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this blog is dead. follow new blog.

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:30:00 -0500

This blog is finished. I will continue being a nerd at BETA RAY BILL(Y)

gdenton: Financial Advice. Excellent.

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:04:29 -0500

gdenton:

Financial Advice.

Excellent.

This is what I imagine prison gyms are like. Really gay. from...

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:59:25 -0500

This is what I imagine prison gyms are like. Really gay.

from Secret Avengers #9, written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Mike Deodato Jr

And the Marvel swimsuit special’s attack again. Thank god...

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:46:06 -0500

And the Marvel swimsuit special’s attack again. Thank god the editors of the 90’s had a sense of humor when it came to making a ‘genre’ out of muscled dudes in tights.

Doctor Strange makes me so happy.

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:58:12 -0500

Doctor Strange makes me so happy.

I am really enjoying the leaked albums of 2011 so far.

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:15:50 -0500

I am really enjoying the leaked albums of 2011 so far.

DC Comics artist Ethan Van Sciver sings WOLVERINE IS GAY. Pfff,...

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:17:53 -0500

DC Comics artist Ethan Van Sciver sings WOLVERINE IS GAY.

Pfff, I wish.

an incredibly gay jpeg from an old Marvel Swimsuit Special, art...

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:56:11 -0500

an incredibly gay jpeg from an old Marvel Swimsuit Special, art by John Romita Jr

Notice how all Superboy’s fellow students pass out from...

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:17:00 -0500

Notice how all Superboy’s fellow students pass out from shock and horror when they see the hideous proportions of his school clothes?

How unfortunate that Jeff Lemire’s foray into pop-superhero comics is tarnished by art and design like this.

I should have known this scene was going to turn out horrifying....

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:33:38 -0500

I should have known this scene was going to turn out horrifying. Crossed is the most disturbing comic I’ve read in a while (in a good way!), but I guess even the people on the run from the infected hoards of murderous, raping, sadistic, pedophile killers can’t all be pristine themselves.

from Crossed #6, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Jacen Burrows

Getting to know you better during the apocalypse. from Crossed...

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:25:00 -0500

Getting to know you better during the apocalypse.

from Crossed #5, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Jacen Burrows

Kate and Renee, flirting under the influence from Detective...

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:45:13 -0500

Kate and Renee, flirting under the influence

from Detective Comics #859 by Greg Rucka and JH Williams III

1972 photo of cartoonist Rick Veitch (Brat Pack, Army @ Love,...

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:56:21 -0500

1972 photo of cartoonist Rick Veitch (Brat Pack, Army @ Love, Swamp Thing, etc)

Total and complete babe, omg.

This is even MORE hilarious now that it’s common knowledge that...

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:27:00 -0500

This is even MORE hilarious now that it’s common knowledge that JP is gay. SORRY GIRLS.

Right-wing bloggers decry Nightrunner, DC’s Muslim ‘Batman of Paris’

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:56:00 -0500

This character looks fucking bad ass. But of course, there must be ‘controversy’…

From Robot 6:

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Nightrunner, from Batman Annual #28 (art by Trevor McCarthy)

A conservative blogger who earlier sounded the alarm about the perceived attack on the tea party movement inCaptain America and warned of the “anti-American nihilism” of Watchmen has now turned his attention to Bruce Wayne’s recruitment of a Muslim to be the Batman of Paris.

But Nightrunner, the parkour-trained crimefighter introduced in this month’s Detective Comics Annual #12, isn’t justany Muslim — he’s a 22-year-old Algerian Muslim living in Clichy-sous-Bois, the poor commune east of Paris best known outside of France as the epicenter of the 2005 riots. And that doesn’t sit well with Warner Todd Huston.

“You see, DC Comics has decided that the ‘French savior,’ the French Batman is to be a Muslim immigrant,” Hustonwrites on his Publis’ Forum. “The character’s name is Bilal Asselah and he is an Algerian Sunni Muslim and an immigrant that is physically fit and adept at gymnastic sport Parkour. Apparently Batman couldn’t find any actual Frenchman to be the ‘French savior’.” What constitutes an “actual Frenchman” isn’t entirely clear, but presumably the writer is referring to one of the “Frenchmen of European stock” he mentions later.

