Muir Island Research

R.I.P. Dr Moira MacTaggert

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Saving the world in style.

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The Liberal Party’s lawn signs really give Canada what it wants.

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Here’s a very long Milady de Winter/Crazy Town joke.

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Things are about to get Coyote Ugly!

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Here's the latest Dumb Surprise from Nobody's Business Theatre.

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Welcome to: If Male Superhero Costumes were Designed Like Female Superhero Costumes!

Aaaaa I dunno. I got tired of guys having no idea why girls find female superhero’s costumes kinda sexist, so I, um, made this?

My main goals were: 1) Make it so the first thing you think of when you look at them is sex, whether you want to or not. 2) make it so that any male human who looks at this feels really uncomfortable. 3) make it funny, because, well, it’s kinda hilarious really.

Not trying to start a war here, just wanted to poke a bit of fun.

So, here you go menfolk, welcome to being a girl who likes comics.

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This rules!

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Here's a weird video we made in thanks to all the people who've donated to our campaign so far. What campaign you say? WHY THIS ONE, OF COURSE!

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Here's an opera piece (about a certain Hipster Grifter) that I wrote the libretto for...

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Old British Ladies Weirdness, pt. 4

I like it when something ends in a kick-line. Know what I'm saying? I think you do.

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Old British Ladies Weirdness, pt. 3

It's the explosive arrival of Dame Judi Dench! With cleavage that means business!

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Old British Ladies Weirdness, pt. 2

Part two, gentle reader! X-Men shout-outs! A continued parody of the movie Sister Act, for no particular reason! But who is this "she" lurking just off-panel? I have a feeling we may find out in pt. 3! We just may!

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Old British Ladies Weirdness, pt. 1

Adam's birthday is just over a week away, but here's a Photoshop-coloured version of his birthday card from a couple years back. We've been watching Downton Abbey lately (I know, I know, it's the best), and I decided it was high time, no, not for High Tea, but high time to revive this Maggie Smith-vehicle of a birthday card for the internet and posterity. Obviously, this card assumes you are familiar with the film Sister Act. But you are, right?

P.S. Who is that getting killed, anyway? Bart Simpson?

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Mel Lastman was in an X-Men comic?

Weird, but true! OK, here's the story: X-Force was a kinda not-great 90s comic about Cyclops and Jean Grey's very old-looking son Cable and his friends. Sometime in the early 2000s, it totally changed and became this awesome comic by Mike Allred and Peter Milligan about a really self-interested, celebrity team of mutants who were more interested in partying like reality stars than saving the world. They also died a lot. It was enough of a thing that for a couple of issues in 2003, a weird floating green potato-like creature named Doop who happened to be a member of the bizarre team got his own spin-off with Wolverine. Honestly, it's too weird to be explained, but part of it involves a group of normal people turning pink and going crazy in Toronto. And one of those people is very clearly our own one-time mayor, Mel Lastman. It's a pretty good likeness in his classic "Noooobooooody!" pose, and they even threw in a little Citytv logo. More context after the jump...

Obviously, you had to also get the CN Tower in there, and (less obviously) an astronaut, a cowboy, some naked people, and an Inuit person. There's also a weird, chompy-mouthed face that I'm thinking is possibly a Terrance and Phillip homage?

In other bits of the series, you see: a version of College Street featuring Café Diplomatico, The Orbit Room, Lava Lounge, The Royal, and Dragon Lady Comics; a bit of Markham Street with Honest Ed's, Suspect Video, and The Beguiling; The Silver Dollar Room; an O Nosso Talho truck; The Brunswick House; The Stem and The Rivoli on Queen; and just a glimpse of the Cinesphere at Ontario Place.

Anyway, it caught me off-guard, but I was also delighted to see such a legit depiction of Toronto in an X-Men comic. Especially considering how Wolverine's home and native land usually comes off in the movies as a place entirely made up of snow, rough bars constructed out of scrap metal, and the logging industry.

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Hooray for men + dogs!

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My Dad's Birthday Card

So, I'm home for Christmas, as many of us are, and like many of us, it's given me a great chance to appreciate how awesome the birthday card I made for my Dad this year was. Seriously, I'm very proud of this...

The future is awesome!

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Coop on the beach? Merry Christmas to me!