I am a natural-born luddite. My mother fondly remembers me tossing my booties at her sewing machine as an infant.1 My irrational hatred and fear of technology is profound, but not without just cause. As far as I can tell, machines hate me right back, on a fundamental, and personal, level. Examples of this antipathy […]

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FLAPJACKS: I have a question. ME: Oh, good. FLAPJACKS: Why is Spider-Man poor? ME: Because he can’t hold down a steady job because of great responsibility and so forth. FLAPJACKS: Yeah, I get that, but why is he poor? Why doesn’t he just go on a reality TV show and make a lot of money? […]

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(Original image by the Weasel King.)

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Hey there, special internet friends. Justin again. I can do more than just make lists and slight Will Eisner’s contributions to comics as a medium, you know! I can also talk a little bit about the superhero comics that grabbed my imagination by the yarbles as a youth, and how I engage with them as […]

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Hi, I’m Jaime Weinman, of Something Old, Nothing New and TV Guidance; thanks to MGK for inviting me into his domain. Now, I love snarky comments about Betty Cooper’s insanity, or Archie comics panels and the improvement thereof. But I’m also interested in trying to learn more about the non-official history of Archie as a […]

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SCENE: A STUDIO BIGWIG and his three JUNIOR EXECUTIVES sit at a table. BIGWIG: You know, other junior executives would have folded in the face of an economic downturn, but not my indefatigable team of four executives. (The FIRST JUNIOR EXECUTIVE looks around, confused.) FIRST: Four comes after three, right? BIGWIG: Oh, yes, that’s right. […]

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So I’ve been getting email after email after friggin’ email from nerds who have decided that this blog is the official “government policy for nerds” blog and who want me to talk about healthcare again. Which, cool that I have a niche and all, but yeesh, how much can you talk about healthcare really? Seriously. […]

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“In the early years of the 21st Century, America and the world reeled in horror in response to a vicious, unwarranted attack to some of the country’s most cherished institutions. I refer of course to Marvel Comics miniseries Ultimatum …”  – Introduction to the Jeph Loeb chapter of Lloyd DeGroot’s “They Really Mean It: America’s […]

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After my last post, there were many insightful questions raised in the comments (including a well-reasoned debate on British standards of attractiveness. Surprisingly, no one has yet brought up Alan Rickman.) Anyway, among the questions was: CB: Also, Elizabeth, is it true that Brits have terrible food? Because every time I read a Harry Potter […]

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A guide to how this season’s competing crews on America’s Best Dance Crew will be eliminated. Ninth place: The Crew That Gets Eliminated By The Judges To Demonstrate That Quality And Talent Will Not Necessarily Save Your Ass Eighth place: The Crew That Should Have Been Eliminated Ninth But Got A Chance To Prove They […]

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For those interested, this week at The Court I wrote about the failure of an objective reasonable person standard to take race into account. So, you know: thrills!

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It’s rare that you find a historical hero who is instantly anachronistic, but Miss Liberty is that hero. Count the stars on her top (which, at the time, would have probably only have been suitable for a really, really weird prostitute, but never mind that now). At a bare minimum she has sewn 24 into […]

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When I got the word that I was admitted to the MGK Legion of Super-Bloggers (Check it out! Shiny new flight ring!), I thought long and hard about what I could bring to this mightiest of blogs that it didn’t already have. It was while adjusting my knickers in the lift on the way back […]

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