The DC: The New Frontier movie is honestly pretty bad. Weak voice acting (Neil Patrick Harris is good; everyone else is mostly not), generic-looking animation that looks more like warmed-over third degree Dini/Timm models than the gorgeous Darwyn Cooke pencils from the comic, and a superhero-heavy storyline (which removes a lot of the charm of […]

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With Hillary Clinton’s victories in Texas and Ohio yesterday, her campaign is trumpeting her “comeback.” Which of course takes a lot of hubris, considering Obama never led in Ohio at all and reduced thirty-point leads in both states to a less-than-ten-point decision in Ohio and a near-statistical tie in Texas’ primary (and a likely victory […]

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Now that I’ve gotten over my initial impulse regarding any death (respectful nothings and maybe a joke to briefly dismiss the lingering fear of one’s own mortality), I wanted to write a little more about Gary Gygax passing. When I was fifteen, I got kicked out of UTS, a private school in downtown Toronto. UTS […]

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Whichever it might be, hopefully Gary Gygax has found his way there.

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Years later, it only really becomes apparent how much of a genius Jim Henson really was, and this from someone who considered him a genius when he was still alive.

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FIVE KEANU REEVES PERFORMANCES WHICH ARE GENUINELY GOOD Keanu Reeves gets way more shit than he deserves, mostly because his acting talents tend to fall within a very specific subset, which he is called upon to exceed with depressing regularity. An early turn in Desperate Liaisons convinced a lot of producers that he was fodder […]

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My weely TV column is up, as usual, at Torontoist.

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I wanted to wrap up my exciting summary of Tintin In America with a flourish, but the problem with the book is that Herge’s plotting – such a strength of the series in the later books, when he neatly worked multiple subplots together into 64-page maxi-comics with ridiculous skill – here is total ass. Immediately […]

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Last year, it was bees – this year, it’s bats.

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You also don’t want to piss off someone with Bahlacti-speed.

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Hal Turner openly advocates the murder of Barack Obama and/or Hillary Clinton.

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And I know they will want to know how to make salad bowls out of bacon.

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Over at Torontoist. I feel the need to make a few points. I’m generally pro-respecting the military. It’s a tough job; it deserves respect. But in Canada, we generally do a pretty decent job of respecting the military (as indeed most Western cultures do). We give them excellent benefits (and I fully admit in the […]

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Way back when I was a young me, one of the first comics-related things I ever read was a hardcover compendium of Superman stories at the library. This was a genuinely great collection, filled with Golden, Silver and Bronze Age Superman stories, and readers were spoilt for choice of some of the best classic Big […]

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