Uhm, at least The Comedian looks okay. Ish.

The earliest known “LOL-animal”:

“Saucy” post-card:

Blame Bully

I did this:

Dave did this:

Bully did this:

You used this:

Since people seem to be in a mood to analyse Marvel lately: the only “mainstream” Marvel U “post Civil War” comics I was getting were New New Warriors and New Order (which is a cheap and easy joke, but hey, so’s your Mom). And I’m not getting them anymore. They’re perfectly serviceable comics, but I’m just not interested in this “going nowhere slowly” between crossovers approach so many of Marvel’s titles seem to have. Now there’s nothing wrong with going nowhere slowly, but it’s so much better to be going nowhere fast, you know?

I’m also not particularly interested in the current state of the Marvel universe. DC, for all it’s flaws, has managed to hold my interest, and that’s partly because the heroes still act like good guys and the villains are clearly identifiable as bad guys. You can’t quite make those distinctions at Marvel anymore. And it doesn’t help that the consequences of Marvel’s big events don’t really get dealt with because the stage has to be cleared for the next big event. Say what you will about Countdown and its cross-overs, but you can’t really argue that DC isn’t thoroughly exploring the consequences of the last few event titles in those books. At Marvel they almost seem to be burying the problems created by their events under the weight of new events. “Oh, we made Iron Man a fascist, but we can’t deal with that now, the Hulk’s attacking. Ooops, we made the Hulk a mass-murderer, but we can’t deal with that now, the Skrulls are invading. Ah, we’ve established that Wolverine is actually a hyper-evolved stoat and not a mutant, but we can’t deal with that now because Namor has the Serpent Crown and is trying to flood the surface world…”

Say you’re an American publisher. And say you have the rights to publish, in America, newer and older licensed comics that are successful outside the US, but haven’t really sold well in the US for a couple of decades.
And say that, about ten to fifteen years ago, there was an animated series based on the comics you have a license to. An animated series that did several loose adaptations of some of the better known comics in the series. And let’s say that the animated series in question was very successful and is largely credited with revitalizing an area of the animation industry that had become moribund.
It would seem like a no-brainer to do a book collecting the best stories that inspired the series, and to slap the logo of the series all over the book, right?
So why would you go and put an introduction in the book that spends a good deal of time blasting the quality of the show?

Which is what Gemstone did with their Carl Barks’ Greatest Ducktales Stories books.
Oh, comics industry…you so stupid…

Stephen Sadowski’s pencils for Superpowers #0 are very nice, but with him only drawing the preview book, I’m not sure I’m interested. I REALLY did not like Justice, and the “nostalgia for grandpa’s childhood” vibe is strong on this project.
Which means I’m probably holding out for Avengers/Invaders. YES! I’m a hypocrite! I complain about Marvel than look forward to one of their projects!

You know what’s fun? Video games.

It’s like a virtual pet, only it’s Daffy Duck, and the idea is to torture him as much as possible.

It’s an old-school “point and click” puzzle game, only on your console. And since it’s on the Wii, you have to mime out using the object with the remote. It makes you look like a complete tool, so I recommend playing with the blinds drawn.

Lars and the Real Girl was an excellent, excellent film, very sweet and heartfelt, with just enough sadness and darkness underneath it to give it some real emotional heft.

I now realise that the problem with yesterday’s post was that I held back all the fun for myself…
Here you can write your own caption for Dennis.
And here you can write all your own dialog.
If you’re a stickler for lettering accuracy, I find “Jester” approximates Ketcham-style letters decently.

Though, try as I might, I can’t make this into a wholesome scene:

Context? Uhm, to be honest, it doesn’t help…

Taking panels out of context? So last year.
All the hip kids are putting panels into new contexts via dialogue swaps:

You know, I never have this problem with my Ravages. Or my Bumblebees. Of course, my Bumblebees teamed up to kick the crap out of Goldbug, so…

And, naturally, everyone hates Hot Rod.