If you are in a hurry, here is the succinct version of this review: Going Rogue is shit. It is groundbreaking in its banality and disregard for facts. If you are sentient, it will pain you to read it. Imagine watching your parents 69 one another while John Madden sits behind you and bellows out color commentary and you will have some idea of how excruciating and profoundly scarring it is to plow through each page of this wholly fictional monument to self-aggrandized mediocrity. Going Rogue is to the art of writing what the Holocaust is to the concept of a just God – the piece of disconfirming evidence so overwhelming that we are left questioning whether it can exist at all.
I'm currently providing cartoons for Christopher Bird's 'Televisualist' column at Torontoist. David Topping asked me earlier in the year if I'd contribute to the site and after a bunch of false starts on a bunch of ideas I settled into doing the tv pix, which are a lot of fun. I'm hoping that someday I'll be asked to do a Josh Errett cartoon ... dare to dream, but I know that day will come!
So, here's a selection of some recent pics. First, fresh from today, it's Battle of the Blades:
You're worried about H1N1 but what you should really be worried about is the plague of American Idol-inspired cheeseball a cappella music that's infested every corner of pop culture. It is to music what aspic is to food.
After that, will you ever be able to enjoy the last episode of The Sopranos again?