The Predator, being as it is a reflection of Carol Ferris’ “inner masculine drive,” is sort of the first transsexual supervillain, albeit only in a weird Bronze Age sort of way where issues of gender had to be addressed with space magic. (Marvel would later refine the concept with Vamp, the pretty girl who turns […]

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I was going to make fun of Michael Lynch’s incredibly witless op-ed in the New York Times which boiled down to “despite the fact that absolutely everybody in the world says that peak oil is either upon us or nearly so, they are all wrong and in fact the entire world is made of oil, […]

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Competition begins! Your judges are Jean-Marc, Tre, and Blake and Luther before Blake and Luther go off to be choreographers rather than judges. Tre says this is the best top 20 ever, which considering this is second season is not that big a deal; then Jean-Marc ups the ante by saying this is the best […]

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Although anybody familiar with the Golden Age adventure of Superman – where he frequently took on union-busters and corporate profiteers – will be surprised, here is proof that Superman supports socialist programs and government-run health care.

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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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