When 24 first debuted, everybody was making a huge deal about it being a story told in real time (well, except for Keifer Sutherland never having to go to the bathroom or anything like that), because it was, in fairness, something of a novelty. Mostly because nobody had seen Nick of Time. It absolutely bombed […]

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I wanted to include this in yesterday’s post, but I couldn’t come up with a gag for it. I mean, sometimes making a joke is just superfluous, you know?

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I can’t stop shuddering.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a song. I thought I’d scan the box covers and give you all a look back into the fun of yesteryear.

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Every Thursday, mightygodking.com returns to the pages of Who’s Who, the classic 1980s DC comic book encyclopedia of their characters. Every week, a character shall be judged on the only scale scientific enough that matters: the Rex The Wonder Dog scale of fantasticosity. Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Wait,” you are thinking, “didn’t Golden […]

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When even Jonah Goldberg says that a presidential debate was just watercarrying for the Republican party, you know it’s a shit debate. Of course, there was also this handy condensed guide to the first forty-five minutes of the debate: ABC SHITHEAD: Senator Obama, are you a racist elitist Marxist who hates the flag? OBAMA: No, […]

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So recently John Byrne did a one-off “my version” drawing of Dr. Doom in response to the now-infamous Brian Michael Bendis “bad dialogue” Doom panel from Mighty Avengers #11. Well, let no man say I don’t give them equal treatment.

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I might have mentioned this one before in passing, but since today is my Property exam I’m going to cheat a bit and use it. There was a bit of a minor fan kerfuffle (nothing along the lines of the recent “that’s not how Dr. Doom talks” kerfuffle, you understand – this is the piddling, […]

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Federally funded scientists created fertilizer from human and industrial waste and tested it in poor black neighborhoods without informing residents of the potential risks. Key sentence: “However, there has been a paucity of research into the possible harmful effects of heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, other chemicals, and disease-causing microorganisms often found in sludge.”

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Of course it has Brainiac Five in it. This is not a coincidence!

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