Socraticsilence, in the recent Doug Ford post, asks: So admittedly this is an outsiders perspective but I’ve always gotten the idea from you and other Canadian political commentators that Rob Ford is an amiable boob, a well-meaning moron with a bit of a mean streak but not overtly cruel and/or calculating- kind of a fat […]

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May

Enough cameos to float a Buick

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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May

part six, page twenty

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

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

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May

Why I have lost all respect for Doug Ford

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics, Politics, The Internets

Now, you might be thinking “but wait, you have no respect for the Ford Brothers.” And that is not precisely true. Rob Ford is excellent at constituent service, for example – he genuinely loves it and takes pride in it, it is quite possibly the best thing about a generally awful person. You can at […]

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May

To Kindlefinity And Beyond

Posted by MGK Published in Intellectual Property, Law, Writering

So Amazon has announce Kindle Worlds, which is kind of sickly brilliant: it’s basically an online publishing house for fan-fiction, wherein royalties are paid to the owners of the IP and to the author of the fanfic. And the royalty to the author is, frankly, not bad – 20-35% of total revenue of digital sales […]

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May

The Ambition Of the V4 Legion

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

In email, Michael Paciocco asks: So, I’m reading this. And there’s a lot of reference and reverence for the “Five Years Later” Legion stuff. Which is sort of before my time (didn’t even start reading DC regularly until post-Zero Hour – exceptions being Waid’s Flash, the Superman stuff, and the beginning of the Kyle Rayner […]

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May

Unfortunately The Goodwin Games is basically just getting shoved out there to be cancelled

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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May

part six, page nineteen

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

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

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May

Non-Poll Based Opinion Solicitation…Thingy

Posted by John Seavey Published in Comics, My Readers Got Comments

This summer, over the 4th of July weekend, I will be at CONvergence in the Twin Cities, for the benefit of anyone who wants to attend and geek out with me. (Paul Cornell will also be there. I won’t be upset if you tell him that you came for him and not for me. We’ll […]

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May

Putting the TARDIS before the horse

Posted by Matthew Johnson Published in Film/TV, General Nerd Crap, Space Nazis

So over on io9 they’ve posted an article about the central problem with Stephen Moffatt’s Doctor Who, and while I agree with some of their points, I think that the central problem with it — with almost any incarnation of Doctor Who, though particularly with this one — is that it makes absolutely no sense. […]

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May

Lies, damned lies, and statistics, where “statistics” is defined as “a video of a guy smoking something”

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics, Law, Politics, The Internets

Torontoist asked me to discuss how Canadian libel law would work if Rob Ford wanted to sue the press over the “crack-smoking story” so that is what I did there. Now here is that GIF of Ford trying to throw a football again!

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May