

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Any day where you find a stick that makes for a really decent pretend sword cannot be all bad.

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Blah blah weekly TV column blah blah Torontoist.

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