RAMIFICATIONS OF DISNEY BUYING MARVEL – Storm now officially a “Disney Princess.” – Northstar not de-gayified, but just once again shuffled off into the Gay Corner, where the gays live. Nobody discusses the Gay Corner. Ever. They are there, because Disney is inclusive of all peoples. We just don’t talk about them. – All people […]

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Disney’s buying Marvel.

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FLAPJACKS: Man, I never knew there was so much shit I didn’t want. ME: Really. FLAPJACKS: I assume I wanted most shit. But I don’t want any of this shit. I came here to spend hard-earned money and look at this crap. Who the fuck wants GI Joe Minimates? ME: People who like GI Joe, […]

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(Scene: A DC Comics marketing department meeting room. Present are The Boss and Interchangeable Marketing and PR Executives #1-31 Larry, Gary, and J.D., three Marketing Executives who are wholly fleshed-out, multi-dimensional characters.) The Boss: OK boys, our assignment this week oughta be a cakewalk. It seems the boys upstairs are working on a big storyline […]

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1.) The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan has been ousted in the most recent election. The LDP has been in power almost continuously since 1955 – and really, longer than that, since the Liberal Democratic party formed out of the Liberal and Democratic parties making their unofficial collusion/cooperation in running the country official, so basically […]

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A long time ago, P.J. O’Rourke wrote in Parliament of Whores (probably the best book he ever wrote, and it’s been mostly downhill, albeit gradually, for him ever since) that “you can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.” And this has, for many policymakers, been an accepted truth for a very long time. […]

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I don’t know if anyone but me reads comic strips anymore, but here are my thoughts on a few I follow: Pooch Café: Bill Watterson once called Pogo “the last of the enjoy the ride strips,” by which he meant that while it often had continuing storylines, the point wasn’t to get to the end […]

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More people emailed about health care, mostly because of Ted Kennedy dying, and what I think is that Ted Kennedy’s death will matter not one whit in the final accounting as to whether or not health care reform passes in the United States. The Republicans trying to kill reform may have liked Kennedy personally, but […]

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Justin Newberry, in comments here, says something that people have been emailing me about for days now: I may have missed something, so pardon me if I’m coming from the wrong place here, but: You do know that Marlon Wayans played Ripcord and not his brother Damon, right? Why do you think that all black […]

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The Predator, being as it is a reflection of Carol Ferris’ “inner masculine drive,” is sort of the first transsexual supervillain, albeit only in a weird Bronze Age sort of way where issues of gender had to be addressed with space magic. (Marvel would later refine the concept with Vamp, the pretty girl who turns […]

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I was going to make fun of Michael Lynch’s incredibly witless op-ed in the New York Times which boiled down to “despite the fact that absolutely everybody in the world says that peak oil is either upon us or nearly so, they are all wrong and in fact the entire world is made of oil, […]

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Competition begins! Your judges are Jean-Marc, Tre, and Blake and Luther before Blake and Luther go off to be choreographers rather than judges. Tre says this is the best top 20 ever, which considering this is second season is not that big a deal; then Jean-Marc ups the ante by saying this is the best […]

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Although anybody familiar with the Golden Age adventure of Superman – where he frequently took on union-busters and corporate profiteers – will be surprised, here is proof that Superman supports socialist programs and government-run health care.

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