So recently John Byrne did a one-off “my version” drawing of Dr. Doom in response to the now-infamous Brian Michael Bendis “bad dialogue” Doom panel from Mighty Avengers #11. Well, let no man say I don’t give them equal treatment.

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I might have mentioned this one before in passing, but since today is my Property exam I’m going to cheat a bit and use it. There was a bit of a minor fan kerfuffle (nothing along the lines of the recent “that’s not how Dr. Doom talks” kerfuffle, you understand – this is the piddling, […]

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Federally funded scientists created fertilizer from human and industrial waste and tested it in poor black neighborhoods without informing residents of the potential risks. Key sentence: “However, there has been a paucity of research into the possible harmful effects of heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, other chemicals, and disease-causing microorganisms often found in sludge.”

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Of course it has Brainiac Five in it. This is not a coincidence!

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There is a LOLcat translation of the Bible in progress.

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A photographic essay about a woman who makes her living sewing ceremonial robes for members of the Ku Klux Klan. The comments are predictably full of “she should get raped by a bear because she is racist” type stuff and can basically be ignored. For my part, I just felt tremendously sorry for her. She’s […]

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Jim Flaherty, the Finance Minister for the Canadian federal government, came to visit Osgoode Hall yesterday (it turns out my law school is his alma mater, which I did not previously know). I went, because if you have the chance to ask questions of who is (not officially, but for all intents and purposes) the […]

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I’m appealing to you – yes, you, the readers! – to answer a simple question: what, if anything, would you consider yourself to be relatively expert in? I’m not looking for post-doctorate study here or anything. I’m just curious to know what my readership knows a lot about, mostly because there are lots of things […]

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Every Thursday, mightygodking.com returns to the pages of Who’s Who, the classic 1980s DC comic book encyclopedia of their characters. Every week, a character shall be judged on the only scale scientific enough that matters: the Rex The Wonder Dog scale of fantasticosity. Okay, Stalnoivolk is pretty cool. Why? Because he is a super-powered Stalin […]

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The clip autoloads, so I’m putting it behind a cut.

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Back in the mid-90s, Marvel had what I thought was the very clever practice of printing on the inside front cover of every issue of every ongoing comic a mini-introduction to the comic – quick blurbs for each of the cast, a short synopsis of what was currently going on in the comic, what happened […]

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Recently the internet has gotten in a tizzle over Brian Michael Bendis’ dialogue for Dr. Doom in Mighty Avengers. Like so: Now, admittedly, this is pretty mediocre dialogue for Dr. Doom, but come on. I think we need to be reminded of what really bad Dr. Doom dialogue is.

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