Apr

Useless Ideas: Impulse

Posted by John Seavey Published in Comics, Nothing Else Fit, Writering

Back in 2005 or so, when I actually cared enough about DC to pay attention to them, it occurred to me that there was an interesting vacancy created by the departure of Wally West as the Flash and the arrival of Bart Allen. Specifically, it meant that the identity of Impulse was just floating around […]

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Apr

Whiteness and how it keeps cropping up in dance movies

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks, Politics

A couple weeks back Alyssa Rosenberg wrote a great piece about white actors Hollywood keeps trying to push despite their continuing failure to succeed. (For those who quibble about Sam Worthington’s inclusion: watch Man on a Ledge and then try to tell me differently.) These actors are not bad actors per se (although I would […]

36 comments

Apr

Vice-Presidential Prognosticatin’

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Photoshopp'd, Politics

Now that Mitt Romney is the Republicanc candidate for president in all but name, the nation turns to consider his nominee for Vice-President. Who should fill the role? There are, of course, many possibilities. Senator Marco Rubio PROS: – Shores up the conservative base – Extremely telegenic – Guarantees that at least a half-dozen Hispanic […]

45 comments

Apr

part four, page sixteen

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

Click on thumb to see full For those keeping track, this officially marks one hundred pages of Al’Rashad. So, you know. Go us.

9 comments

Apr

Okay, Dreamworks, you win

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

Dammit, this hits me right in my sweet spot:

33 comments

Apr

Eastern Standard Improved Archie

Posted by MGK Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Comics, Interactive Fun Time Party

26 comments

Apr

The story problems of the WWE

Posted by MGK Published in Writering

So I did indeed watch WrestleMania, which mostly sucked. Some people are touting Undertaker/HHH and Cena/Rock as being good matches, but I thought both were lousy – the first was a couple of old limping guys trying to make Jim Ross’ dramatic announcing meaningful, and the second was just sloppy wrestling. Jericho/CM Punk was not […]

37 comments

Apr

Also, YEEAAAHHHHHHHH

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

7 comments

Apr

Strong Female Characters Vs. “Strong Female Characters”

Posted by John Seavey Published in Books, Comics, Flicks, General Nerd Crap, Writering

It’s become an overused and empty catchphrase with almost depressing speed; faced with sexist caricature after sexist caricature, feminist comics fans said that they wanted strong female characters as an alternative to women who serve no purpose other than to be the eye/arm-candy for male protagonists. And seemingly within days, every character was being described […]

68 comments

Apr