It’s worth noting that Lois Lane has a singular distinction among comics characters, being the only non-super (or, at least, non-protagonistic) character to appear in Who’s Who.1 No other non-super characters make the cut: not Ma and Pa Kent, not Perry White, not Commissioner Gordon, not Amanda Waller.2 There’s a reason why Lois makes the […]

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Your guest judge is Jason Gilkison, who is of course just as good as the other three. Ivy and Gaz: hip-hop. A Superman-themed hip-hop routine? It is like they choreographed this just for me! And Gaz is, it turns out, a dead fucking ringer for Clark Kent, and Ivy’s reasonable as Lois. This was really […]

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Okay, so let’s say I told you that in 1964, a comic book character was so out of control that the doctor prescribed tranquilizers. Let’s also say that this character started taking the tranquilizers and immediately became prone to narcolepsy. And let’s throw in the fact that even in a state of drug-induced narcolepsy, this […]

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Like I do here for example.

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Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that, Mr. Thinks He’s The Leading Man. “Ancestor.” Instead of the truth right before your eyes, which is that ancient Egyptians somehow came to worship Rex the motherfucking Wonder Dog.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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“Good morning, sir. I have prepared a breakfast of scrambled egg, kippers and bacon, as per your request.” “Fantastic, Jeeves! I tell you truly, I’ve worked up a massive appetite and that’s no mistake.” “Am I to assume that tonight’s excursion went well, sir?” “Well, it started off a bit sticky. My cape got all […]

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Some some of you may have heard that story about the venerable Canadian history magazine The Beaver changing its name because of the confusion it caused over exactly what kind of magazine it was, and apparently also because a lot of school Internet filters blocked it. It was a funny enough story that even the […]

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(See, this is why I’m irritated. Being dependent on internet to see this show means sometimes I am delayed.) Your judges are Jason Coleman, Bonnie Lythgoe and Matt Lee. Ilona and Nick: jazz. This was mediocre, and Jason saying “there wasn’t a lot of dancing for me to judge there” is pretty much a straight-up […]

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You know what surprises me about remakes in comic books? It’s that there haven’t been more of them. Formula or no formula, there does usually seem to be a presumption that a new script is better than re-illustrating an old one from a decade earlier. Which is a good thing; I’m just not sure if […]

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I was going to write a long thing about Tyr sucking, but basically it boils down to this: he looks like when you were seven and you pulled off one of the arms off one of your action figures and then stuck a robot arm on it. And that’s just not cool. Not in a […]

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“Damn it all, Jeeves, I was just about to settle into my afternoon kip.” “Understandable, sir, but you asked to be alerted when the new trials came from the factory.” “And have they, Jeeves?” “I would not be alerting you otherwise, sir.” “Well, I did rather ask for them, didn’t I? Guess we’d better see […]

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A commenter on MGK’s requests post asked for something about Walt Kelly’s Pogo, and while I’m not MGK, I thought I’d take a stab at it. Pogo is sort of in limbo at the moment in terms of availability; Fantagraphics was supposed to have year-by-year Peanuts-style collections ready over a year ago, they have still […]

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So a few people emailed me asking me to say something about Warner Todd Huston’s screed about the issue of Captain America where the tea partiers are shown in a less than sympathetic light. Individuals unfamiliar with Warner Todd Huston may need to know that this instance probably represents the apex of his influence as […]

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