His Spiffyness
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Rob Liefeld’s Maus
I made myself feel a little sad with this one. :(The two men are from Kirkman and Liefeld’s The Infinte (2011) and are drawn by Rob Liefeld. The two mice and the Hitler Cat are of course from Art Spiegelman’s superb Maus.
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Ok so April and I have been seeing all these COMPLAINTS about how “unrealistic” and “sexist” comic books are in the way they portray women and their bodies.
WELL we have decided that you are all crazy feminists and there is nothing wrong with how women are drawn in comic books.
So to prove this we have decided to show you that not only are women portrayed realistically in comics, but we do most of these so called “impossible” and “ridiculous” poses on a daily basis just by naturally going about our buisness.
And if THIS doesn’t convince you, just wait ‘til next week! We plan to post a new picture each Wednesday and friday. And if you think that this is some sort of joke or that this is not how we perform tasks on a daily basis, then fuck you! You don’t know our lives.
We DEFY you to find a pose that we don’t do on normal, average day…..come at us bro!
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My Summation of the Star Trek movie Franchise
The First Trek movie was trying to be something bigger than what it was, and ended up failing from it’s own pomposity.
Wrath of Khan brought the movies back to their roots, with focus on adventure and the characters. All things considered, the stakes were really not that high, Khan may have had the Genesis device, but really the movie was about his personal vendetta against Kirk.
The Search for Spock was essentially trying to undo the ending of the previous story. The addition of the Vulcan mysticism was a bit of a hand wave and kind of flew in the face of what was known about Vulcans.
The Voyage Home had the biggest stakes of the original quartet of movies with the Earth in danger of destruction, but it was mostly just a fun caper with the cast playing the fish out of water in then Modern Day San Francisco.
The Final Frontier had not only the first movie’s problem of trying to tell an epic story line bigger than anything they had ever done before, they also got saddled with a first time director with some clear ego issues.
The Undiscovered Country may not be the most beloved of the original movies, but I’d say it’s the one that got it right. It had an epic story line of the Federation and the Klingon Empire settling their differences, and those conspirators who were trying to stop it. Yet it was still a very character driven story with the crew dealing with conspiracies aboard ship and the Kirk and McCoy trying to survive the prison planet.
Generations was a bit of a failure largely due to it being another epic story with far too much going on. And the Enterprise D crew found itself in the same position as the original crew, or not really having their footing with regards to the movies.
First Contact is the most popular of the Next Gen movies, and it has it’s moments, but the focus on Picard’s suddenly developed Ahab complex regarding the Borg was kind of out of character for him. Furthermore, the introduction of the Borg Queen was the first step that lead to the downfall of the Borg as a credible threat in the Voyager era.
Insurrection should have been a home run, it had all of the elements that would have made a good episode of the series, but spread out on the big screen it was not enough and ended up rather boring.
Nemesis with it’s Picard clones, Federation Dune Buggies and Data’s idiot brother was just sad.
I have yet to really get into New Formula Trek. The first movie felt too much like an attempt to throw every possible trope from the series up on the big screen. It felt less like Star Trek than like Galaxy Quest: The Serious Movie
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A Wonderful dad and daughter
From the DC booth at WonderCon
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Oh hell yes! This is actually happening!
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/10/scoop-doctor-who-star-trek-official-crossover/
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February 1st 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. -
I did everything that I thought would make me a “success” and help me make a positive difference in the movement for social justice and equality. I got good grades in college, I went to law school in my late twenties and got an MPH in my forties. I’ve worked for people with HIV/AIDS for 17 years and other progressive health policy and law groups. Now I’m unemployed at 54 and have been job hunting since April. I borrowed $63,000 in public and private loans. I then consolidated them thinking that it would save me money. I now owe $102,000 even though I have payed nearly $33,000. This is usurious, unjust and back breaking. Wake up-since when did we become so afraid or fair taxes and closing the loop holes on the rich?! Since when did “tax the wealthy” and “income equality” mean class warfare? Yes, we have a class warfare now but as we know, it’s the 1% exploiting all the rest of us to support their greed. What happened to this world that we think that homelessness, high unemployment and dire poverty are acceptable?!
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Emotionally intense images of retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis - who has joined the #OccupyWallStreet protests - being arrested by the NYPD.
Captain Lewis has been outspoken against the NYPD’s wrongful use of violence against peaceful protesters.
From what I have seen, Ray Lewis’ conduct defines honor, bravery, and dignity.
There is a media blackout on images of his participation in the protest, and on his arrest:
It’s proved impossible for me to get this shot of former Philadelphia Police Cpt. Ray Lewis being arrested, published anywhere. I was adamantly rebuffed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, NYT, local NY papers, and Newsweek, before even looking at the photograph. One of the only published photos of this paradoxical and intense event is located here at the NYC Observer:
http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former-philadelphia-police-captain-ray-lewis-arrested-ows/
Make this viral and they will come.
Ray Lewis gets 2 posts this morning, because this needs to be seen. I’m not even sure why, but this pair of photos made me cry hysterically.
oh my god. so much props to this man. this country has turned into utter fucking insanity.
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Cyclops: the Worst Leader (an interview)
So, you’re a teacher at a school where mutant kids can learn to control their powers. What tricks do you use to keep your powers under control?
I don’t. I have a special pair of glasses that does it for me.
[awkward pause]
Without them, I am helpless and blind.
Well, designing them must have taken considerable ingenui—
I didn’t design them. The Professor did.
Oh. Well, that was kind of him. He also asked you to lead his team of mutant superheroes, the X-men, from their inception. What qualities led him to trust you to lead at such a young age?
I am a natural leader.
Er, yes. How so?
I am very good at leadership.
But what aspects of leadership?
The part where I am the leader of the team.
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The Cyberman was actually designed for an illustration tutorial for the visual effects magazine ImagineFX. But Matt Savage does a great job of incorporating a lot of elements from the Troughton era.
Cybermen by Matt Savage. Matt was one of the concept artists for the first couple of series of the current Doctor Who. This recent bit of art was posted on a forum I’m on and I thought it was fantastic.
