Joel Minty

Joel Minty is a man of many funny lists if only he could find time for the source material. As such, his articles are mostly vague memories of the '90s mixed with a fervent love of Nintendos, real-time strategy games, and Futurama. He was the host of You Guessed It! You Can't Unguess It! Futurama Trivia for two years in Toronto, where he was voted "Most Likely to be the Only Person to Host Two Years of Futurama Trivia" – a trophy he covets. Recently Joel has scored a three-book publishing deal with Realmwalker Publishing Group to produce his Imbalance epic fantasy novels. Purge of Ashes, Book One of the Imbalance, will be/was released on April 5, 2016.

Articles by Joel Minty:


  • Disenchantment
    August 14, 2018
    Disenchantment Review

    Matt Groening’s new animated Netflix series Disenchantment will feel satisfyingly familiar for fans of Futurama and The Simpsons , but the fantasy comedy risks becoming a drinking game of avoiding Thrones .

  • Simpsorama - Homer and Bender
    November 10, 2014
    Let’s Hug it Out, Simpsorama

    The Simpsons-Futurama crossover episode aired last night, to the joy and dismay of many. A look at what worked and what didn’t.

  • June 27, 2012
    Futurama Season 7: Not Sure if New Episode or an Old Favourite

    Let me preface this article by stating that I am going to be discussing something which I see as a worrisome problem with recent Futurama episodes. This is coming from a major Futurama fan and current host of the You Guessed It! You Can’t Unguess It! Futurama Trivia night at the Gladstone Hotel, so it should be viewed as constructive criticism.

  • Hanna - Saoirse Ronan - Featured
    April 10, 2011
    Hanna Review

    Hanna is about a young girl being raised by her father in a log cabin in the sub-arctic. But as you might guess, this eponymous girl is unique: she is being trained as an assassin. Too often movies try to be more than they are – to impress with such intensity as to send them over the top – but Hanna is content to be a little piece of something elegant.

  • June 23, 2010
    Futurama II: The Wrath of Kif

    So it’s old news that Futurama has been brought back from the dead and has new episodes on the way featuring the entire original cast , but what many people might not know is one critical detail: it’s back on the air this Thursday, June 24 at 10 p.m. EST on Comedy Central. That’s soon. […]

  • January 7, 2010
    Top Ten Characters From 20 Years of The Simpsons: Part Two

    Before the holidays I embarked on the perilous journey of choosing the ten ‘greatest’ Simpsons characters from the show’s last 20 years, not including the principle family itself. Check selections 10 through 6 out here . A perfectly cromulent list thus far, if I do say so myself. The final five are even harder to […]

  • December 23, 2009
    Top Ten Characters from 20 Years of The Simpsons: Part One

    With The Simpsons’ 20-year anniversary having been on December 18 th , you would think that I would make two top 10 lists, but alas my list formats were made to be followed and ten is still a perfectly cromulent number. After all, being 20 years old isn’t what makes The Simpsons great, its many […]

  • November 19, 2009
    New Super Mario Bros. Wii Review

    Don’t let ME to tell you kids what to like, with your Robert Pattinsons, your iTwitp3pods, and your rock ‘n’ roll noise music, but years before New Super Mario Bros. Wii there was a game called Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo. Now that you’re up to date on decades of fiddling with a Super […]

  • October 19, 2009
    10 Jobs For Master Chief Upon Retirement

    Come on, Chief, quit playing Halo and go get a retiree job. 10. Master Chef: Besides the obvious benefits of being able to merely scratch out the i in his identification, after years of singeing and scorching aliens, I’m sure MC has a nose for quality when it comes to cooked meat. And who wouldn’t […]

  • August 1, 2009
    Futurama is Back, Baby

    YOU READ IT. YOU CAN’T UNREAD IT. The cast of Futurama has officially re-signed for a new 26 episode season. I came across this recent development through my friend Rob Salem , the Toronto Star’s TV critic and my former professor. As expected , the talks have quickly (though not without trepidation, methinks) come to […]

  • July 24, 2009
    Futurama IV: A New Hope

    When it comes to Futurama junkies, I can out-bend most. At the risk of sounding like a total dork, a risk I am all too willing to take, I am currently ranked 4th out of 66483 people at Futurama trivia on Facebook. Suffice to say I have a keen interest in the latest news coming […]