(FYI: Spoilers, obviously.) So… yeah. It’s okay. It really doesn’t deserve the critical beating it’s taking; it’s certainly more entertaining than, say, Daredevil (which has a Rottentomatoes score nearly double that of Green Lantern) or Ghost Rider (three percent higher) or Spider-Man 3 (forty percent higher). Ryan Reynolds gives a strong performance, as expected; Mark […]

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Ghostbusters: No matter how big and wild and crazy and wonderful a job sounds, it’s probably just a job to the people who do it. Night of the Living Dead: The biggest threat in any crisis isn’t whatever’s going wrong, it’s the stupid ways people react to it. Up: What’s important in life isn’t whether […]

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People have been emailing and asking me what I think about the editorial/story implications of the DC reboot (beyond obvious snark, anyway), and I’ve been resisting the urge to talk about that because the books aren’t out yet and for all I know there are 52 works of genius coming at us every month starting […]

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Your judges are Nigel, Mary, and an embarrassing miscut to backstage Megan Mullally, who is apparently a superfan with dance history so… why not, I guess. Jordan and Tadd: afro-jazz. Always glad to see Sean Cheeseman get work, but he can do so much more than afro-jazz. Still, the American show is all about niches. […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full And so concludes Book Two – we are already 25 percent finished. (Or not, if I decide to eventually pace it to nine issues instead. Now I know how George R. R. Martin feels.) The entire second issue is now archived in the Al’Rashad page (button at right). Book […]

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Actually, she’s almost five and a half, now. And she loves superheroes. In the mornings, on the way to school, she is frequently Batgirl who changes into Spider-Man Girl who is, in turn, secretly Green Lantern, and that’s when she’s not being Violet and assigning members of the family their identities as Mister Incredible, Dash, […]

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Ezra Klein argues that Professor X was wrong to dream of peace when the dream of “shared prosperity” would be stronger. I don’t entirely agree, because although prosperity doesn’t have to be zero-sum, the nature of mutant powers would place them frequently into competition with basic labour. Ezra rightly identifies that a power set like […]

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Dan Didio: “When we have a book about teenagers, we want it to feel like it’s a book about teenagers.” The average age of the writers working on the “teenager” books in the DCU reboot is 47.6. If you take away Sterling Gates on Hawk and Dove (which doesn’t seem to be a “teenager” book, […]

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NEW DC UNIVERSE #1: Wonder Woman PREMISE: Looks like it’s basically Wonder Woman, more or less NUMBER OF ISSUES BEFORE IT IS CANCELLED OR RELAUNCHED: 32 HOW REBOOTYLICIOUS? Reboot Hill NEW DC UNIVERSE #1: Aquaman PREMISE: “Geoff Johns made Green Lantern into a hot comics sensation! Surely he can do the same for Aquaman! Everybody […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. And since MasterChef is also on TONIGHT, that means me posting it here a day late barely affects you at all!

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Attention unit Formal-E: I have been reassigned to a new operations complex where I will create neutron stacks. Previously when creating neutron stacks, I used the widely known Z-23 neutron shifter. However, in my new operations complex, the QQX atomic slicer is the preferred tool for stack creation and deployment. Installing such an atomic slicer […]

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