Ever notice how sometimes, there’s a weird synchronicity at work in the things you read? I just got done reading a book about the Hollywood blacklist, and I’m now reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (not bad, but I’d still rather read a biography than a roman à clef). Both of them focused […]

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– Is it just me, or is DC really trying to have its cake and eat it too as regards Supergirl/Brainiac 5? I mean, if you want the “return” of the “original Legion,” that means they’re all older than teenagers – like, thirtysomethings – which makes a Brainy romance with the still-a-teenager Supergirl problematic, to […]

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Since people were wishing for the return of Improved Archie, here it is, in very very basic form: Have at it in comments. Also, I’m looking for artists for a couple of projects – you know the email if you’re interested in working with me.

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Time travel is part of the Sorcerer Supreme’s day job. It sounds interesting; it mostly isn’t. (I mean, from a certain point of view, time travel to the past is seeing stuff that already happened anyway and time travel to the future is like fast-forwarding through the good parts of the movie.) Two or three […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Dialogue by Jim. Dialogue by K.D. Bryan. Dialogue by Mighty Odd King. Dialogue by J. Bryan Shoup. Dialogue by Martin Friese. Dialogue by Thomas Wilde. Dialogue by yours truly. Dialogue by galamb_borong. Dialogue by teh_no. Dialogue by folksongsuite. Dialogue by Miss Mura. Dialogue by TopicalPopsicle. Dialogue by Mike Smith.

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As requested (well, someone requested it…) here’s a list of my recommendations for the ten “gotta have it” series/volumes (as before, I cheated a little by suggesting some series that have multiple volumes) that DC has produced as part of its Showcase Presents line of oversized, cheap, black and white trade paperbacks. As before, I’ll […]

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“Hey, we need to create another character for the “Justice Society 2″ project.” “Okay… so we got two kids Green Lantern had, Hawkman’s son, Wonder Woman’s daughter, and the Atom’s grand-nephew or something like that. Who else can we throw in?” “Maybe the Flash has a kid?” “Nah, I don’t like it. Dr. Mid-Nite?” “Blindness […]

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Is it okay that I am kinda skeeved out by this? I mean I been busy the last few weeks because I was in America and all and I’m totally gonna talk about that later when I’m not busy being me, but… ewwwwww, Kevin Church! Ewwwwww!

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So in catching up on my comics reading after weeks of being too busy, I finally got to read Brightest Day #0 and yeah, it’s a pretty bad comic. Whenever a character refers to the title of the comic unironically, you know you’re in severe hit-or-miss territory, and between Captain Boomerang explaining The Shawshank Redemption […]

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So somewhere on this site I’ve said that I’m willing to review products that are sent to me. This is for one major reason: I like getting free things. I am not at all ashamed of getting free things or being sent free things. If Apple wants to send me an iPad, I will review […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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See, all the hype lately is about how Grant Morrison is going to write a story where Batman travels through time and is Batman in different eras. But Batman is totally stealing this schtick. Who beat him to it? Obviously, Batman draws his inspiration from Rex the motherfucking Wonder Dog, as is right and proper.

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