Gaiman bee mishap
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Here in this very blog, people were complaining the other day that Neil Gaiman always wears the same leather jacket. Well that is not ALWAYS the case, as this bee blog explains, going so far as to post a picture of Gaiman in a white beekeeping suit! That’s Neil failing to [...]
Continue ReadingA bug's life
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In a scene out of a biblical epic or perhaps crazed supervillain attack, the bugs descended last night on Cleveland’s Jacobs field during the playoff game between the Yankees and Indians. The bugs are apparently called “Canadian Soldiers.” Cleveland won the game in extra innings. posted by Mark Coale
Continue ReadingItalian thinks Spider-Man is real
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAn Italian scientist has come up with an idea for a Spider-Man like climbing suit. The suit would use the sticky million-hair technology employed by geckos and…SPIDERS. It is generally accepted that the microscopic hairs adhere to the surfaces, not by gripping in the traditional sense, but by using intermolecular phenomena [...]
Continue ReadingCartoonists doing things: Sakai in France
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Stan Sakai attends the Japan Expo in Paris and gives the kind of travel report only a very seasoned traveler could produce — lots of good info here! Also, the nugget that he’s writing a Hulk story for Marvel. WOOT! I have 12 books in France–16 if you count the four original [...]
Continue ReadingMucho mucho linkage
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Mike Baron tells us his blog “World of Mike Baron” is back up for real, just in time for the release of a new NEXUS ! § ComiPress offers a detailed look at the history of plagiarism in Manga. § At Seven Hells, Crotchgate is revisited, but we see Alex Ross’s Citizen [...]
Continue ReadingZombie giant squid assaults Tasmania!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetActually it appears to be quite dead: A giant squid has washed up near Strahan on Tasmania’s west coast. The squid, measuring about six metres long, was found last night on Ocean Beach by a member of the public. Zoology experts from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery are hoping to examine the squid [...]
Continue ReadingAnimal fight!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re spending a little time chilling by the pool*, and sifting through all the pr that’s come through over the last week or so. Still working on a few more essays but that will be when we are a bit more mentally recovered. * ALERT! METAPHORICAL USE ONLY! NO actual pool lounging [...]
Continue ReadingAnd the tits just keep coming
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBoy oh boy, you’d think I’d planned the timing of my look at women and comics to coincide with the solicitations, which, unbidden, contain such things as these: Just another day at the office. Business as usual. Moving on. I should note that I actually like Adam Hughes’ covers for CATWOMAN — [...]
Continue ReadingPeter Parker visits Spider Exhibit!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Sorry we had to break off in the middle of the posting this morning, but we had to dash off to the American Museum of Natural History where a Spider-Man Week event was taking place, as star Tobey Maguire had to fight off a horde of radioactive spiders! No not really, but [...]
Continue ReadingMarv Wolfman, Wilderness Adventurer
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet AND…Marv Wolfman’s Wild Kingdom!
Continue ReadingWhat shall we feed the cat?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDelayed posting today as we’re off trying to gather food for our beloved Inky — we’re just terrified to feed her any wet food these days. We were feeding her ‘human tuna’ for a while until someone reminded us that you can’t eat too much tuna because of the mercury levels. [...]
Continue ReadingThis is for you, Warren Ellis
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Because the world needs more videos of otters floating around holding hands. [Via Cute Overload]
Continue ReadingGrand Canyon infested with albino millipedes
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA new race of albino millipedes has been discovered living in the Grand Canyon. Two albino millipedes have come out of their cavernous hiding places to represent an entirely new genus of these leggy organisms. Scientists spotted the millipedes in caves on opposite sides of the Grand Canyon. One species was found in [...]
Continue ReadingNoble kraken perishes in heroic struggle
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet His team snared the animal using a line baited with small squid and shot video of the russet-colored giant as it was hauled to the surface. The squid, a young female, “put up quite a fight” as the team attempted to bring it aboard, Kudobera told the Associated Press, and the animal [...]
Continue ReadingOh, the Huge Manatee
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Regular readers know we have always been manatee-friendly here at The Beat. These peaceful, lovable behemoths of the seas may lack cutes, but they make up for it in sheer can-do spirit as earth’s most unlikely sea mammals. Although thought of as an ocean-going beast, manatees actually favor drifting [...]
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