ComicsPundit

The never-ending conversation on life, liberty, and sequential art…

…with Shawn Levasseur.

Archive for July, 2005

The Merry Marvel Blogging Society: So Funny, It’s Uncanny!

Posted on July 27th, 2005 by Shawn L.

A flash based X-Men parody that’s skewers the idiosyncrasies of the team’s history hilariously.

“The following comic book takes place between June 7th and June 13th, 2006. All events are published in real time”..

Posted on July 27th, 2005 by Shawn L.

When I heard that DC Comic’s upcoming sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, was only going to be 7 issues, I was concerned that with todays slow pacing of comics stories (so it can all be put into a trade paperback collection later) that it was going to be a rather thin on […]

Flash back at the ID Scheme.

Posted on July 21st, 2005 by Shawn L.

The British government’s national ID card scheme is criticized in this musical Flash presentation.So queue up the Gilbert & Sullivan and have at ‘em!(via Sly of Your Mac Life)

Get your torch and tablet ready Libby, because:

Posted on July 19th, 2005 by Shawn L.

The third edition of the Carnival of Liberty is up.Here’s the first one, and Here’s the second one.For those who aren’t familiar with blog carnivals, they are usually weekly collections of links to blog posts from a variety of contributors, all about a common theme. It’s sort of an all-star game of blogging, with a […]

The Death of Free Speech, Parts 1 & 2

Posted on July 15th, 2005 by Shawn L.

It seems like more and more, that laws being passed to “clean up elections” or “protect children” are actually being used to silence political speech.Now some may say we have tons of free speech (Social Conservatives would say too much) because sex and violence are so widely available throughout every form of media. This ignores […]

Getting the rest of the story.

Posted on July 14th, 2005 by Shawn L.

Wired just published an article by Robert Andrews about David Allen, and his book on productivity methods, “Getting Things Done”.Neither Allen nor the other subjects are really complaining about the article (especially since the article is helping sell books and drive traffic to their blogs), but still felt the need to post up the full […]

Who was he, and what did he do?

Posted on July 11th, 2005 by Shawn L.

James Stockdale, former Admiral in the US Navy, former POW in Viet Nam, and former Vice-Presidential candidate (Perot’s running mate in 1992) died this past week. He is also the only non-Libertarian I have ever voted for Vice-President. Somewhere I have on tape the famous debate between Stockdale, Al Gore, and Dan Quayle. Popular opinion […]

It takes guts to steal food from 2nd Amendment supporters…

Posted on July 11th, 2005 by Shawn L.

Apparently the writers of the new movie “Wedding Crashers” had their own experience to draw upon:From LIFELONG FRIENDS WRITE A BUDDY PIC:“In college I interned one summer for Massachusetts congressman Ed Markey in Washington, D.C.,” Fisher says. “I had zero money and needed to eat, so I’d make up these fake name tags saying I […]

Warning: Calling someone a jerk on your weblog may be hazardous…

Posted on July 7th, 2005 by Shawn L.

Especially when that someone Fisks your post in the comments…Lesson: Don’t piss Shawn King off. To paraphrase one David Banner, you wouldn’t like him when he gets angry. And that takes a little bit of doing to make him lose his good humor (which is a good thing… He’s a prettty big guy.)I can get […]