DC has announced it will reboot its whole blamed universe in September, launching fifty new first issues and generally tweaking continuity to “where our characters are younger and the stories are being told for today’s audience.”  I have some thoughts about this. First, DC has done this before.  A lot.  You can argue that the […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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While I was struggling to come up with a topic for this week’s post (they don’t all spring fully-formed as though from the brow of Zeus, y’know…actually, it’d be pretty creepy to have a kid that way. You’d be sitting there, getting these headaches that get worse and worse, wondering if you have some sort […]

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…and then there was that time DC decided that the space cartoon chipmunk who was a Green Lantern needed a enemy who was sort of the space cartoon chipmunk version of Cobra Commander. And it was glorious.

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I really wanted to love Alpha Flight #0.1.  It’s written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, whom I’ve really enjoyed on Incredible Hercules, and it’s spun off from the Chaos War: Alpha Flight one-shot that I totally expected to suck and then was pretty decent and made me think I could learn to appreciate […]

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So over on America’s Best Dance Crew this season we’re getting a sort of Sanjaya Malakar situation developing: one of the crews is getting way more votes than their skill would reasonably deserve: Iconic Boyz, who aren’t terrible or anything, and in fact are really impressively good for a bunch of eleven-year-olds… but ultimately, they’re […]

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We can all agree now that it was crap, right?   I don’t mean in the purely aesthetic sense; it was pretty obvious even at the time that this was a 64-page special padded out to seven issues of thin, underplotted gruel with Millar’s penchant for pithy one-liners and macho posturing substituting for actual story […]

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There was never a better flying elbow drop in the world than Randy Savage in his prime.

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He is an old man, sitting quietly in the corner of a room where many people speak in hushed and urgent tones about things of import that will affect everyone else. It’s easy enough for him to sit in on these meetings. Nobody really looks at him until he needs them to look at him: […]

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“Dominique Strauss-Kahn couldn’t have raped that woman because 1.) He’s never been caught raping anybody before, 2.) Economists don’t rape a whole lot, as a rule, 3.) He couldn’t have raped anybody without a weapon handy, 4.) Lots of hotel maids are bad people, and 5.) He’s rich and this is all made up or […]

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