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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:40:34 -0400

blous-me: Well… THOON

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:18:01 -0400

blous-me:

Well…

THOON

The South Congo School of Philosophy

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:51:27 -0400

rosewednesday:

The Human Archive, in its early days, was just a bunker in the Congo, a concrete building that had been hermetically sealed at one point but was now starting to leak. The bonobos had patched it up and rigged up the dehumidifier to protect the films (and later, books) they kept there, but they mostly continued to live outdoors, preferring nests in the trees to the drafty dry air of the archives.

Bonobos who worked closely with the archive lived in the trees near the bunker at first, but as more and more people (some other apes, too) became interested in study, the area became overpopulated. New schools sprang up in different areas. The study of philosophy was far from the archive building, since it relied mostly on arguing, which for bonobos, meant discussion, followed by dispute, followed by loud sex. The school of philosophy was one of the largest and fastest-growing.

When word spread that a tiger was interested in joining the school of philosophy, the current students and faculty gathered for a discussion.

“I think that tigers are dangerous predators and we should deny admission on grounds of safety,” said Professor Hibiscus Leaf. “Being killed and eaten certainly has its place in life but would be a distraction in the classroom.”

“I believe that the tiger is sincere and could be persuaded not to eat people during discussions,” said Professor Fallen Tree. “Our policy has been that all creatures deserve an opportunity to debate life’s questions with us. If history has taught us anything, it is that exclusion is oppression. The denial of knowledge to a student is against the tenets of this scholarly body.”

In the following orgy, Professor Fallen Tree’s proposal was voted in 60 to 35, with five abstaining. Professor HIbiscus Leaf proposed the backup plan of holding classes in trees should the tiger prove impulsive, and Professor Fallen Tree, combing Hibiscus’s hair with her fingers, agreed that this seemed fair. The tiger Nnnn (“Hunger”) would be allowed to attend on a trial basis.

saboobnah: bird privilege is being able to make loud as fuck noises early in the morning without...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:42:37 -0400

saboobnah:

bird privilege is being able to make loud as fuck noises early in the morning without somebody calling the cops on you

MISAVIARY

twentypercentcooler: Superman watches Man of Steel.

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:41:33 -0400

twentypercentcooler:

Superman watches Man of Steel.

yo the simpsons be droppin truth bombs sometimes. my dad and I...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:34:49 -0400

yo the simpsons be droppin truth bombs sometimes.

my dad and I still call back to this regularly.

“Nuts & Gum. mmm, together at last.”

marriedtotheseacomics: Morrissey memorial. From Married To The...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:00:15 -0400

marriedtotheseacomics:

Morrissey memorial. From Married To The Sea.

Thursday Night Gothic is the son and the heir of a nation that is criminally divided.

It’s okay to be goth at heart #gothinside — Kat Dennings (@OfficialKat) June 8,...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:30:13 -0400

It’s okay to be goth at heart #gothinside
— Kat Dennings (@OfficialKat) June 8, 2013

Thursday Night Gothic officially approves of Kat Dennings and appreciates her endorsement.

Thursday Night Gothic takes a turn for the rococo.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:00:24 -0400

Thursday Night Gothic takes a turn for the rococo.

Thursday Night Gothic salutes that one guy

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:30:09 -0400

S/o to that one goth dood who still shows up to parties dressed like the crow

— oh hey (@lovetigerfist)

June 8, 2013

gpoy for Thursday Night Gothic

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:00:27 -0400

gpoy for Thursday Night Gothic

tompeyer: I may be a tiny lawman now Batman will take you...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:00:46 -0400

tompeyer:

I may be a tiny lawman now

Batman will take you down at any size.

brianmichaelbendis: Double-page spread by Walt Simonson...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:30:29 -0400

brianmichaelbendis:

Double-page spread by Walt Simonson (pencils) and Klaus Janson (inks) from the adaptation of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Marvel Super Special #3, 1978.

We know it’s not exactly a brave opinion or anything, but we love some Walt Simonson over here at Wednesday Comics.

fantagraphics: comicsreporter: the greatest Superman-related...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:00:52 -0400

fantagraphics:

comicsreporter:

the greatest Superman-related moment of the last 25 years, from Chris Ware and Jimmy Corrigan

Still an effective set of panels!

Wednesday Comics has nothing to add here.

themarvelageofcomics: John Romita’s concept sketch for a Li’l...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:30:29 -0400

themarvelageofcomics:

John Romita’s concept sketch for a Li’l Spidey strip that went unrealized in the 1960s.

Wednesday Comics would’ve read the hell out of this.

gailsimone: arkhamboundz: Misfit and Big Barda!! I am sorry...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:30:26 -0400

gailsimone:

arkhamboundz:

Misfit and Big Barda!!

I am sorry but this picture is too wonderful and cannot be allowed!

Wednesday Comics could die of an excess of amazing, right here.

brianmichaelbendis: Forgotten Masterpiece: “Landed” by ECO...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:00:35 -0400

brianmichaelbendis:

Forgotten Masterpiece: “Landed” by ECO (Keiichi Koike) from Epic Illustrated #26, published by Marvel/Epic, October 1984.

brianmichaelbendis: Marvel letter page titles circa 1968 part...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:30:23 -0400

brianmichaelbendis:

Marvel letter page titles circa 1968 part one.

Wednesday Comics never wrote to letter columns, but once advertised for pen pals in the back of The Maxx. Wednesday Comics was very, very lonely in the late ’90s. So very lonely.

vorpalizer: Webcomic Wednesday - “The Ghoul Man” by Jaime...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:00:44 -0400

vorpalizer:

Webcomic Wednesday - “The Ghoul Man” by Jaime Hernandez

Even a minor work matters when it’s made by someone major. One half of the comics-making team known as Los Bros Hernandez, Jaime is best known for his long-running “Locas” saga in the pages of Love and Rockets, the series he shares with his brother Gilbert. That story started out sci-fi but grew into a grippingly realistic portrayal of a gaggle of friends and acquaintances with shared roots in Los Angeles’s Latino punk scene. Still, Jaime likes to flex his genre muscles from time to time, and “The Ghoul Man,” originally a limited-run minicomic now up on Jordan Crane’s webcomics portal What Things Do, demonstrates why that’s worth doing.

The spitting image of Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera, the titular ghoul arises and shambles around town looking for flesh to devour, only to be put off the chase by a series of encounters with other monsters — werewolves, mummies, a Frankenstein’s monster, and in the memorable diner encounter above, a vampire. When the ghoul first approaches her, we and he consider her just another potential victim. But her tear-streaked face indicates right off the bat that she’s got a story of her own, something that narcissists like the ghoul fail to take into consideration when dealing with other people. Sure enough, she’s in the diner for the same reason she is, and she’s got the power and the guts to scare him off and commandeer this chapter of his adventure for her own.

It’s great fun just to watch an artist at Jaime’s level draw a cast of characters straight out of a black-and-white B-movie — I mean, no one in comics uses big black swashes with as much graphic impact or storytelling clarity; just look at how the blacks in the sequence above move your eye around the page. But he’s doing it in service of saying something, too, and that’s the kind of treat worth browsing around for.

starting another Wednesday Comics with a Jaime Hernandez mini-comic, The Ghoul Man (which the original post didn’t link to, for some reason).

nhyworks: Why should we care about women’s representation in video games?” Nobody is going to want...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:39:56 -0400

nhyworks:

Why should we care about women’s representation in video games?”

Nobody is going to want a female protagonist!

Their target audience isn’t big enough to warrant any games!”

Women aren’t as capable as men, they don’t belong in video games!”

If more women starting playing video games, maybe then they’d have a say in the matter!”