A couple of recent reads today. First off, the Elephantmen hardcover, which is a really fantastic value ($24.99 USD for a remarkably fat-ass hardcover) and remarkably entertaining. The problem with approaching Elephantmen, from a reader’s perspective, is that the main story thus far has been told in the Hip Flask hardcovers, which, while gorgeous (some […]

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(SCENE: The Beguiling, in Toronto. I have entered to purchase a copy of the recently released The Order trade paperback – only $12.99 US, folks! Chris Butcher wanders up while I am looking for it.) BUTCHER: Mr. Bird. ME: Mr. Butcher. BUTCHER: I love that we’re cordial. ME: Likewise. BUTCHER: So what were you looking […]

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TORONTO (CP) – Local authorities were stunned today as an individual purporting to be a grown man voluntarily ate a bowl of Heinz Scooby-Doo tomato pasta meal this afternoon. The overgrown child, despite being 32 and clearly able to identify Heinz Scooby-Doo tomato pasta meal as something marketed to children not yet willing to eat […]

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I promise to try and cut down on the Youtube links for the next little while, because there’s been a lot of them lately. But this one was too good to pass up, considering I wrote it. Lawyerbear created by Kevin Church and made available for use under a Creative Commons license.) I would also […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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I know you think many of your favorite critically acclaimed comics are original works, but it is my sad duty to inform you that most of them are warmed-over replicas of passionately brilliant works from the Silver Age. It’s hard to accept that these creators have so callously and wholly avoided crediting their predecessors for […]

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Holy crap, this got long in a hurry. Behind a cut it goes.

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A map of the world by dominant social networking applications. Biggest surprise and yet-not-a-surprise: France’s favorite social network app is something made in France which pretty much nobody else uses.

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(It’s coming out on DVD this year. Not that I’m going to buy it, because I’m really not one of those people who buys old cartoon series on DVD purely for nostalgia value. But it makes me feel better knowing it’s available.)

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The Bush Administration has rightfully taken a lot of flak for being absolutely terrible at diplomacy, but via Mark Kleiman, one is reminded that it is very possible to be worse.

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WHY JUNO WILL WIN BEST PICTURE: Because it’s funny. Because it manages the difficult trick of being funny and serious and heartbreaking all at once, and sometimes simultaneously. Because Diablo Cody is a hot young talent and people want to reward her. Because it’s a comedy and comedies tend to pick up undecided Academy voters […]

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Yesterday, from comments: Why are they hanging the dog? In response, I present two panels from The Cigars of the Pharaoh: The answer is, of course, that people in the Tintinverse just really fucking hate Snowy.

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Sherlock Holmes does not get enough movie love, these days. I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point Sherlock Holmes, one of the most fantastically cinematic characters there is, got relegated to television. The lengthy Jeremy Brett series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes likely had something to do with it, simply because it […]

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