Questions about Minx, DC
Another newspaper, another favorable review of the Minx line (along with other comics):
The hip Minx series is consistently cranking out some of the sassiest, fun-to-read comics this year. The top-rate talents attached to...
Platinum teams with iTaggit
Platinum teams with iTaggit, an online indexing system for collectors, and the result is a press release of even greater than normal vagueness.
iTaggit, the leading social collecting and personal asset management service,...
Find He-Man
A few lifetimes ago when we were finishing reading HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, as we walked home from Madison Square Park, we spotted an odd sight for a Saturday afternoon: a rather...
“Thai cops punished by Hello Kitty”
Let's face, when you hear the word "Thailand" you think of a swinging anything goes kind of place, where the rules that other people have are pretty much left by the wayside. So what...
What huffers like for entertainment
Immigration Official TELLS IT LIKE IT IS to Tony Lee:
There was one concern while I was in customs - when asked why I was there, I explained that I was going to the San...
Homosexuality in Comics
CBR starts a comprehensive series by Emmett Furey:
Parts I and II will introduce the nine participants. Part I features Marc Andreyko, Lillian Diaz-Przbyl, Devin Grayson, Terrance Griep and Mark Millar, and part II introduces...
Oldsters don’t think it’s funny
A new study backs up the idea that older folks just don't think things are as funny as the whippersnappers:
It's no laughing matter: a new study suggests older adults have a harder time getting...
Male virgins rampant in Japan
According to one survey, almost 1 in 4 Japanese men between 30-34 is a virgin:
"There are 11 percent of people who gave an invalid answer to the survey and I bet you the vast...
We’re not just imagining these things, you know
Old Disney Rejection Letter via Boing Boing.
UPDATE: to those who thought this was not a form letter --- nope, it was SOP.
Fanthropology
Damn if that name hadn't already been taken for a blog we would so steal it! Anyhoo, our ongoing study of the state of Thunderbirds fandom was picked up by a site which asked...
Thunderbirds are STILL GO!
A few days ago we were fretting that THUNDERBIRD fandom might be dying out/. The evidence? An excessive number of Geocities pages and dead links in out quest for some vintage stills. Predictably, we...