…was more like Flashpointless, am I right? Honestly, this is probably the worst major comics event I’ve read since… probably Millennium. It was genuinely terrible, across the board bad: whole heaps of joylessness shoved into comic after comic after comic. I mean, we all knew that Flashpoint was just an excuse to hit the reset […]

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So Black Panther: The Man Without Fear may have a really terrible title, but other than that minor issue, David Liss and Francesco Francavilla have been putting out quality work: it’s a great “gritty urban superhero” comic, and with the most recent story arc Liss has really been taking it up a notch by emphasizing […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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So I saw a few days ago where artist Patrick Zircher was advocating a Marvel Universe reboot along the lines of the one DC is doing.  And basically I think that’s a stupid, stupid idea. Case in point–DC has spent the whole summer running from the term “reboot.”  They even have a FAQ somewhere where […]

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Last week…okay, this week, but it was meant to be last week…I talked a bit about Terry Pratchett’s latest novels, and someone suggested in the comments that I should write a “So You Want To Get Into Discworld” post. This is actually a really good idea; the question of “Where do you start with the […]

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My book buying budget has been tight of late, so I just recently had the chance to sit down with Terry Pratchett’s most recent Discworld books. Before I begin discussing them, let me just say that I do believe Terry Pratchett to be the finest writer I have ever had the privilege of reading. This […]

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My preview of Fan Expo things is up at Torontoist, and I am pretty sure that between the Layton obituary and this article I have a greater breadth of difference from highbrow to lowbrow in a single week in Torontoist history than anyone ever has or ever will. Also: obviously, I will be at Fan […]

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My obituary for Jack is up at Torontoist.

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On Twitter, regarding the Animalympics posts, Tobias Carroll writes I am absurdly happy that you did this. Said cartoon had nearly passed into the realm of “things I thought I’d hallucinated.” Everybody has things like this, don’t they? Even in the age of Google. One of mine, for example, is an educational cartoon from the […]

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Been a busy weekend, but let’s face it, I had to get to this sooner or later. I can’t talk about DC’s greatest heroes winding up at J.K. Rowling’s magical wizard academy without talking about Marvel’s big heroes and where they’d wind up. (I’d discuss the X-Men, but let’s face it, they already are at […]

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