Thanks to Karen, I have fresh Archie to analyze today! First off, Gary and Gerald are obviously gay. I mean, look at them. They are flamboyant beefcakes! Compare them to Archie, your classic heterosexual stringbean, the bodily definition of a straight male in this comics world. Tack on Veronica’s belief that Gary and Gerald think […]

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I’ve seen the sentiment expressed elsewhere that Paul Levitz has been personally involved in attempting to keep the Siegel estate from collecting their share of Superman’s copyright. Let me say without even the slightest reservation that this is crap. Greg Morrow details how Levitz was personally involved in seeing that DC increased Siegel and Shuster’s […]

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That “hey, here are conservative chicks talking about dating” post is like kryptonite to boringness! Sadly, No! already beat me to making fun of Cassy “revenues are the new profits” Fiano, but the good news is that Karol Sheinin of Alarming News is ripe for funnin’! Here she is, talking about the Barack Obama race […]

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I’ve been getting sporadic emails for the last month, all along the same theme: “what are you gonna do for April Fools’ Day? I bet it’s gonna be wild.” And I have no idea how to say “nothing, really.” Because, come on. This is, by and large, a blog where I post theoretically amusing crap […]

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My weekly TV column is, as always, up at Torontoist.

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Okay. Look, I get that comics fans, if there is even the slightest hint of having their precious weekly comic flow interrupted, will throw a collective hissy, not unlike a three-year-old who has not yet gotten his juice. (Actually, this is unfair. Juice is a lot more important than comics are.) And I understand that […]

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The decision came down yesterday that the estate of Jerry Siegel has won the copyright to Superman – specifically, “all Superman material in Action Comics #1.” I’ve already seen in a few places people worrying about how this may BANKRUPT THE COMICS INDUSTRY BY SETTING A PRECEDENT!!!!one!!1! Or, more amusingly, the legion of retards commenting […]

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Bahlactus is the velvet hammer, soft yet rugged.

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Jon Stewart has been quietly visiting wounded troops at Walter Reed and Bethesda hospitals since 2004. Hands up, all those surprised?

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Okay, look. I understand that there are people out there who are paranoid about germs. I suppose if you’re going to be paranoid about something, germs are as good a thing as any to be paranoid about, so I try to look past this. And although I know that tissue paper does not, in fact, […]

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From comments yesterday: I just thought I’d bring forth this little piece of horror: “G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer. The property is […]

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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. FUN FACTS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT VIKING COMMANDO 1.) Honestly, why DC […]

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