Canadian researchers invent way to create peptides out of water, and rather than patent it decide to go open-source with it. Now, my first reaction is of course to say that “peptides” sound like some form of laundry detergent, but apparently this is not the case and they are in fact important proteins which are […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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I’m extremely powerful but I don’t want to boast I can use my heat vision to make fresh heated toast And technically I’m much stronger than Diana or J’onn Nearly as fast as Wally, I don’t think that I’m wrong I’m just as smart as Batman though some people think I”m not I know that […]

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Vintage vampire-hunter kits.

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I have decided that I am going to write for the television. After all, if John Rogers can do it, anybody can do it! It is an especially great career for me because you don’t need no special training or knowledge except the power of imagination! And I have plenty of imagination. If you could […]

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Watchmen (the movie) is really quite bad.

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Saturday Morning Watchmen. Top comment: Finally, someone got it right! — (probably not) Alan Moore

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Mark Waid, guestblogging over at John Rogers’ pad, gets it right about the basic inner story of Thor. And then someone else adds in comments: …the most perennially troubled titles are the ones that have been the most disconnected from their simple concept. Wonder Woman is the classic example. It was a title the was […]

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On Toronto’s 175th birthday, 175 Reasons To Love Toronto.

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Dragonsword is kind of weird. I mean, it starts out as a perfectly standard fantasy epic: apprentice tasked to go slay a dragon, apprentice slays dragon, sword becomes magic dragon-blade that gives him dragon-powers, and eventually heroic dragon-blade wielder must fight against evil emperor with transform-into-a-dragon power. See, that’s fine. That makes sense. What doesn’t […]

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“Our research shows that kids who are allowed to read comics are 13% more likely to get infected with gay inducing spirits and have a STD by the time they reach college. Staggeringly, this percentage jumps up to a frightening 34% when teens are allowed to read bits and pieces of comics online.” EDIT: Yes, […]

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Back when I was first watching it, the initial season of So You Think You Can Dance Australia impressed me very greatly. The dancing and choreography (which Australians call “corry,” which is inexplicably wonderful for some reason) ranged from “solid” to “exceptional,” and my only worry for the franchise was that Australia had used up […]

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Some days, when you’re armed with a gun, nothing goes right. You take aim down your barrel and fire – then fire again – and again – and every time you miss. Is it the shakes? Is it lack of skill? Lack of nerve? Or maybe it’s because you were fool enough to square off […]

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