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Someone had to have seen this somewhere in between the design/concept and production stage and said… “let’s see if we can get this into stores before someone notices.”via Robot6

A pan-handler dressed as your friendly neighborhood web crawler got into an altercation with the police. The New York Post has the video (below). Best line from the accompanying story: “A crowd of fellow mascots, including Elmo, Batman and a side-by-side Mickey and Minnie Mouse, also stood watch, their fuzzy mitts held to their giant […]

A modest proposalI think cartoonists should get to take Memorial Day off, mostly because it would be so simple to arrange.Each year, one cartoonist would be chosen to do a cartoon of a small child saluting a gravestone, all the papers could run it, and everyone else could kick back and eat barbecue.I mean, it […]

Pardon My Planet is a flashback not just to my days in an office, but to a particular set of them.I’ve mentioned more than once (including recently) a situation in which my employer began what might be, under the right conditions, termed “constructive dismissal.”The details don’t matter a whole lot, except that I was given […]

Looks to be inline with comic book movies of late – lots of explosions, crunching cars and general mayhem.

Johanna Draper Carlson’s “Comics Worth Reading” currently features a link to a devastatingly insightful review by Chris Sims of the new collection, “Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years,” which sent me back to (A) a conversation I had recently and (B) yesterday’s criticism of modern self-absorption.Start with this bit of child-development psychological whatchamacallit:Certain dirty jokes remain […]

A University of Pittsburgh student was arrested this early this morning after robbing a convenience store dressed in a Spider-Man costume. By the reports from the local media (see video below), the caper didn’t work out so well for the faux web-head. He was tased by the convenience store clerk and arrested a block away […]

We’ll start with a recommendation: Brewster Rockit, which is always a good source of dumb jokes, is just starting a superhero spoof to layer over the top of the sci-fi spoof it already is.And the funniest part of today’s strip is that there are plenty of people with precise answers to that question, and they […]

ComicbookMovie.com has posted photos shot of the filming of the next Spider-man movie. Interesting to see the cables and harnesses used.

Student physicists from the University of Leicester have theoretically proven that spider webs, if scaled up in size, could have in fact stopped a runaway train as scene in Spider-Man 2 (see video below to refresh memory).From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: The students determined that a real spider’s web would, in a proportional scenario, be […]

Speed Bump raises some interesting issues and disturbing images today.We have to start with the admission that this comic has already gone way over the “I should really just relax” line. Which is what makes it funny.But, as long as we’re ignoring that excellent advice, Superman’s biological functions are problematic, because, while he is invulnerable, […]

There’s a thing going around — oh, sorry — got to start over …There’s a meme – which is much more important than “a thing going around” — that exists under a few different names, but which can be tracked down by Googling “Superman is kind of a dick.”  It consists of covers of old DC […]

Today’s last edition of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man reveals the death of Spider-Man at the hands of the Green Goblin. To be clear, this is a spin off comic much like the story-line of The Amazing Spider-Man in newspapers is different than those in the comic shop. From NPR: But this new, younger Ultimate Spider-Man wasn’t […]

After months of delays and becoming a running joke “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” will finally open tonight. Here’s a run-down of some of the press it’s gettting: T.V. Carpio, the woman playing the villainess Arachne is interviewed on some of the difficulties the production went through to get to tonight. The Empire State building […]

I guess after spending $65 million, the pressure is on to keep the showing going – or in this case – just get the show opened. But as Michael Cavna reports a fifth performer has been reported. This time it’s T.V. Carpio who was injured in a battle scene. She’s out for two weeks.