Click on thumb to see full And so concludes Book Two – we are already 25 percent finished. (Or not, if I decide to eventually pace it to nine issues instead. Now I know how George R. R. Martin feels.) The entire second issue is now archived in the Al’Rashad page (button at right). Book […]

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Jun

Some thoughts on mutants and labour economics

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Economics

Ezra Klein argues that Professor X was wrong to dream of peace when the dream of “shared prosperity” would be stronger. I don’t entirely agree, because although prosperity doesn’t have to be zero-sum, the nature of mutant powers would place them frequently into competition with basic labour. Ezra rightly identifies that a power set like […]

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Jun

Apropos of nothing

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Dan Didio: “When we have a book about teenagers, we want it to feel like it’s a book about teenagers.” The average age of the writers working on the “teenager” books in the DCU reboot is 47.6. If you take away Sterling Gates on Hawk and Dove (which doesn’t seem to be a “teenager” book, […]

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Jun

Rebootylicious

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

NEW DC UNIVERSE #1: Wonder Woman PREMISE: Looks like it’s basically Wonder Woman, more or less NUMBER OF ISSUES BEFORE IT IS CANCELLED OR RELAUNCHED: 32 HOW REBOOTYLICIOUS? Reboot Hill NEW DC UNIVERSE #1: Aquaman PREMISE: “Geoff Johns made Green Lantern into a hot comics sensation! Surely he can do the same for Aquaman! Everybody […]

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Jun

Also: SPORTS

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. And since MasterChef is also on TONIGHT, that means me posting it here a day late barely affects you at all!

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Jun

Advice.

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Formal-E

Attention unit Formal-E: I have been reassigned to a new operations complex where I will create neutron stacks. Previously when creating neutron stacks, I used the widely known Z-23 neutron shifter. However, in my new operations complex, the QQX atomic slicer is the preferred tool for stack creation and deployment. Installing such an atomic slicer […]

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Jun

part two, page twenty-seven

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

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Jun

Single-Sentence Review of X-Men: First Class

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

If you can get past January Jones’ horrible Emma Frost, this is the best of the X-Men movies; if you can’t, it still is.

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Jun

Meanwhile, in the non-DC universe

Posted by MGK Published in Law, The Internets

I don’t typically mention the legal blog stuff I do here, but I think my discussion of the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in R. v. J.A. – the “you can’t consent in advance to sexual activity taken place while you sleep” case – would be of interest to my greater readership, so here […]

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Jun

What Isn’t Being Said About The DC Reboot

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Some points I think need to be made that aren’t generally being made. Same-day digital. It’s almost become a cliche for some nerds to say “oh you’re all talking about a reboot but same-day digital is what really matters here.” Yes and no. I’ve seen at least one news source say that the price point […]

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May