Mar

Friday All In The Family

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Mar

Thursday WHO’S WHO: The Forgotten Villains

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I fucking love the Forgotten Villains. Look at them. These are old-school villains, who know the value of a good maniacal laugh, who know that good henchmen are hard to find but easy to slaughter in a fit of rage, who know that if you haven’t given the hero at least one tiny way to […]

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Mar

Far be it from me to editorialize using the second image-only post of the day, but:

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(It’s the last page of the first issue of Oracle: Battle For The Cowl.) Top comment: Apparently the RIAA is not kidding around with copy protection. — malakim2099

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Mar

FUCK YEAH

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Top comment: And I bet Mel Gibson’s dad STILL denies that any of this really happened! — Cookie McCool

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Mar

Fox News… actually, let’s just stop right there. You don’t need to hear any more. Just… “Fox News.”

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This bit of idiocy has been making the rounds: Now, I understand that Red Eye is supposed to be a late night “funny” show of some kind, insofar as any show on Fox News can be intentionally funny, which is generally speaking not that much. And I note that the combined military experience of Greg […]

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Mar

This Will Provide An Admirable Break From Routine! (Or Not.)

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Mar

Fun Science Time

Posted by MGK Published in The Miscellaneous Sciences And Crap Like That

Make a hollow penny. (Where does one get hydrochloric acid, anyhow?)

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Mar

The Least Feminist Comics Heroine Of All Time

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…is the Blonde Phantom. For those not in the know, the Blonde Phantom is a Golden Age Marvel comics character from the Timely era. (Of course, comics being comics, she eventually showed up as a middle-aged version of herself in John Byrne’s She-Hulk run, and her daughter eventually became the Phantom Blonde, her successor. Of […]

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Mar

My Readers Have Requests, Beating Horse To Death Edition

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In email: In terms of internet business models, 2005-2015 will be to comics as 1995-2005 was to music. Discuss. It’s a cute truism, but not entirely accurate. Firstly, the key similarity: the market by and large considers the product to be poorly distributed and overpriced. People like comics, almost universally; the failure of the industry […]

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Mar

Interesting Link of the Day

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IkeaHacker. Like most “life hacking” sites, it occasionally goes overboard in trying to describe new uses for existing items as “hacks,” but this bike rack, this desktop decluttering solution, these laptop stands or this DVD wall unit are all good examples of what the site can do when it’s not trying too hard.

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Mar

Friday All In The Family

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Mar

Thursday WHO’S WHO: Brain Storm

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Fifteen reasons why Brain Storm sucks. 1.) His helmet looks like an exotic dildo. 2.) He first attacked the League because he thought they had killed his brother, but in fact, he had accidentally teleported his brother himself, using his own powers – to France. 3.) Seriously, it says that right there. Teleported his brother […]

37 comments

Mar

Mini Linkblogging Wednesdays

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, The Internets, The Miscellaneous Sciences And Crap Like That

Hippo sweat to be turned into sunscreen. Key part is this: After analyzing the hippo sweat under a microscope, the researcher found that there were two types of crystaline structures in it – banded and non-banded. He pinpointed that the banded ones were “characterized by concentric dark rings,” which seemed to be the key to […]

23 comments

Mar