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Just a heads-up: I am heading into final exams of first-year law school over here in Mightygodkingland, which means that posting frequency will probably drop a tad. Possibly even a peck. I’m gonna try to post at least one item a day, because I’ve got my pride, but it’ll probably be definitely lighter-than-average stuff for […]

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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. Mysto is quite possibly the first ever character whose spectacular origin actively […]

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Over at Obsidian Wings, commenter Sebastian (not ObWi poster Sebastian Holsclaw, but an entirely different Sebastian) made the following comment, which needs greater spreading-about because it is completely true. So: Yoo is legal realism taken to its natural endpoint. He illustrates exactly the worst of what is wrong with the profession in the US, but […]

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Via Alasdair Watson, we have this fine campaign video starring Mike “The Latest Crazy Old Guy To Be The Libertarian Party Candidate For President” Gravel. (I think it’s a rule that the Libertarian candidate has to be at least 65, white, and unreasonably privileged.) I know it’s a trial, but try to watch the whole […]

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Blame Greg Morrow for this one, and I’ll just quote him in the email he sent me: You should write a “Why I should write LSH” about Starro. Pro or con. The Star Conqueror lies at the heart of DC Comics’ appeal, viz., it’s an adorably goofy idea that you can’t explain to a non-comics-reading […]

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FAFBLOG IS BACK ON THE AIRWAVES! Er, netwaves. Whatever. You know.

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Thanks to Karen, I have fresh Archie to analyze today! First off, Gary and Gerald are obviously gay. I mean, look at them. They are flamboyant beefcakes! Compare them to Archie, your classic heterosexual stringbean, the bodily definition of a straight male in this comics world. Tack on Veronica’s belief that Gary and Gerald think […]

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I’ve seen the sentiment expressed elsewhere that Paul Levitz has been personally involved in attempting to keep the Siegel estate from collecting their share of Superman’s copyright. Let me say without even the slightest reservation that this is crap. Greg Morrow details how Levitz was personally involved in seeing that DC increased Siegel and Shuster’s […]

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That “hey, here are conservative chicks talking about dating” post is like kryptonite to boringness! Sadly, No! already beat me to making fun of Cassy “revenues are the new profits” Fiano, but the good news is that Karol Sheinin of Alarming News is ripe for funnin’! Here she is, talking about the Barack Obama race […]

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I’ve been getting sporadic emails for the last month, all along the same theme: “what are you gonna do for April Fools’ Day? I bet it’s gonna be wild.” And I have no idea how to say “nothing, really.” Because, come on. This is, by and large, a blog where I post theoretically amusing crap […]

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My weekly TV column is, as always, up at Torontoist.

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Okay. Look, I get that comics fans, if there is even the slightest hint of having their precious weekly comic flow interrupted, will throw a collective hissy, not unlike a three-year-old who has not yet gotten his juice. (Actually, this is unfair. Juice is a lot more important than comics are.) And I understand that […]

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The decision came down yesterday that the estate of Jerry Siegel has won the copyright to Superman – specifically, “all Superman material in Action Comics #1.” I’ve already seen in a few places people worrying about how this may BANKRUPT THE COMICS INDUSTRY BY SETTING A PRECEDENT!!!!one!!1! Or, more amusingly, the legion of retards commenting […]

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