I am the biggest geek ever.

My life-sized Captain America shield arrived in the mail yesterday from Midtown Comics. Just had to gloat a little in my geekdom.



This is a picture with my head in it for reference.



You too could order it from Midtown Comics if only they were still in stock.

I got 3. One for my apartment. One for my office at the VA. The last for my office at the U.

I am such a loooooooser. But I revel. Revel I say.

Koyaanisqatsi Thursday

I completely forgot to mention Koyaanisqatsi Thursday. Be warned. It's on Hulu, and Koyaaniqatsi interspersed with commercials for premium dog food is something of a mind fuck. Koyaanisqatsi Thursday may never be the same again.



UPDATE: Hulu has removed the commercial interruptions from Koyaanisqatsi! I wonder if they heard about Koyaanisqatsi Thursday possibly never being the same again.

UPDATE 2: Okay, they lied. There are totally commercials in there.


There is no spokesperson for reckless driving, folks.

Jack & Max Escape from the End of Time

Colleague Mike Dawson has been totally working a lot since the release of his critically acclaimed memoir Freddie & Me. He's also got another book coming out this month: Ace-Face: The Mod with the Metal Arms. Freddie & Me was one of the better comics I've read in a while, and Ace-Face looks like great fun, also. Ted at Gecko Books will order it for you if you ask nice.

The point I meant to make is this: Mike is also writing and drawing a serial web-comic called Jack & Max Escape from the End of Time that I think a lot of us would find highly enjoyable and quite accessible to our particular sensibilities. It's a sweet mix of contradictions--both mysterious and funny; the art manages to be at once goofy and bold, and the story hops between the deadly serious and the unapologetically nerdy and infantile. And it starts HERE.

RIP Ellie

I've debated about whether to post this or not, but I think I will. My unbelievably lovely wife Ellie passed away one week ago today from lung cancer. As p.o.t.-ers may remember, she really liked the x-men-- she'd filled in the 15 years or so of gaps in my collection from the 70s-90s via ebay by the time we'd been together a few months. I made this picture of Ellie as Dazzler for her birthday invitation two years ago.

I love you, Ellie.

For Easter..... LEGO Jesus

Wouldn't it have been cool if Jesus Christ, after his crucifixion three days earlier, had been resurrected in the form of LEGOs? Like, the same human form and visage, same eternal love and compassion on the inside, but made out of LEGO bricks?

How our Easter traditions might be different today....

American cable TV news

British comedian/columnist/writer Charlie Brooker takes a look at TV news.

Precise Cheops Angles

Guys, can we put away the snark for a minute and focus on something important? Something like, oh, I don't know, your very wellness? I know from personal experience that most of you have complained at one time or another of tired blood and feelings of unwonted vagueness. Or maybe you buy some produce and it doesn't last as long as the sticker says it will. Whatever the problem is, you've only yourself to blame from this point forward, because for the first time since Ancient Egypt, mass-produced pyramids with precise Cheops angles are available on the Internet. In point of fact, these pyramids are even better than their stoney forebears for two salient reasons: 1) they've been supercharged by Tesla coils; and 2) they are not built by shiftless semitic slave laborers.

There's even one for the bedroom. And tuning fork therapy resources.

You're welcome,

Lungclops (retired)

Globecycle!

My friend James is cycling round the world as fast as he can to raise money for Parkinson's research.