Of course it's silly. There's nothing I can express in a new venue that I can't express here, and it of course means I'll have to train everyone to go to somewhere new, but nearly 200 people have looked at my blogger profile, which seems like a lot, and I don't even have anything up there. Or didn't, rather. At any rate, I'm starting up a new web ( Read more... )

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Who's cooler? Batman or Superman? Like I said yesterday, comics scribe Grant Morrison has some ideas. Since I find myself frequently incapable of writing about things that I love, I'll leave it to Grant.

Batman is obviously much cooler, but that’s because he’s a very energetic and adolescent fantasy character: a handsome billionaire playboy in ( Read more... )

Since I am dedicated to amusing myself with the Superman/Batman rivalry in all its forms, I bring you this:


See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.Okay, not so much bring as embed in my webpage. But you get the idea. Tomorrow I'll post snippets from an interview with Grant Morrison, writer of easily the best Superman comic in the ( Read more... )

Captain Robert April is not responsible for assigning an ice cream flavor to your sexual preference.

Captain Robert April just got friended by a girl he had a crush on ten years ago. The resultant email conversation contained more words than they exchanged during the period in question.

Captain Robert April has changed his religious preference to ( Read more... )

Most everybody has seen the George Washington internet cartoon. Well, its creator, comic frikkin' genius Brad Neely crafted a sort-of What's up, Tigerlily?/MST3K reimagining of the first Harry Potter film. It is unbelievably hilarious. Now I haven't read the HP books (I have seen the movies and they are pretty good), but his rendition of Harry and ( Read more... )

You know you've had a long day and the heat is creeping in to your brain, playing games with you, when you realize that the no shirt/no shoes: no service rule that applies in convenience stores, if rigidly enforced, meant that Hawkman can't get a blue raspberry slushie at his local 711.


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On this day in 1926, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortensen in Los Angeles. She died before her time, and perhaps due to that, she transcended herself, and became the stuff of posters and retrospectives, references and parodies and pop culture ephemera. And it makes me sad. I'd go more into it, but in a few minutes it won't be her birthday ( Read more... )

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The future of Heavy Metal:

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