John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

A T-shirt for pizza-loving Gothamites

My good friend Maggie directed me to this, knowing I have a thing for T-shirts. (Click on the tag below to see just how much.) As spotted on Glennz Tees.

The Justice League and some totally ordinary guy

A comic take on Batman and his special "powers."

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Hitler loses it over the Disney-Marvel deal

Another example in the meme that won't die. Retooling of a once-serious seen from the film Downfall began last year; in July, I posted a version about the death of Michael Jackson. The latest one I've seen? Last week's DIsney purchase of the Marvel comics canon.

In stitches

One of the online comics I've been following lately is My Cardboard Life, in which little bits of cardboard and other items (like a bandage, as seen above) are used to illustrate the panels. It's a little loopy and whimsical, but a good chuckle and worth checking out every so often. The strips are archived and easy to browse.

What's unfilmable?

With the Watchmen DVD hitting stores today (including a director's cut edition that adds 24 minutes to the running time), Wired asks an interesting question: what else is out there, really, that's unfilmable? Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns (above) is on the list, as well as dorm-reading mainstays Gravity's Rainbow and Neuromancer. You can add your own suggestions to the list, and vote on your interest in any of the adaptations.

In search of Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes has long been a subject of admiration in our house, and my wife and I have been looking on fondly as our son, just a little older than Calvin, has discovered the joy of a boy and his stuffed (or is he?) tiger.

One of the books I'm looking forward to seeing this fall is Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, by Nevin Martell. The book looks at how Bill Watterson created a sensation of a comic strip, and then retired it after only a decade. This recent post on Boing Boing points to what we can expect:

In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip, writer Nevin Martell traces the life and career of the extraordinary, influential, and intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes. With input from a wide range of artists and writers (including Dave Barry, Harvey Pekar, Jonathan Lethem, and Brad Bird) as well as some of Watterson's closest friends and professional colleagues, this is as close as we're ever likely to get to one of America's most ingenious and intriguing figures - and a fascinating detective story, at the same time.

The Boing Boing link includes directions on getting a free download of a chapter of the book.

If I had a mjolnir, I'd mjolnir in the morning ...

So, these dudes did a list of the top 20 weapons in the comics ... and guess what Nordic piece came out on top?

You, too, can be Batman

Depending, of course. Click here for a Chris Brown item that aired on The National this week, on a theory about how anyone ... with hard work and dedication ... can become a crimefighter.

The Grinch, the heart, the pending autopsy

As seen on Deleted Scenes.

Comic book covers

Cover Browser is a trip down memory lane for yours truly, as I stuffed hundreds of comic books into boxes when I was a kid. (Unfortunately, many of them were destroyed when flooding from a tropical storm in 2001 wiped out that and many books.) Have a peek.