Mike W. Barr, during his run on the Outsiders, had a real knack for creating mediocre bad-guy teams. The original Force of July set the bar fairly low, and then Mike W. Barr consistently failed to meet that bar of his own creation. The Nuclear Family, the People’s Heroes… he just kept churning them out. […]

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Insta-click send-a-letter (not just an email, but a hardcopy) to all significant government parties regarding the new Canadian copyright bill (which is bad). Register your discontent! You know, if you’re Canadian.

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…so this week, my article for TheCourt.ca is about Boumediene v. Bush instead. It counts because we consider American precedents to be somewhat persuasive!

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WRITER GUY: So I have this idea for a story. EDITOR GUY: Hit me! WRITER GUY: Right, so it’s World War II, and Hitler – EDITOR GUY: Whoa! Hitler! WRITER GUY: Right. So Hitler meets this guy – EDITOR GUY: – and it turns out to be himself! From the future! WRITER GUY: But he’s […]

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In honor of this event, I feel the need to contribute to the “I Am Aware Of All Internet Traditions” meme freshly being birthed into the web. So. (because lolcats are now traditional, see)

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One of the Harper government’s big national security hullaballooes has been the arrest and trials of the “Toronto 18,” a band of Muslim supposed-terrorists who were conspiring to blow up Parliament. (Of course, they had no idea how to do it until undercover RCMP officers explained to them how to do it, but that is […]

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Well, they would be a problem, but they saw the thunder coming for them. Even in the deepest Sahara, every bandit knows not to mess with Rex the motherfucking Wonder Dog.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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One of the right-wing Canadian blogosphere’s great causes is their opposition to human rights tribunals, mostly because of the hate speech provisions these human rights tribunals sometimes take up. (To hear them complain, you would think human rights tribunals spend the majority of their time censoring people, when in fact most cases heard by these […]

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A mock-Tijuana Bible featuring John McCain and George W. Bush. Explicit, NSFW, and more than a little gross, frankly.

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Comic fans who love industry drama should head over to this post about DC’s recent editorial snafus, mostly because the very-recently-fired Chuck Dixon shows up in comments and completely rags on Dan Didio without ever actually saying the name “Dan Didio.”

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Via Norman Wilner.

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Scott asked me for my take on the new Canadian DMCA (and make no mistake, that’s what it is). Most people know I tend to be somewhat “copyleft” when it comes to my attitudes on copyright; I favour lower terms of private ownership of copyright for a larger public domain, flexible and relatively wide-ranging fair […]

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