COMICS WE’RE BUYING THIS WEEK: Crabapples, Breast-Feeding, and Aliens. We Have Win!
Come one, come all into the rodeo of splash-page-ultra-narrative death. This is Comics We’re Buying This Week, the column where we gather in a neat circle and share the new funny books that are exciting us. It’s communal. Like the showers. Like the water fountain. I go first. Don’t lag behind. This week is replete with eccentric wunder-artists, premiere issues, and breast milk. It’s going to be fun.
Don’t know what’s coming out this week? Hit up ComicList. Excuses removed!
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USDA Buys 7 Million Pounds Of PINK GOOP BEEF For SCHOOLS
I have to say, we set our kids up to succeed these days. Cutting school budgets, mindless burecracy preventing the evolution of the educational system and now this: about as close to poisoning the little fuckers as you can get.
ALAN MOORE On The Fans Who Will Buy ‘BEFORE WATCHMEN’ ILU, Alan.
Yo! I’m riding on this here high horse, and I’m swooping down with some awesomeness from Alan Moore on the fans who will buy Before Watchmen. Note: I know he’s generalizing since I think Rendar and others here at OL are going to buy it, and they seem like decent enough people. You know. Friends. A brother. But still. I fist-pump to the sentiment while acknowledging the necessary middle ground everywhere in Existence.
DOJ Asks Court To Keep Secret Any PARTNERSHIP Between GOOGLE And NSA. LOL @ Privacy
The Justice Department refuses to divulge whatever sort of agreement there may be between Google and the National Security Agency. Not that there is one, of course.
Infographic Depicting Every Manned Space Mission Is Cosmic Win
Between 1961 and 2011, the U.S. rocked 166 manned missions into space. This sexy infographic summarizes the glory of the days when we Dreamed in one tight package.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Video: Why MARIO Is a DOUCHEBAG. Win ++
No long-wined exposition necessary. Cracked presented a compelling argument as to why Mario is a douchebag. Hilarious.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Yahoo Sues FACEBOOK For Patent Infringement. Good Luck With that!
Living in a post-legal world where it’s not about adhering to the law but rather being Titanic and Rich, this is a bit amusing. Yahoo has decided to sue the Leviathan. May the Gods smile upon you.
Video: Drugged NATHAN DRAKE Terrorizes Real Life Local Flea Market
Geek satire central Mega64 is at it again, this time with a hilarious send-up of a moment in Uncharted 3. Proving that only polygonal Nathan Drake can be as cool as he seems, they sent a good lad into an actual local flea drugged and stumbling. Mind the half-tuck!
Hit the jump to check it out.
Strange Moments in Solid Movies: Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head, Butch Cassidy
Though it is unquestionably a great film in my mind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a strange beast of meshing tones, genres, and storytelling techniques. Dynamic as hell, it has the ability to jump at a (strange) moment’s notice from farcical, tongue-in-cheek roguishness more fit for a straight comedy to pensive, anti-western mythmaking more in keeping with late 60s-early 70s westerns. A particularly fitting example is when the protagonists escape to Bolivia: there, we are hit with the wonderful irony of Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and Sundance Kid’s (Robert Redford) professional transmogrification from bank robbers to payroll security; but before this can be relished, both characters are confronted by outlaws not unlike themselves (albeit more lethal), which rapidly culminates in a slow-motion shootout analogous to Peckinpah’s bloody masterpiece The Wild Bunch. The shift is shocking–as one of such a violent nature should be.
‘THE AVENGERS’ CHARACTER POSTERS Are Definition Of Meh! Plus MIDNIGHT TICKETS
Oh golly! Some typically barf-esque character posters for the Avengers have been released. Plus!, midnight showings are now on sale.
Hit the jump for all the uh, glory.
