Including liveblogging municipal debates for Torontoist.
7
Sep
Including liveblogging municipal debates for Torontoist.
7
Sep
Previously, we discussed how time travel works, or doesn’t work. Most time travel in comics follows the “create an alternate parallel universe in which you are then trapped” motif. There are reasons for this. If you are creating a time travel machine, you don’t want it killing you, and traveling to the past is the [...]
6
Sep
Your guest judges tonight are Blake and Melissa Williams, who is dubbed “the queen of new disco.” (As opposed to “the queen of taking themed jazz choreography and coming up with a new name for it,” I guess.) Amanda and Denys: “the dreaded quickstep.” Because apparently nobody is allowed to just call it “quickstep” any [...]
6
Sep
My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.
6
Sep
Of IDW’s recent Archie comics collections, Archie: The Daily Newspaper Comics 1946-1948 is by some distance the best. First, it’s a real collection; it has all the daily strips written and drawn by Archie creator Bob Montana (who mostly concentrated on the strip, rather than the comic books, until his death in 1975) from the [...]
6
Sep
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5
Sep
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ Is this irony Or sincere post-irony? So identical THE COEN BROTHERS Quirky film, dark film Quirk, dark, quirk, dark, quirk, dark, quirk Quirkdarkquirkdarkquirk JAMES CAMERON Lovely lucid dreams of immense complexity shaped by an asshole GEORGE LUCAS An old man believes He can recapture youth’s spark; Sadly, he is wrong STEVEN SPIELBERG Only [...]
4
Sep
Every time I hear about the latest college football recruiting/scheduling/conference-jumping/coach-changing/insert-scandal-here scandal, I always hear someone trying to excuse it by simply acknowledging what we all know. “Hey, it’s a business!” they say, as if to imply, “Only foolish and naive people actually believe that crap about ‘the purity of the student-athlete’, pal. That kind of [...]
2
Sep
Okay so you are going to a nerd place where the nerds are and you are thinking “right I need a costume.” Everybody understands this. If you are going to be in a giant roomful of nerds then clearly the thing to do is stand out, and you can’t do that by wearing a black [...]
1
Sep
A few whiles back I did a list of “reasons I will love comics forever,” which were mostly awesome panels. I haven’t had a lot of those lately; there just aren’t as many moments in comics these days that make me sit up and go “yeeeEEAAAAAAH!” I don’t know if it’s because they’ve changed or [...]
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