Your guest judges this week are Lil C and Kristin Chenoweth, which makes me think they have the judge-choosing equivalent of a roulette wheel somewhere and it broke, but both of them are insightful and eloquent and make Nigel’s terrible jokes a little more bearable, and the prospect of seeing strong dancers eliminated in favour […]

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Recently I said that Marvel and DC have two different storytelling paradigms: DC’s is fantastic and Marvel’s pseudorealistic. Marvel heroes work best when the essential ludicrousness of their situation isn’t ignored, and the humdrum problems of everyday human life intrude: Spider-Man has to hustle to keep a job or a girlfriend, Iron Man has to […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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I normally don’t post things that overtly disagree with MGK, because he’s gracious enough to let me use his site and the much larger audience it provides, but after reading his post on DC and Wildstorm I felt that a different perspective might be warranted. Because while he thinks it’s yet another mistake in a […]

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Bob asks: The DC relaunch is folding the Wildstorm Universe into the DCU proper. Is this a good idea? Christ no. Many many other people have already criticized the way the reboot seems to be taking all of the worst ideas from the 90s and creating something that’s instantly dated, but what the inclusion of […]

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Your guest judge this week is Debbie Reynolds, who is dance royalty and also completely blah as a judge. BRING BACK THE CHOREOGRAPHER JUDGES ALREADY PLEASE AND THANK YOU. Nancy Travis Ryan and Ricky: jazz. Mandy Moore Does The Eighties Volume 844; nothing particularly interesting about the SOOPASEXY choreography, but then again I watch the […]

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People requested more boardgaming posts, so: Dice are what a lot of people think of when they think of board games (well, that or tiles with letters on), thanks to childhoods spent playing roll-and-move games like Sorry! or snakes-and-ladders. Because of this, many designers have tried to incorporate dice into board games in different ways. […]

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Via Pajiba: One thing I feel needs mentioning: this is not Martin Campbell’s cut of the film, but the studio’s. I live in New Orleans where it was shot, I read the shooting script, all of which was painstakingly filmed with intense research, and all of that was left on the cutting room floor — […]

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It’s been a couple of months since I last took requests, so… have at it. Usual caveats apply: no “I should writes,” and if you want to request more comics – well, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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In a recent tweet, Michelle Bachmann’s campaign wrote: Lesson in economic recovery: Consider Canada. No stimulus & unemployment is 20% lower than US. Uh, guys – we did have a stimulus. We passed stimulus in 2009 as part of the budget, at practically the same time that the USA did: $40 billion in spending and […]

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The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald. First in a seven-book series about young boys growing up in late 19th-century Utah (Catholics rather than Mormons, if you’re wondering), and specifically the adventures of an intelligent, indeed devious young boy and his little brother (who narrates). What is particularly great about these books is that the […]

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Due to some family issues, Davinder’s had to take a brief break, but rest assured Al’Rashad will recommence as soon as he is able.

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