So here’s the thing. I have a lot of stuff I don’t want. A bunch of comics, mostly. Some of it is just taking up shelf-space and I don’t want them any more; some of it is stuff I have “upgraded” to nicer editions; some of it is stuff I got for cheap or free […]

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So last time I was, as the grandfathers say, rappin’ at you kids, I was surprised that DC has decided to turn Superman/Batman into a look back at specific past events. I asked, “Why is DC pushing ‘untold tales” when ‘untold tales’ are rarely sales successes?” We might ask a broader question, “Why does anybody […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Where do gods come from in the Marvel Universe, anyway? I mean, at this point it’s pretty clear that they exist independent of human belief, so the ever-popular Terry Pratchett theory of godly creation (which was adopted by Neil Gaiman for the DCU in Sandman) is right out. They’re just sort of there. Either they […]

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Someone recently emailed me asking “when are you going to do another comics parody?” It’s a question I get fairly steadily, so I thought I’d address it right now: the answer is “who knows.” See, the thing that makes parodying something like Civil War fun is that, as stupid as Civil War fundamentally is, a […]

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Sonia Sotomayor, commenting during oral argument in the Citizens United case which challenges campaign finance restrictions on corporations: “[Judges] created corporations as persons, gave birth to corporations as persons… There could be an argument made that that was the court’s error to start with…[imbuing] a creature of state law with human characteristics.” That is huge. […]

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This is somewhat old news (in 2009 terms, at least, which is four days ago) that somewhat slipped under the radar, but I was reminded of it when Andrew Hickey’s impressive and exhaustive (but exhaustive in the good way!) “Hyperpost” series got me to thinking about comic book continuity, and the desirability thereof. To wit: […]

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…but watching Andy Richter absolutely destroy Wolf Blitzer at Celebrity Jeopardy is delicious. Mostly because the questions were so goddamned easy, as befits Celebrity Jeopardy. Dana Delany at least seemed to know what she was doing and was just getting beaten to the punch on the buzzer, but Wolf Blitzer was just flailing at answers. […]

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The Tarantula is interesting in that everything that’s been done with him in the modern era is effectively unconnected to the Golden Age rendition of the character. After all, if you’ve read any of the Golden Age appearances of the character, he’s probably one of the most generic mystery men out there. A boring yellow-and-purple […]

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Is there any good reason why politicians who leave or are voted out of office shouldn’t be executed?

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So the Tories up here in the Theoretically Frozen North have managed to stave off an election once again, and what irks me is that they did exactly what they pilloried the Liberals and NDP for doing last year: namely, they got the Bloc on their side with governmental concessions. Somehow I doubt the screaming […]

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Your guest judges this week are Dan “Best Judge In SYTYCD History Who Is Not Jason Coleman From Australia” Karaty and… Karen Kain? For reals? Holy shit. Melanie and Cody: hip-hop. There isn’t too much to say here: this was fantastic, another example of how Luther Brown can choreo hip-hop without any need for elaborate […]

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If you had any doubt that Rex the Wonder Dog views physics as being strictly optional, watch how he rescues people from burning buildings. EXTRA BONUS: Proof that Rex the Wonder Dog has walked on the surface of the sun.

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