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Yesterday, I went into a comic book store and I picked up a comic book set in mainstream Marvel continuity for the first time since…2007? The last thing I really remembered reading was ‘World War Hulk’, which I gave up on because I realized that it had been four years since a major Marvel story […]

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Dave Lartigue did this a while back and I thought it was a good idea, so I’m stealing it. I am always looking for new music to add to my iPod playlist, so: recommend five songs to me. Any genre. Whatever you feel like recommending. (WARNING: I am not historically a fan of any metal […]

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David Uzimeri on Twitter complained thusly: legitimately sad shailene woodley won't be mary jane because i'm still annoyed by the nerds saying she wasn't hot enough — David Uzumeri (@DavidUzumeri) January 21, 2014 And I had heard nothing of this, mostly because I tend to ignore nerd news about casting unless people make a fuss […]

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I read this in IDW’s April solicitation for its Transformers comic: “MEGATRON joins the AUTOBOTS! The perfect jumping-on point for new readers!” This may in fact be the least true statement in comics. I don’t know, it seems like the whole point of Megatron is that he is irredeemably evil. I guess it’s the cannon. […]

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Voting is now open for the 2013 rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards. You can vote HERE. Following the nominations period, we have compiled all of the nominations into pulldown menus to make voting faster and easier (since the pulldown menus should include most, if not all, of the most popular candidates for each award), while still allowing for […]

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So we are well into 2014, and commenters have had their chance to answer as many questions in the 2013 Not the King William’s College Quiz, and have mostly done fairly well. A few questions I thought were gimmes just got missed, a few I thought were stumpers got answered quickly, that sort of thing. […]

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A lot of kafuffle was raised yesterday about Michael Douglas being cast as Hank Pym in the Ant-Man movie. First off, we’re not sure why there is kafuffle anyway because come on, it’s Ant-Man for crissake, it’s not like we’re recasting Wolverine or anybody important, it’s just Ant-Man, whose superhero name is a punchline and […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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I should preface this story by explaining that my parents have always told me that I had a very vivid imagination as a child. They said I was always prone to flights of fancy and wild stories, even though I remember being a peculiarly practical child in my own way. Still, I’ve always figured they […]

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High Fidelity was in fact originally about boardgames. True story. Bruges. I usually hate Stefan Feld games because they are all recipes for getting victory points (he also put out Bora Bora this year, and that is a game where literally every single action, even passing, gives you points) and little else; they mostly seem […]

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