Aug

We have met the enemy…

Posted by MGK Published in WTF

…and it is eleven-year-old girls who ask questions at Presidential town hall meetings. Clearly, the next step for this eleven-year-old girl is that she will become a Muslim terrorist. She must be stopped before she kills again for the first time!

26 comments

Aug

Comics Things I Am Sick Of #36

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Bullseye. I ranted about this on a podcast a while back but fuck it, he’s still here so let me say it again: I do not know when Bullseye became the new Joker and I don’t care, because Bullseye fucking sucks. Bullseye was always perfectly decent in times of yore, and it wasn’t because the […]

56 comments

Aug

I ALSO CAN MAKE LISTS

Posted by Andrew Foley Published in WTF

There was a time when a kid could walk into pretty much any North American drugstore or supermarket and find themselves exposed to a wide range of Top 21 Lists. The reasons for the current absence of Lists (Top 21 or otherwise) in such outlets are far too complicated, to say nothing of depressing, to […]

12 comments

Aug

DEAR AMERICA WE ARE SMALL BUT WE HAVE BETTER DANCERS THAN YOU SO HA HA HA

Posted by MGK Published in TV

Holy shit, the season premiere of So You Think You Can Dance Canada is one of the best audition episodes I’ve ever seen. Melanie, that eighteen-year-old “first-time auditioner” dancing like a female version of Brandon? Only two “funny” bad auditions in two hours, and both over with relatively quickly? More sick auditions in one episode […]

8 comments

Aug

How I spent three days at Worldcon and never saw Neil Gaiman

Posted by Matthew Johnson Published in General Nerd Crap

If you have ever thought “The one thing that would improve Montreal is more people in Starfleet uniforms,” you would have been mightily pleased by this year’s Worldcon. Possibly the funniest thing about the con was that it was held in a really staid part of town, at a convention centre that normally hosts business […]

16 comments

Aug

MGK’s Far Superior And In No Way Derivative Top 21 Most Influential Comics Writers List

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

I CAN MAKE LISTS TOO YOU KNOW 1.) Jerry Siegel. For superheroes in general, but also the idea of superhero “families,” lifespan histories (remember: he invented Superboy as well, not to mention tons of the Superman mythos) and the idea if not the rigorous application of continuity, which has extended beyond superheroes to all aspects […]

43 comments

Aug

Wa-hoo.

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

6 comments

Aug

Deep thoughts on the Great Health Care Debate of ’09

Posted by Andrew Foley Published in Health Care

Personally, I have only shallow thoughts on the American health care debate. Any attempt on my part to articulate a response to the notion that Paris Hilton could possibly deserve better health care than a factory farm-raised chicken, never mind an actual human being, immediately devolves into a scream of impotent fury. So here’s what […]

21 comments

Aug

21 Influential Mainstream Comics Writers (For Better or Worse)

Posted by Justin Zyduck Published in Comics

Howdy, MGKommunity. The following is a revised version of a post that first appeared on my blog. Thanks for having me. The Onion AV Club recently compiled a list called Reinventing the pencil: 21 artists who changed mainstream comics (for better or worse). The purpose of any such list in a magazine or website, whether […]

66 comments

Aug

If anybody can explain to me how the cough drops help I will be impressed

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, WTF

19 comments

Aug

There’s nothing you can do to stop it now.

Posted by Andrew Foley Published in Nothing Else Fit

From the Tuesday, August 11, 2009 edition of The Hollywood Reporter: Universal Studios has ticket to ride on “My Little Pony” “GI Joe” director Sommers to direct 2011 tentpole based on childhood toy with no noticeable storyline by Andrew Foley “2011 is going to be a great year for fans of gritty, action-packed films based […]

23 comments

Aug

Things I Liked This Week And Things I Didn’t

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Gaming, TV

LIKED – Ghost Rider: Heaven’s Fire seems a bit gratuitous in some ways (was there a reason this couldn’t just be in the regular Ghost Rider comic instead of pumping the price to four bucks because you included a measly 70s reprint in the back, Marvel?), but who cares if it’s a bit of a […]

3 comments

Aug

YO JOE

Posted by Flapjacks Published in Flicks

So I went to see G.I. Joe and don’t belive the critics because this movie is fantastic. Unless the critics said it was good. Then you can believe them. Those critics! Never know what they’re going to be critical about! Anyway I know a lot of you are skeptical so sit back. I am going […]

55 comments

Aug

Cut Away For Justice

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

How Cry For Justice #2 is possibly the most emblematic comic book of this age: 1.) The narrative presents to the reader two fights. 2.) Of these two fights, the reader enters the first (a traditional hero v. hero misunderstanding fight between Mikaal Tomas and Congorilla) at about the 95 percent finished mark, after the […]

24 comments

Aug