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Watchmen (the movie) is really quite bad.

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Saturday Morning Watchmen. Top comment: Finally, someone got it right! — (probably not) Alan Moore

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Mark Waid, guestblogging over at John Rogers’ pad, gets it right about the basic inner story of Thor. And then someone else adds in comments: …the most perennially troubled titles are the ones that have been the most disconnected from their simple concept. Wonder Woman is the classic example. It was a title the was […]

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On Toronto’s 175th birthday, 175 Reasons To Love Toronto.

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Dragonsword is kind of weird. I mean, it starts out as a perfectly standard fantasy epic: apprentice tasked to go slay a dragon, apprentice slays dragon, sword becomes magic dragon-blade that gives him dragon-powers, and eventually heroic dragon-blade wielder must fight against evil emperor with transform-into-a-dragon power. See, that’s fine. That makes sense. What doesn’t […]

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“Our research shows that kids who are allowed to read comics are 13% more likely to get infected with gay inducing spirits and have a STD by the time they reach college. Staggeringly, this percentage jumps up to a frightening 34% when teens are allowed to read bits and pieces of comics online.” EDIT: Yes, […]

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Back when I was first watching it, the initial season of So You Think You Can Dance Australia impressed me very greatly. The dancing and choreography (which Australians call “corry,” which is inexplicably wonderful for some reason) ranged from “solid” to “exceptional,” and my only worry for the franchise was that Australia had used up […]

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Some days, when you’re armed with a gun, nothing goes right. You take aim down your barrel and fire – then fire again – and again – and every time you miss. Is it the shakes? Is it lack of skill? Lack of nerve? Or maybe it’s because you were fool enough to square off […]

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Birds stealing ice cream.

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I am generally a fan of the concept of “vertical farming,” IE building/converting skyscrapers into huge hydroponic growing towers. I think their necessity is inevitable and beyond that they’re just a good idea. But lemme get this straight: vertical pig farming? And open-air vertical pig farming at that? Did nobody involved in the design of […]

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Best not come to battle because if you battle me You’re gonna suffer a fucking bat-astrophe Kal-El, what the hell, you wanna get in a fight Fucker step off or I’ll synthesize Kryptonite Diana, I wanna introduce my Batpole To every one of your wonderful Wonder-holes Green Lanterns? Fuck you, you’re alla you overpaid I’ll […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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PAD isn’t letting go: Some people are claiming that Marvel and DC and other major publishers should embrace the concept of having anybody, anytime, do whatever the hell they want with the publishers’ property because the fans have decided that it’s going to be beneficial to the publishers. You know, the “some people say” tactic […]

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So my friend Rob was all “hey, every time a browser looks for your favicon.ico file and you don’t have one, it eats up CPU and RAM on your server.” And I said “that’s bad.” And he said “So get one.” So for the time being I’ve got a very tiny Brainiac Five up there. […]

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