Aug

Beat 14238, suckas

Posted by MGK Published in Gaming, The Internets

Globetrotter XL.

Aug

Bleg-time

Posted by MGK Published in Nothing Else Fit

Any cartoonists/illustrators with a facility for cariacature interested in working on a small side-project (non-comic-related) with the promise of precisely zero compensation – email me and we’ll talk.

1 comment

Aug

Friday Andy Richter Controls The Universe

Posted by MGK Published in TV

7 comments

Aug

New Daily Show strategies for conservatives

Posted by MGK Published in TV

Following up on “the Mike Huckabee” (be genial and friendly, present absolutely psychotic ideas as reasonable, and be polite to people you slandered last week) and “the Bill Kristol” (endlessly assert the moral superiority of the military over the general public in all instances regardless of circumstance or relevance), I believe we can now add […]

23 comments

Aug

A thousand fleshy tinmen hold sway

Posted by MGK Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Comics

No Who’s Who this week, as momentous events necessitate a pause: namely, the publication of Archie #600, the now-notorious “Archie proposes to Veronica in an imaginary story” issue. Now, back when the issue was first announced, I took the opportunity to make fun of Betty being insane, and that took on a life of its […]

23 comments

Aug

Insert the Terminator clip of your choosing here.

Posted by Andrew Foley Published in Important Things!, The Miscellaneous Sciences And Crap Like That

I am a natural-born luddite. My mother fondly remembers me tossing my booties at her sewing machine as an infant.1 My irrational hatred and fear of technology is profound, but not without just cause. As far as I can tell, machines hate me right back, on a fundamental, and personal, level. Examples of this antipathy […]

13 comments

Aug

We ask the questions nobody answers

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Conversations

FLAPJACKS: I have a question. ME: Oh, good. FLAPJACKS: Why is Spider-Man poor? ME: Because he can’t hold down a steady job because of great responsibility and so forth. FLAPJACKS: Yeah, I get that, but why is he poor? Why doesn’t he just go on a reality TV show and make a lot of money? […]

47 comments

Aug

I plan to be mature at some point in the future, really

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Books

(Original image by the Weasel King.)

21 comments

Aug

Peter Parker and his Damn Good Excuse (or: “Everybody seems to think I’m lazy…”)

Posted by Justin Zyduck Published in Comics

Hey there, special internet friends. Justin again. I can do more than just make lists and slight Will Eisner’s contributions to comics as a medium, you know! I can also talk a little bit about the superhero comics that grabbed my imagination by the yarbles as a youth, and how I engage with them as […]

41 comments

Aug

Bob Bolling And The Pursuit Of Melancholy Innocence

Posted by Jaime Weinman Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Comics

Hi, I’m Jaime Weinman, of Something Old, Nothing New and TV Guidance; thanks to MGK for inviting me into his domain. Now, I love snarky comments about Betty Cooper’s insanity, or Archie comics panels and the improvement thereof. But I’m also interested in trying to learn more about the non-official history of Archie as a […]

28 comments

Aug

Explaining Hollywood, Part Seven

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Explaining Hollywood, Flicks

SCENE: A STUDIO BIGWIG and his three JUNIOR EXECUTIVES sit at a table. BIGWIG: You know, other junior executives would have folded in the face of an economic downturn, but not my indefatigable team of four executives. (The FIRST JUNIOR EXECUTIVE looks around, confused.) FIRST: Four comes after three, right? BIGWIG: Oh, yes, that’s right. […]

28 comments

Aug

Asses and the sitting of thereupon

Posted by MGK Published in Health Care

So I’ve been getting email after email after friggin’ email from nerds who have decided that this blog is the official “government policy for nerds” blog and who want me to talk about healthcare again. Which, cool that I have a niche and all, but yeesh, how much can you talk about healthcare really? Seriously. […]

18 comments

Aug

A half-hearted defence of a whole-hearted massacre

Posted by Andrew Foley Published in Comics

“In the early years of the 21st Century, America and the world reeled in horror in response to a vicious, unwarranted attack to some of the country’s most cherished institutions. I refer of course to Marvel Comics miniseries Ultimatum …” – Introduction to the Jeph Loeb chapter of Lloyd DeGroot’s “They Really Mean It: America’s […]

23 comments

Aug

Top nosh

Posted by Elizabeth Graham Published in Om Nom Nom Nom

After my last post, there were many insightful questions raised in the comments (including a well-reasoned debate on British standards of attractiveness. Surprisingly, no one has yet brought up Alan Rickman.) Anyway, among the questions was: CB: Also, Elizabeth, is it true that Brits have terrible food? Because every time I read a Harry Potter […]

29 comments

Aug