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April 9, 2012

Batman and Ronald

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Published on April 09, 2012 07:25

April 3, 2012

A look at some upcoming redneck themed TV shows

Over at Fickle Pants, I have a new post in which I examine some of the upcoming redneck-themed TV shows. Here is a small sample:

NEXT SEASON'S REDNECK THEMED TV SHOWS!

Finally, after being ignored for too long, American rednecks are getting their pop culture due. Thanks to programs like "Hillbilly Hand Fishin'," "Lizard Lick Towing," "Bayou Billionaires," "My Big Redneck Vacation" (those two
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Published on April 03, 2012 06:50

April 2, 2012

My Doughnut Wrapped Bacon Wrapped Brats

Over at the lovely Fickle Pants website, I have a new piece about the doughnut wrapped bacon wrapped brats I cooked yesterday. Spoiler alert: They were delicious!

Here is a small "taste":
Here at the Fickle Pants Test Kitchen, we are constantly striving for new frontiers in cookery. Unfortunately, we lack traditional culinary skill; but we more than make up for that with a surfeit of enthusiasm
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Published on April 02, 2012 12:10

March 31, 2012

The Superman Copyfight Crisis rages on!

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were both about 19 years old when they created the character called "Superman," in 1933. He was based upon the title character from a novel called Gladiator, by Philip Wylie, Hercules, and Samson. Also, interestingly enough, Siegel and Shuster seem to have swiped the name "Superman" from an ad for "The Man of Bronze," Doc Savage:

(Image source)

He was not originally
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Published on March 31, 2012 09:32

March 25, 2012

"Avengers Assemble" #1: Mainstream comics creators really have no idea what's going on anymore.

Have you heard about the new "Avengers Assemble" #1? On March 13, USA Today had a big preview that is sure to whet your appetite for... well, um, more of the same. At least, if the cover is to be believed:


Obviously the first question when looking at this stupid image is, Why is Captain America leaping off from Hulk's crotch? Hulk has a super crotch, I'm sure, so it would take a lot to injure
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Published on March 25, 2012 08:14

March 22, 2012

What the heck is going on in this panel? Captain America #131 page 18 edition

Today I offer the first of what will probably be a series of classic comic book images in which I ask, "What the heck is going on in this panel?" First up is something from Captain America #131, cover dated November 1970. Below is the image, completely unaltered by me, except for some minor altering for clarity, crispening, and to get my point across about the sheer what-the-heckedness of the
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Published on March 22, 2012 08:16

March 21, 2012

Tom Hanks makes a bestiality joke with a guy in blackface.

Last year, the actor, producer, director, writer and narrator Tom Hanks, who rose to fame dressing in drag on a situation comedy, refunded the money of a couple he met at a gas station who said his most recent directorial effort, Larry Crowne, "wasn't that good." At the time I chastised Mr. Hanks for giving the refund, and the couple who accepted it, on the grounds that art is subjective and one
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Published on March 21, 2012 07:54

March 19, 2012

Classic lost comic from 1997: Urkel

Over at the terrific new site Fickle Pants, I have a new piece up celebrating the classic comic book incarnation of Steve Urkel, from "Family Matters," and current "Dancing with the Stars" contestant. Why not slip over there and take a peek?


Read all about it, and see more image scans here!
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Published on March 19, 2012 09:25

Are you frightened about the frighteningly commonplace choking game epidemic? You should be!

Over at When Falls the Coliseum, I posted a piece about the great Choking Game epidemic, which is apparently sweeping the world, or something. A little bit:

Today, Yahoo had a link on their main page to an alarming story about an alarming trend -- actually, it's more like an epidemic! -- of children (who are our future and our most precious resource) asphyxiating themselves in an effort to
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Published on March 19, 2012 09:05

March 12, 2012

The Fanboy's lament: What if "The Dark Knight Rises" turns out to not be the greatest film of all time?

"The Dark Knight Rises" is my all-time favorite movie. I know it hasn't come out yet, and I haven't seen it, but no movie has ever made me happier, and there's no movie that I've ever wanted to see more than this one. Christopher Nolan's first two Batman films were masterpieces of the genre, perhaps the two greatest comic book movies ever made. And since comic book movies are dominating our
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Published on March 12, 2012 07:39