Will Huston recently wrote me an email asking me to write about the appeal of Superman: You’ve already done insightful pieces on Lois Lane and Lex Luthor, but I need something to sell people on reading Superman. A lot of my friends think he’s boring, or overpowered, which I don’t get, but I’m having trouble […]

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Feb

Nicholas Courtney, RIP

Posted by John Seavey Published in Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa1rLy7pj3E

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Feb

Dwayne McDuffie, RIP

Posted by MGK Published in Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye

God fucking dammit.

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Feb

Guess Who’s Back? (You Don’t Have To, It’s On Wikipedia)

Posted by John Seavey Published in TV

So the Amazing Race (also known as “The Only Reality Show I Like”) premiered again last night for its eighteenth season, also known as “Unfinished Business” due to its complement of returning racers. This time, we kicked off with a fairly serious bang; clearly, the producers’ attitude this time is, “You all know the rules, […]

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Feb

Oscar predictions coming later this week

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

But for now my weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Feb

part two, page twelve

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

Click on thumb to see full

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Feb

FRIDAY DEBATE!

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, General Nerd Crap

Posit the first: the Guardians of the Universe are the super-evolved descendants of the Smurfs, who existed in the universe prior to the current DC Universe. vs. Posit the second: the Smurfs are evolutionary offshoots of the Guardians of the Universe, much like the Controllers or Zamarons, who eventually forgot their history. DISCUSS.

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Feb

Thursday WHO’S WHO: Firestorm

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

Firestorm suffers from a unique problem in comics, which is that he’s too powerful. This is actually a rare thing to have happen. People complain that Superman is too powerful, but Superman gets an out because he’s Superman and his stories are often about the problems of being that powerful, particularly in relation to his […]

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Feb

A quick note on the site II

Posted by MGK Published in The Site

It looks like we’re not going to need to put in a captcha/registration system after all – not even one that uses cute kitties and doggies – as James has brilliantly managed to fix the WordPress theme problem that was causing the various spamblock plugins to fritz out, and they’re working excellently now. This is […]

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Feb

Energy crisis – SOLVED

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

All we need is to do is hook up a generator to this perpetual motion machine! (Although now I must know what the trick is.)

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Feb

A quick note on the site

Posted by MGK Published in The Site

In the next couple of days I’m probably going to be installing a captcha system of some sort for commenting, simply because spam comment traffic has grown so intense that I’m literally killing 100-200 spam comments a day at this point. I don’t like the idea of having to do it, because captcha is a […]

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Feb