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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist, as is the latest edition of that thing I do with the making fun of commenters on the internets.

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I referred to the “battle around the world” sequence in Crisis On Infinite Earths last week and then a couple of people who hadn’t read it emailed me and asked me why it was so brilliant. Consider this the Cliffs Notes introduction, then. So, a bit of recap. Previously, the super-baddie Anti-Monitor tried to blow […]

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This is the interesting thing about Sunburst: other than one appearance in a Global Guardians backup story in a Superboy comic, he was a total nonentity in the DCU Universe. I mean, total nonentity: he’d even been hypnotized – at his own request – to become unaware of his superpowers. Possibly this was because whoever […]

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Prostitutes in New Orleans are being categorized as “sex offenders.” What the fucking fuck? I understand police wanting to cut down on prostitution; in a system where it’s not legal, it’s generally unsafe, and you want to disincentivize unsafe behaviour. (Of course, legalizing it would be simpler and safer all around, but God would get […]

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Has there ever been a news story as anticlimatic as the revelation that prisoner “suicides” at Guantanamo Bay were probably actually murders? Seriously, is anybody surprised by the idea that Guantanamo Bay had torturing going on at this point? The BBC had a guard tearfully request forgiveness from his former captives just last week, for […]

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22.) The Abominable Snowman Knows ASL

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Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro’s remarkable ability to use excess packaging on their primary gaming product – Magic: The Gathering – has gotten truly ridiculous in the last couple of years, and every new product just seems to get worse. My favorite until recently was this “premium deck” of foiled Slivers – take a look at […]

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Count Vertigo is one of those villains who I think has never really gotten his proper due. He’s kind of stuck in between the second and third tier of DC supervillains and should be higher. He started off with a decent powerset that’s pretty unique and a great costume (seriously, it’s exactly what a supervillain […]

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So for the last week or so the big stupid political hubbub of the week has been the fact that in a private conversation two years ago Harry Reid said that white people don’t generally want to vote for black people, and that lighter-skinned black people generally do better electorally with whites than dark-skinned people, […]

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Superman :: Uncle Scrooge as Lex Luthor :: ? Flintheart Glomgold or Magica DeSpell? I was considering this for a long time today because, well, nerd. And I’m not sure. There’s arguments for both.

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