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I have never actually had this conversation in real life, so I have felt free to use creative license in writing it down. It therefore goes without saying that you should imagine me dressed as a Viking warrior (historically accurate or Kirby-style, your choice), and the other fellow as eleven feet tall and smelling faintly […]

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Entertaining three-hour diversion that seems shorter than it really is, has much, much less action than you would have expected, and once and for all answers the question of “is there anything Eli Roth hates more than women?” with “why, yes: Nazis.”

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Despite my recent preoccupation with the company’s past, I have to admit I don’t follow current Archie comics much, and when I do, I conclude that it’s not just nostalgia talking: they really aren’t funny enough now. All the emphasis on soapy plot twists and gimmicks is not a good sign for a franchise whose […]

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New Jersey judge takes away child from adoptive parents because the parents do not believe in God. Well, okay, so it happened in 1970. Teach me to be knee-jerk.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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(Man, that is an acronym right there. Anyway.) I have much higher hopes for the Canadian top 20 this year than I did for America’s season 5 top 20. Partially this is because I am biased and Canada is awesome sauce. But more importantly, it’s because this Canadian top 20 is much more balanced in […]

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Keenly aware as I am of the latest trends in the fascinating and frustrating world of political discourse in the United States, it’s dawned on me over the last week or two that I’m surrounded on all sides by Nazis.  Once you had to be a real asshole to be considered a Nazi. Now apparently […]

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LIKED – The Web is the first of JMS’ “Red Circle” comics that I’ve actually really enjoyed. This is not to say that Hangman and Inferno were bad comics; they were competently made bland ones, featuring Yet Another Spectre and a kinda boring guy-who-transforms-into-another-guy-who’s-on-fire. The Web actually has a pretty good hook, though, in that […]

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Globetrotter XL.

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Any cartoonists/illustrators with a facility for cariacature interested in working on a small side-project (non-comic-related) with the promise of precisely zero compensation – email me and we’ll talk.

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Following up on “the Mike Huckabee” (be genial and friendly, present absolutely psychotic ideas as reasonable, and be polite to people you slandered last week) and “the Bill Kristol” (endlessly assert the moral superiority of the military over the general public in all instances regardless of circumstance or relevance), I believe we can now add […]

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No Who’s Who this week, as momentous events necessitate a pause: namely, the publication of Archie #600, the now-notorious “Archie proposes to Veronica in an imaginary story” issue. Now, back when the issue was first announced, I took the opportunity to make fun of Betty being insane, and that took on a life of its […]

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