I was talking with Ty Templeton earlier in the week and he explained to me that (while we were talking about gender roles in fiction) he had had real trouble coming up with a list of female protagonists who when introduced were not defined by an element of suffering or hardship. Every female romantic comedy […]

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Dec

Fifty Improvements of Archie

Posted by MGK Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Comics, Interactive Fun Time Party

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2

Dec

Fa la la la la, la la la mob

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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2

Dec

interlude, page seven

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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28

Nov

Weapons-grade stupid

Posted by MGK Published in WTF

…looks like this: nearly seven thousand words dedicated to the principle that MENS IS MENS AND WOMENS IS WOMENS AND NE’ER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET. Oh wait, did I say seven thousand words? Because I actually meant ten thousand – no, wait, thirteen – oh my god we’re at eighteen now and apparently it turns […]

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25

Nov

LADY GAGA AND THE MUPPETS

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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25

Nov

interlude, page six

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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19

Nov

Stealth in armageddon

Posted by MGK Published in Gaming

I was chatting with David Uzumeri on Twitter recently about Bioshock on account of we were both playing the new DLC campaign for Bioshock Infinite, and I said I wished that all of the Bioshock games were, in fact, stealth games like Thief or even Dishonored (which is sort of a stealth-action first-person shooter). This […]

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Nov