Huston takes aim at David Hine’s story, which centers on a series of political assassinations that lead to riots by communist union members and neo-Nazis, describing it as “PCism at its worst”: “The whole situation is a misreading of what ails France. The truth is, neither communist Union members nor ‘Neo-Nazi’ Parties are causing riots in France. Muslims are. Yet DC Comics is absurdly making a Muslim immigrant the ‘French savior’?” He accuses the publisher of badly downplaying in Nightrunner’s origin “the seriousness of the actual racial tension in France” and oversimplifying the problems “as mere racism as if that is all there is to it ignoring the fact that Islam is the single most important factor in the strife.”

From Nightrunner’s origin

He isn’t alone in his criticism; he’s merely picking up the baton passed by far-right commentators like Avi Green who, writing last week at The Astute Bloggers — a site dedicated to “exposing leftist propaganda,” “highlighting under-reported news” and “promoting universal human rights” — said, “How about that, Bruce Wayne goes to France where he hires not a genuine French boy or girl with a real sense of justice, but rather, an ‘oppressed’ minority who adheres to the Religion of Peace. And this is a guy whose very parents were murdered at the hands of a common street thug!”

So while Huston isn’t the only defender of the, I don’t know, wounded honor of “actual Frenchmen” in this manufactured controversy, he may be among the most widely distributed. Commentary from his Publis’ Forumregularly appears at other conservative outlets, such as Andrew Breitbart’s network of websites and Canada Free Press. His Feb. 8 column aboutCaptain America #602 was followed by FoxNews.com’s article about the comic’s “tea party jab” which, in turn, triggered more widespread coverage.

Huston characterizes DC’s decision to make “a Muslim in France a hero when French Muslims are at the center of some of the worst violence in the country’s recent memory” as “PCism run amuck.” It’s apparently part of the “PCing of the American comic book industry” that includes the Captain America-tea party incident, the introduction of gay character Kevin Keller in the pages of Veronica, and … Larfleeze? That’s right, Agent Orange.

Andrew Belonsky at Death and Taxes, who was among the first to pick up on the reaction to Nightrunner, views it in light of the recent calls for a boycott of Marvel’s Thor movie because black actor Idris Elba was cast as the Norse god Heimdall:

The Nightrunner controversy differs a bit from the Thor scandal seen earlier this week. In theThor scenario, the Council [of Conservative Citizens] wasn’t saying black people can’t be heroes, period. They simply don’t want to see Idris Elba in a specific role.

“It’s not enough that Marvel attacks conservatives values, now mythological Gods must be re-invented with black skin,” they said. “It seems that Marvel Studios believes that white people should have nothing that is unique to themselves.”

It’s a discriminatory, myopic view, yes, but not nearly as narrow as the one The Astute Bloggers trumpet. Green and his colleagues assume Muslims can’t be heroic because they’re inherently villainous and out to spread “Islamic supremacism.”

Nightrunner’s introduction continues in Batman Annual #28, in stores this week.

Santa Doesn’t Smoke

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 07:28:00 -0500

A new Christmas mix from Beck

Santa Doesn’t Smoke by planned_obsolescence

Will It Be A Blue Beetle Bait And Switch?

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:08:00 -0500

This was just posted at Bleeding Cool. Nice, in a weird way, to see DC semi-acknowledging the mishandeling of their minority characters…by making people think they’re racists yet again just so they can yell at you for being judgmental instead? Whatever, man…

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Those who have seen the new DC solicitations for March can be in no doubt. Yet another minority character getting bumped off. Outrage outrage outrage. And what’s even worse is that it’s a spoiler. The current Blue Beetle is about to snuff it.

“It’s the calm before the storm in issue #21. Beetle is dead, Max Lord has Checkmate and the hunt for Wonder Woman has begun. But Booster Gold has given up after losing another friend to Max Lord, and the JLI is left without a leader!”

As if. This is a bait and switch, so that DC can, at some point, go “see! see! He isn’t dead! And you all thought he was. We’re nice to our minority characters… now. How could you think anything but?”

With a Blue Beetle comic series and a possible TV series in the offing, this was never going to happen. And you went and fell for it… well some of you, anyway.

It’s funny because she’s been sweating and grinding...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:46:33 -0500

It’s funny because she’s been sweating and grinding her teeth for a whole day making a huge force-field and probably giving herself hemorrhoids. Namor is fucking cool.

from Fantastic Four #586, by Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting

“Games of chance”. These little dudes are...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:39:28 -0500

“Games of chance”. These little dudes are adorable.

I know they’re intelligent lifeforms but I still want a Moloid as a pet. Is that racist?

from Fantastic Four #586, by Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting

Oh man, I live for this kind of shit. from Fantastic Four #586,...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:35:47 -0500

Oh man, I live for this kind of shit.

from Fantastic Four #586, by Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting