The Comics Curmudgeon puts his foot down:
IN OTHER NEWS: I have tried to be nice, and reason with you all, but I am done with that. Discussing Mallard Fillmore in the comments only pisses everyone off and contributes nothing. Anyone doing so will be banned on the first offense I catch, starting now.
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From a gallery of excellent covers for classic crime comics of the 1950s. Fair warning — these are pretty gruesome. I love it!

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Defamer passes on the confirmation of Newsarama’s speculation that the Watchmen movie will remain true to Alan Moore and David Gibbons’ vision by featuring plenty of full frontal Dr. Manhattan.

Or “lower Manhattan” as the punning goes. I suspect that like George Clooney’s Bat-nips, the blue shlong is a rubber-plastic mold. Nonetheless, this talisman penetrates the [...]

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I had already decided that I would not go see Iron Man, because it looked like just another multi-million dollar piece of shit. But David Denby has given my smug leftist heart a moral reason to avoid it altogether:
The director, Jon Favreau, and two writing teams, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, and Art Marcum and [...]

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Tom Toles:

Pearls Before Swine:

Is this a new meme?
UPDATE: Point of order, my wife points out that in the first cartoon Popeye does not, in fact, choke on the spinach. He just eats it and dies. STILL, I say, it’s funny that two different cartoonists used Popeye dying from spinach as a joke.
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