Jeffrey Brown’s Darth Vader and son covers
Back when we interviewed Jeffrey Brown about his movie at Sundance, he mentioned an upcoming humor book called Darth Vader and Son that features gentle humor on the topic of Darth as dad to Luke.
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Warren Ellis and Sam Henderson on Monkeys or man on the moon
Recently, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich declared his support for the idea of a moon colony. Even more recently, he was roundly mocked for this even thoughmanned space flight is one of the glories of American history. Wired asked space enthusiast Warren Elliswhat he thought of the plan:
Continue ReadingThe Walking Dead opening credits as cheesy ’80s sitcom
The internet FTW once again.
Continue ReadingManga Steve Jobs is a woman
Chocolate Apple 1991-2011, a manga released at the just passed amateur manga show Comiket -- which drew some 500,000 people -- presents the author's heartfelt appreciation of the late Steve Jobs and his creations, while portraying Jobs as a cute Japanese girl.
Continue ReadingHanawalt draws worldwide gas
A book on farts illustrated by Lisa Hanawalt, with an attached soundboard? Where do I sign up?
Continue ReadingYes yes: Don Cheadle’s Captain Planet is the funniest thing today
Via Funny or Die, the ecological wonderland of '80s TBS is recalled.
Continue ReadingIs Robin an idiot?
Chris Illuminati at TheFW marshals the evidence, and it is quite compelling.
Continue ReadingFunny X-Men sex videos
You've probably already thought of most of these, but Funny or Die has put them all in one place.
Continue ReadingFirst look at the entire, new, high-collared JLA
The complete image of the new Johns-Lee rebooted JLA has surfaced (apparently at IGN) and it's clear that we have a "Big Seven" of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg. Most of the new costumes involved higher collars. Superman has a new logo and no trunks over his tights. There are lots of other details, but when we mentioned earlier that these characters looked about the same we meant it -- these are tweaks on the traditional (Super Friends, licensing) looks for these characters, not huge changes.
Continue ReadingGeek Girls: How quickly things change
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Given all the talk of late about geek girls, this Onion story from 2004 seems pretty dated: Osley attended the convention from Friday to Sunday, freely and confidently mingling with the 85 percent male crowd at the Hilton Burbank Airport and Convention Center. “From the moment she walked in the door, Paulette was [...]
Continue ReadingHow superheroes protect their junk
NY Mag's Vulture blog goes where no man had dared: How Vulnerable Are Superheroes’ Crotches? A Vulture Investigation, providing a detailed look at how the Magnuttos have been protected in various superhero films. Some -- Night Owl, Thor -- keep everything in one iron-clad package, but others -- Spider-Man, Green Hornet -- just leave the family jewels sitting out there. Tsk tsk tsk.
Continue ReadingThe secret origin of Jay Didillo as explained by Rob Granito
Famed comic book spoofer Rob Granito to has finally answered some direct questions, and didn't get paid to do so, which is awesome. . But the origin of such things as Jay Didillo, Granito's non-existent collaborator on a non-existent DC book, is strangely prosaic:
Continue ReadingAmazing, Beautiful, Amazing: Who will win American Idol???
This is so not comics, but the Final Three go at it tonight and we'd been saving up some notes. We started watching American Idol a few years ago because we felt the need to pay attention to a least one thing that wasn't nerdy but instead reflected the more mundane and/or inane side of culture -- something universal, just so when we had to hang out with normal people we wouldn't be entirely defenseless. Plus former judges Simon and Kara talked about music a little and it was interesting. But that was then. This season's judges, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez excel at nothing but praise, blather and administering something called the "amazing" scale:
Continue ReadingPrepress Hulk tells puny amateur designers where it’s at
There are many Hulks on Twitter -- feministhulk, DRUNKHULK, and HIPSTERHULK -- but it is only PREPRESS HULK, who rampages into uncontrolled rages when faced with a improper PANTONE number or lo-rez file, that is a hero in the production world.
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