I was going to make fun of Michael Lynch’s incredibly witless op-ed in the New York Times which boiled down to “despite the fact that absolutely everybody in the world says that peak oil is either upon us or nearly so, they are all wrong and in fact the entire world is made of oil, […]

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Competition begins! Your judges are Jean-Marc, Tre, and Blake and Luther before Blake and Luther go off to be choreographers rather than judges. Tre says this is the best top 20 ever, which considering this is second season is not that big a deal; then Jean-Marc ups the ante by saying this is the best […]

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Although anybody familiar with the Golden Age adventure of Superman – where he frequently took on union-busters and corporate profiteers – will be surprised, here is proof that Superman supports socialist programs and government-run health care.

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Entertaining three-hour diversion that seems shorter than it really is, has much, much less action than you would have expected, and once and for all answers the question of “is there anything Eli Roth hates more than women?” with “why, yes: Nazis.”

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New Jersey judge takes away child from adoptive parents because the parents do not believe in God. Well, okay, so it happened in 1970. Teach me to be knee-jerk.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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(Man, that is an acronym right there. Anyway.) I have much higher hopes for the Canadian top 20 this year than I did for America’s season 5 top 20. Partially this is because I am biased and Canada is awesome sauce. But more importantly, it’s because this Canadian top 20 is much more balanced in […]

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LIKED – The Web is the first of JMS’ “Red Circle” comics that I’ve actually really enjoyed. This is not to say that Hangman and Inferno were bad comics; they were competently made bland ones, featuring Yet Another Spectre and a kinda boring guy-who-transforms-into-another-guy-who’s-on-fire. The Web actually has a pretty good hook, though, in that […]

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Globetrotter XL.

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Any cartoonists/illustrators with a facility for cariacature interested in working on a small side-project (non-comic-related) with the promise of precisely zero compensation – email me and we’ll talk.

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Following up on “the Mike Huckabee” (be genial and friendly, present absolutely psychotic ideas as reasonable, and be polite to people you slandered last week) and “the Bill Kristol” (endlessly assert the moral superiority of the military over the general public in all instances regardless of circumstance or relevance), I believe we can now add […]

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