I don’t do a lot with comic books, but I’ll happily refer you to this Comicsbeat article about the original Fantastic Four, because it explains why in a charmingly roundabout way. Everything about Fantastic Four is ridiculous. Deliciously ridiculous. If you’re wondering how four people got such dramatically different super powers from the same incident, the answer […]
We’ll lead off today with snippets of things you should go check out, starting with Ann Telnaes’s longer piece on the conference about sexual abuse at the Vatican. Or the conference at the Vatican about sexual abuse. Whichever. It is well-worth the click. Signe Wilkinson takes up a piece of that argument, agreeing with Telnaes […]
Arlo resurrects an artifact of the 60s that, yes, I once owned, and Janis is fully justified in her frustration, because what the thing does is to cut down the size of the target by about two-thirds. Wadding up a piece of paper required getting it small enough to pass through the hoop, which meant […]
Today’s Bottomliners coincidentally echoes some rumblings on social media, which I think started … … with this piece that graphic novelist Nate Powell posted about two weeks ago … … but which, in the last 48 hours or so, was joined by this article, which ran last May at Comics Beat, in which […]