So I contacted DC about the mistaken “created by” credit on Vibe. Helpfully, they’re removing the “created by” credit entirely. — Gerry Conway (@gerryconway) February 22, 2013 (This is apparently not the only such instance; Mark Waid noted in response to Conway that he did not get a creator credit for Impulse on Young Justice.) […]

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For those of you interested, we now have a “Characters” page for Al’Rashad which has… a lot of information for you! Maybe you will find it interesting. Maybe you will not.

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We saw your wang We saw your wang In the movie that we saw, we saw your wang We saw Kevin Bacon’s wang in Wild Things, and Rich Gere’s in American Gigolo, and Jason Segel’s wang in Sarah Marshall, but not erect, cause that’s a big no-no (unless it’s porn) We saw Michael Pitt’s wang […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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

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Since the thing that was previously worst in the world was a commercial, it is only fair that one such also be the best: “Yeah… cool guy.” But then Foot Locker released the even better alternate version: DOPE.

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As I’m given to understand it, Sony announced the other day that the astonishing perfection of the CD-based Playstation, which had been superseded by the even more astonishing perfection of the DVD-based Playstation 2, which had then been rendered obsolete by the Blu-Ray vision that was the Playstation 3, had in turn become an outmoded […]

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Somewhere in between Hawkman framing a petty criminal for being a space alien murderer and J’onn J’onzz threatening to lobotomize an entire building, you come to realize that all DC superhero comics are now shit and not worth your time for the foreseeable future.

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This ad: You have to understand that it is not simply that this is a bad commercial (and it’s a very bad commercial). It is that this commercial is on all the goddamn time. Watch the Raptors game? Okay, get ready to see this commercial fourteen times. Watch The Daily Show? Five times in a […]

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Have been reading a lot of reviews of Dead Space 3 lately, and although I am not terribly concerned about it – mostly because it is not on Steam, and these days if it’s not on Steam I’m not gonna bother buying a game, frankly – but there are a whole lot of people who […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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

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…Robo-Rally. For those of you that have never played, it is one of the most chaotically fun board games ever, pound-for-pound. You steer a robot through an obstacle course (one that involves, over the course of the various expansions, lasers, flamethrowers, radioactive waste, crushers and bottomless pits, among other things) using your hand of cards […]

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(hat tip to Jaime Weinman for this one)

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