Conundrum, 1994, Steve Lyons
One of the more surreal Doctor Who novels (but not actually the most surreal one), Conundrum is a hard-book to easily summarize. The TARDIS crew find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery in a quaint English village…beset by vampires…with a rampaging super-villain on the loose. Because it seems the whoever has been changing the past has managed to recreate the Land of Fiction, and now the Doctor, Ace and Benny are trapped in a meta-fictional nightmare created by, well, a rather spot-on parody of an angry young nerd who confuses death and violence with “maturity” and “realism.”
It’s utterly brilliant stuff.

One day, I’ll find a Golden Age gag strip that’s actually funny…

Today’s not that day.

Sadly, Fluffy did not survive the shock of hearing a doll talk.

Note the gas station attendant, knocked insensible by the lack of an actual joke in the punch-line…

“You’ve been spending a lot of time staking out that club on 57th lately, Billy? What’s the name? The Ramrod?”
“I’m working on a case Mary!”
“Every night for six months?”

“Speaking of Inalienable Rights, Amy…”, 1976, 1978 edition, G.B. Trudeau
Happy Fourth of July!

Star Wars: Invasion #3 has what appears to be the first appearance of the posing strap in a Star Wars comic.
Now watch someone link me to the Wookiepedia article about Mandalorian Battle Jock-Straps…

Dark Horse is also selling a Bettie Page coffee mug with disappearing bra action. Oh, straight people…

The closest I’ve ever come to hearing a Fallout Boy song is seeing Pete Wentz’s dick on the internet. Finding out that their songs are about stacked female robots doesn’t make me any more likely to buy an album.

Seriously, this shit is just getting pathetic.

Image has a book coming out called Tiffany’s Epiphany, which appears to be about why we should empathize with bullies because they’re “lonely.” With that kind of deep insight into the psychology of bullying I look forward to the future volumes that explain why picking on the sissy bunnies who aren’t good at sports is okay, because if they didn’t want to be picked on they’d learn to act normal.

They’re outing Millie’s Rival, Chili?

You so rarely see the cleavage-window costume on male characters…

Cutting to the chase, Digital Manga Presents is publishing a comic simply called Boys Love.

I’ve got no interest in fake Tarzan Ka-Zar, but that’s a nice sculpt.

I’m really surprised that Topps is doing gay-porn trading cards.
Hmm? Pro-wrestling? Not gay-porn?
There’s a difference?

Oh, look, it’s an action figure of the character that was outed on a spin-off online series to answer complaints about yet another sci-fi show that had no gay men in the future who was later revealed to be a traitor because, come on, do you honestly think you’re going to see a heroic gay character on an American sci-fi show?

So, I was informed that the latest Previews featured “bear” costumes.

This only goes up to size XL. The manufacturers are apparently unaware that bears will buy any piece of crap with the word “bear” on it. Missed opportunity.

And now, What the Hell is Wrong with Straight Men?

Real women photo-shopped to look like cat-girls, who are famous for appearing in porn parodies of The Brady Bunch. Seriously, guys, what’s up with that?

What with the constantly having to fight off Indians and bandits, no wonder my magazines always arrive creased.