Finally, something I feel remotely qualified to talk about! Over at the Comic Book Bin, Hervé St-Louis has exposed a cancer that’s been eating away at the comic book industry: creators who think more highly of themselves than St-Louis believes they should.

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Not too long ago, I jokingly argued in favour of politicians being killed before they reach their natural expiration date. It might not have been a particularly good joke–that was certainly the opinion of a number of commenters–but it was a joke. I’d hope anyone reading it would be able to divine the post’s humourous […]

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Is there any good reason why politicians who leave or are voted out of office shouldn’t be executed?

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…that fishermen have discovered a parasite that eats its host fish’s tongue and then lives in its mouth, living off the food the fish consumes? Gross, huh? I offer this interesting piece of trivia as evidence there are worse things you can put into peoples’ mouths than words. Having said that, can YOU tell who […]

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-In terms of tangible changes to actual comics produced, I suspect this is actually bigger news than Disney’s acquisition of Marvel, at least in the short term. I wonder how many DC editors are updating their resumes this afternoon… -Bugs Bunny could totally kick Mickey Mouse’s ass. Just saying. -Rob Liefeld isn’t young enough to […]

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What do Citizen Kane, The Matrix, and Meet the Spartans have in common? What do War & Peace, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and The Destroyer Volume 11: Kill or CURE have in common? What do Persepolis, Jack Staff, and Tyrese Gibson’s MAYHEM! have in common? I imagine the answer to the first two […]

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I almost fell out of my chair yesterday when I read that, while addressing a “free  market think tank,” US Representative and Joker impersonator Michele Bachmann said something I agreed with. Fortunately, she reverted to form, finishing the almost reasonable sentence with talk about becoming blood brothers, before really making with the crazy. My shaken […]

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Disney’s buying Marvel.

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(Scene: A DC Comics marketing department meeting room. Present are The Boss and Interchangeable Marketing and PR Executives #1-31 Larry, Gary, and J.D., three Marketing Executives who are wholly fleshed-out, multi-dimensional characters.) The Boss: OK boys, our assignment this week oughta be a cakewalk. It seems the boys upstairs are working on a big storyline […]

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Keenly aware as I am of the latest trends in the fascinating and frustrating world of political discourse in the United States, it’s dawned on me over the last week or two that I’m surrounded on all sides by Nazis.  Once you had to be a real asshole to be considered a Nazi. Now apparently […]

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I am a natural-born luddite. My mother fondly remembers me tossing my booties at her sewing machine as an infant.1 My irrational hatred and fear of technology is profound, but not without just cause. As far as I can tell, machines hate me right back, on a fundamental, and personal, level. Examples of this antipathy […]

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“In the early years of the 21st Century, America and the world reeled in horror in response to a vicious, unwarranted attack to some of the country’s most cherished institutions. I refer of course to Marvel Comics miniseries Ultimatum …”  – Introduction to the Jeph Loeb chapter of Lloyd DeGroot’s “They Really Mean It: America’s […]

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There was a time when a kid could walk into pretty much any North American drugstore or supermarket and find themselves exposed to a wide range of Top 21 Lists. The reasons for the current absence of Lists (Top 21 or otherwise) in such outlets are far too complicated, to say nothing of depressing, to […]

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Personally, I have only shallow thoughts on the American health care debate. Any attempt on my part to articulate a response to the notion that Paris Hilton could possibly deserve better health care than a factory farm-raised chicken, never mind an actual human being, immediately devolves into a scream of impotent fury. So here’s what […]

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From the Tuesday, August 11, 2009 edition of The Hollywood Reporter: Universal Studios has ticket to ride on “My Little Pony” “GI Joe” director Sommers to direct 2011 tentpole based on childhood toy with no noticeable storyline by Andrew Foley “2011 is going to be a great year for fans of gritty, action-packed films based […]

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