I grew up at a rare time – when Star Trek: The Next Generation was airing new episodes. And it was a very, very cool show, not adored just by Trekkies/Trekkers/Trekkoes but by the general populace as well; more than anything, it was responsible for the eventual crossover success of sci-fi from the ghetto. This […]

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You kind of have to feel sorry for poor old Carcharo. Todd McFarlane and Roy Thomas wanted to tell a story about a villainous shark-man. But the problem with villainous shark-men is that there are already some people who have firmly claimed that niche as their own – Tiger Shark, Killer Shark, King Shark, the […]

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Did you follow the whole Michelle Malkin/Antonia Zerbisias drama over the last week? No? Then I have you covered over at Torontoist.

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I did a bunch of these a few months ago, but other than this one, the others all eventually coalesced around a single theme. So I’m tossing this one out on its own, like an orphan. (Yes, yes, I know, old meme. Nyah nyah nyah it’s fun.)

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So the American media has decided to get pre-emptively offended about the possibility that Obama might nominate a Supreme Court judge who is not white and male because it might be a good idea to have a judge on the Supreme Court who is not white and male. (Post-Redding v. Safford Unified School District I’m […]

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This Flash version of the 1988 “Aliens” official boardgame is near-perfect. I used to play that game all the time when I was in university. There was always time for another bug hunt.

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but I am in the mood for a “nerdiest sentence ever typed” competition. So I shall lead off: My Hogwarts homebrew expansion for “Settlers of Catan” needs tweaking. Beat that, nerds! EDIT TO ADD: I would like to thank Mark S. for making the first Dr. Strange joke within the first ten comments, thus allowing […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Top comment: Nemesis may fail as a Trek movie, but it is a complete success as a comedy. It is probably the best comedy I ever was surprised by. Captain Picard vs. his clone, played by Billy Corrigan! Good Data vs. Special Data! The Prime Directive is […]

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FLAPJACKS: Are you done with all your Dr. Strange crap yet? ME: Yes. Why? FLAPJACKS: Are you sure? I don’t want to have to hear about that giant space magic dragonfly thing again. ME: I’m sure. What do you want? FLAPJACKS: I want to use your computer to look at the new G.I. Joe trailer. […]

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Has announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, and a reader emailed me for reaction. My immediate reactions are twofold: 1.) Although it’s no surprise, because Souter is well-known for not particularly liking the DC culture and it’s been general scuttlebutt that he was tired of the Supreme Court five years ago but wasn’t willing […]

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Superboy fucking Prime is the Time Trapper now? Oh, Geoff Johns. Why you gotta make me hit you, Geoff Johns? Why you gotta make me do that? Top comment: Punching reality? That’s a paddling. Being revealed as the Time Trapper? You better believe that’s a paddling. — marvinmartian

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Pretty much from the start, emails and comments have appeared to the tune of “well this is all well and good but Dr. Strange isn’t the Sorcerer Supreme any more so everything you’re doing is meaningless.” And, as amusing as it is that people’s chief reason for dubbing this “meaningless” is that it does not […]

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(People just kept mentioning them and mentioning them over and over again, and I kept thinking, “man when I get to #29 they are going to accuse me of pandering or plagiarism or something like that.”) The Dire Wraiths hate you. It’s not personal. They hate everybody. But it also is personal because if they […]

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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DOCTOR STRANGE. 1.) He is polite. Not just because he routinely deals with impossibly powerful forces whom he does not want to offend (although that is certainly part of it); Stephen Strange is polite because at his core he is a man who has been humbled. He was an arrogant […]

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