Everybody’s a fanboy about something
I don’t know why I did, but I clicked on a link to Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, from a Hit and Run post referring to (and with footage from Marc’s speaking engagement at the Cato Institute.The first thing I noted was that the title banner featured a pair of panels from Dave Sim’s Cerebus. […]
The comic book world’s #1 biblical literalist, Jack Chick, in his latest mini-comic, (reviewed here at Hit & Run) claims that dinosaurs and humans co-existed. And tries to explain their extinction with a combination of the “Noah’s Ark” story and a dubious theory that the air became “too thin” for them. (Hey Rocky, watch me […]
Germs taken into space return meaner than before - USATODAY.com: It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever.Except, it really happened.The germ: Salmonella, best known as a culprit of food poisoning.The trip: Space Shuttle STS-115, September 2006.The reason: Scientists […]
Glenn Reynolds (@ Chicago Law School Faculty Blog), talks about tribalism in online political discussion.So “polarization entrepreneurs” do try to stir up rivalry, and they often succeed. But because — as I mentioned below — politics are more fragmented than polarized, people can often find things to agree on across the Red/Blue divide. In fact, […]
Political bloggers, including the pictured Frank Castle er, Matthew Yglesias go to the gun range.Hmm maybe we could set up a shooting competition between the right-wing blogosphere, and indie comics publishers.(via Megan McArdle’s own post about this outing.)
I am intrigued by a recent book I caught the first issue of, “Black Summer” by Warren Ellis. Warren describes the premise of the book and the motives behind his writing it in this article.If we invite or condone masked adventurers to fight crime outside the law, do we get to draw a line where […]
Ned Beauman: Why won’t comics deal with terrorism?Part of the problem is the conflict itself. As with Vietnam, there is too much anxiety about the Iraq war’s aims and methods. No one wants to see Captain America take orders from Donald Rumsfeld and no one wants to see him accidentally bomb a wedding party.More importantly, […]
…or was it the other way around?Graphitti from the comic book “Fell” appears in real life.By the way, Fell is a good book. It shows a modern urban population in decay embracing superstition. It manages to avoid depicting supernatural events, merely showing how such superstitious thinking borne out of desperation affects the characters.It’s not your […]
…he usually kept his shooting to a firing range on his own property. Not on some random backwoods location where you hope not to be noticed.Apparently Gary Groth and the crew from Fantagraphics got noticed.Stupid.via Blog@Newsarama
The LondonTimes Online reports on a cartoon that depicts the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog which has led to…a statement purporting to be from al-Qaeda put a $100,000 (£50,000) bounty on the head of the cartoonist, Lars Vilks……Mr Vilks arrived back in Sweden from Germany yesterday and made light of the assassination […]
At Websnark, Eric Burns speculates that the Washington Post’s (along with other papers) act of pulling two Opus comic strips was not out of fear of offending people. He thinks it may be to gin up publicity for the strip.If so, it’s a bad move. Such acts of editorial cowardice bring into question the editorial […]
At Editor & Publisher: Many Won’t Run Next Two ‘Opus’ Strips With Sex Joke, Islam ReferenceThe sex joke is that Steve Dallas won’t be getting any, because his girlfriend is trying to become an islamist, and therefore will be refraining from pre-marital sex.What’s there to be offended about?I’ll single out the Washington Post in particular […]
I’ve never been one to blog about my pets. Catblogging is practically an internet cliche.But today I took my cat, “Number Six” (named after Patrick McGoohan’s character from The Prisoner), to the vets, as she’d been loosing a dramatic amount of weight. I was told that she had a tumor, and that before long she […]
Springboarding off the previously mentioned “tarring and feathering,” Instapundit.com looks at how similar acts have been used towards keeping the powerful in check.: Traditionally, Anglo-American political philosophy allowed for what Gordon Wood called ‘out of doors political activity’ — behavior that was extralegal, but not exactly unlawful, in response to overreaching by authorities. Pauline Maier’s […]