(Previously. Two. Three. Four.)

The Race recap is being delayed slightly this week due to its size (two hours long, six-day workweek, doesn’t mix) but I thought I might tide you over with some funny pictures. Take it away, BATMAN!

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Okay!

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(Previously. Two. Three.)

(Blame these.)

Top comment: This is the best post of the month so far. — Sage Freehaven

FLAPJACKS: So first you did those Fighting Fantasy gamebooks.
ME: Yes.
FLAPJACKS: And then you did all that nerd-lit from years gone by.
ME: Yes.
FLAPJACKS: You realize there remains only one true realm of nerd-bookery left to you.
ME: Unfortunately.
FLAPJACKS: A final frontier, if you will.
ME: Yes, very clever.

As selected by me, naturally. (I fully admit that there are many that might have been funnier than these to some people, but these were the funniest that were also, I feel, directly parodic of the image or the Archie ouevre itself, and given that Canadian fair dealing law protects parody and not free-ranging satire, etc.)

(Part one here. Part two here. This was originally supposed to be a three-day block of posts, but, well, we all know what happened there.)

(NEW READERS: Part two here. Part three here.)

This time around, congratulations are due to mightybaldking, Matt Morrison, James Farley, Reylance, Pedro e Silva and Michael McGee, as well as myself (who edited their ideas and added a few originals of my own). So yay for them! They are nerds too.

FYI: All those appealing to me for a “more [ideologically] balanced” set of cards probably should have thought about who they were asking for a second.

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