My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Something that has been cropping up in the comments every so often is the observation that most of these posts are, thus far, “dude-centric,” and there are no female characters being mentioned and so on and so forth. And the thing of it is that when I think about how to write Doctor Strange, this […]

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There are Sorcerers Supreme in every parallel universe. Sooner or later, one of them would eventually decide that contacting other universes for advice or information would prove useful. That’s what the Supremenet is for. Of course, calling it the “Supremenet” conjures up the expectations that come with all things internetty, which is why most Sorcerers […]

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Seven dogs and six cats that are probably much richer than you.

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Not an “intern” this time, but something else that needs to be addressed – namely, the need to fill out the magical world of Earth-616, which is dreadfully undermanned at present. In the old time Baiame the Sky Hero, the first wise man, made the world and all people and taught the Aborigines the magic […]

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There is always a Sorcerer Supreme, and for very nearly as long as there have been Sorcerer Supremes, there have been Wongs. “Wong” isn’t really a name per se. It’s a title that the bearer takes in place of his name (which is why it doesn’t really relate back to any actual culture – “Wong” […]

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I know all of comics fandom has mocked Greg Land’s need to trace photo-reference as much as humanly possible. It is entirely possible that I might have done it once. So generally it is not worth pointing out how crap he is. But. Understand that these two panels, which indeed appear right next to another […]

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There are certain individuals whose names have been adopted as shorthand in the fiction community. When you see their name, it usually means weird and/or wild shit is going to go down. There is no reason for a writer to throw in a reference to Nikolai Tesla, for example, unless they want to later have […]

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Via reader Josh R.: Top comment: Shit, MGK, way to blow his cover. After he went to all the trouble of getting the giant afro body wig and custom lei fitted, not to mention playing the “cute and playful” card to distract the international press corps from the growing pile of brutally savaged dead assassins […]

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There have been a lot of Sorcerer Supremes, and not all of them have been glowingly wonderful people. Some of them have been venal. Some have been downright evil. Some were crazy. You don’t have to be admirable or upstanding to protect all reality. You don’t even have to be all there. Sometimes, this has […]

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So the blogosphere is starting to go abuzz about Observe and Report‘s date rape scene. Specifically, of the “Jody Hill is an asshole because he used date rape for a gag” thing. Now, if you want to say that date rape is de facto impossible to use for comic purposes, that’s an entirely valid argument […]

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It’s no surprise that Dracula, upon his return to the Marvel Universe, would immediately begin preparations to create a “home turf” with as many loyal vampire minions as humanly possible. This is because of one thing Dracula will never, ever admit: Dracula is fucking stone-cold terrified of Stephen Strange. Blade? Blade is a pussy. Blade’s […]

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Due to a couple of scheduling/software conflicts, two spots have opened up in the official MGK fantasy baseball league, so there is now room for new people to get their asses handed to them by my almighty draft powers participate in a fun time that will be healthy competition for all concerned.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Dr. Strange, as previously noted, is the guardian of this entire universe from other dimensions and realities that would do it harm. Traditionally this ends up being things like Dormammu or somebody, because other dimensions are traditionally the source of most hostility towards Universe-616. Of course, there are also parallel realities, and it’s rather silly […]

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