Because you get stuff like this: Yes, that is a bowtie-shaped Doctor Who cookie. Which I got and you did not. Okay, granted, my editor ate it, but she did send me a picture of it and it was addressed to me, so it still counts.

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Torontoist, as they do every year, had me go to Fan Expo and be amongst the nerds, and so I wrote stuff about that. Not mentioned: the sweet dedicated sketchbooks I started this con, one of Brainiac Five and one of Doctor Strange. (I may in future start a third dedicated sketchbook titled “Deadpool Plus […]

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In the wake of Neil Armstrong’s death I’ve been seeing a lot of “we failed Neil” handwringing because no country has yet built a moonbase or sent men to Mars or, well, whatever space-related thingy the writer particularly wants us to do that we have not yet done (granted, that is most everything, since we […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full Of course, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck fuck fuck fuck.

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Most people think of magic instruction as being your basic master/student relationship (not least because so many people just think of it as being like how the Jedi do things in Star Wars), and sometimes this is, in fact, the case. Certainly it was the case for Stephen Strange’s introduction to magic, but what many […]

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Click on thumb to see full Abuse of Playback, the technologically-derived drug made from distilled human memories, is sweeping the world – and Special Agent Fox Mulder learned too late that Playback was put forth on this planet by the Purity, seeking to condition humanity to their rule so as to better combat the Deadite […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full And, as you may or may not have noticed, we have now brought Al’Rashad up to date with late-90s webcomic technology.

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Obviously, Ayn Rand has been in the news a lot lately. Not because she’s done anything particularly newsworthy herself, of course, but because the new Republican pick for VP has frequently and publicly expressed his admiration of her before being told that loudly talking about how awesome a self-professed atheist is just doesn’t fly in […]

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Christian: Let’s assume DC’s movie efforts and Justice League series continues to hit snag after snag (likely), and by some cosmic twisting of events it all gets dropped in your lap. You’re given the mandate to reboot their efforts marvel style, but with one catch. Their needs to be a villain behind all of the […]

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Watch this compilation of finishing moves from All-Japan Pro Wrestling in the early-to-mid-1990s without wincing at least once and you will impress me: What’s interesting about this to me is that All-Japan’s death rate (and it is sad to say that death rate in wrestling is something that can be quantified) is so low. There’s […]

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