Every time comics become a little more accepted in the overall zeitgeist, the more often I wonder if the medium’s traditional madness will be smoothed over. Most comic covers have already ditched exposition and teasers in favor of character poses and mid-fight snapshots.
Now this?

That’s a fucking cover. It’s a shame that the actual story [...]

I’m in Canada at the moment. Potent beer, quite a few occurences of “eh”, and a disturbing (for one born and raised in the desert of southern California) amount of greenery. Plants! Without having to steal water from other states. Imagine that.

Do you remember the random fact generators, particularly the Chuck Norris generator? The database was quickly overrun, the clever entries diluted into harmlessness by hundreds of “lol roundhouse” jokes, with the aftermath leaving Chuck Norris a regular commentator on World Net Daily. A few days ago e posted a tongue-in-cheek list of campaign [...]

There’s a greeting card kiosk across from the counter at work that I’ve had to see a lot of, and there’s one card in particular that’s beginning to bother me. (Well, two actually, but I don’t really want to write about a card that prominently features a crudely drawn asshole at the moment.) [...]

I found an interesting piece on a blog maintained by the Christian Science Monitor, dealing with the order of adjectives and adverbs, the unspoken ordering rules that dictate that one says “the broken red toy wagon” rather than “the toy red broken wagon.” It’s not an academic piece by any means, but it’s definitely [...]

On a whim I bought some salt and vinegar flavored potato chips. “They can’t be that bad,” I thought. “People eat these all the time.” I didn’t actually try them until later that evening. The first chip went in my mouth and, though initially tasty, left a strange and chemical aftertaste [...]

Inane self-help programs come and go with boring regularity, so I didn’t think anything of the most recent grist in the mill. What little I had seen convinced me that it was just the same old crap repackaged with some brazen DaVinci Code-esque packaging. I shrugged, went on with my life.
Yesterday I visited [...]