Speaking of Wizard, I just noticed that the Kristen Bell photos for the online and print editions are a bit different:
Why exactly is this? Wouldn't a half-dressed young woman apparently tying a garotte around her neck appeal to the online community as well? Or is it just that "stripes are in?"
This year's bestselling toy has been recalled because it can be ingested and turned into a date rape drug. In other news, reports are coming in that if you lick the eyeball of the Tickle Me Extreme Cookie Monster, you can see the dead.
Here are 10 of the worst comic book advertisements ever printed. Curiously, the list fails to mention "Resistance Fall Of Man" ad of little girl with demon-mouth skipping rope that almost made crap my pants last night.
The Spice Girls now have a BLOG! (whee!) It's filled with fascinating quotes like "Melanie C is definitely embracing her Sporty roots today in a fetching pair of tracky bottoms." Of interest, though, is Ginger Spice's claim that "...the Spice Girls are now Spice Women." Spice Women. Sounds like something you'd run into in a "Dune" novel.
"Suicide Squad" and "GrimJack" scribe John Ostrander picks his top Chick Flicks. There will be Tom Hanks...oh yes, there will be Tom Hanks.
A new study says that female corporate directors make more money than men. In other news, much much much much more male corporate directors than female. So it all works out...uh, right?
Vintage Video: Batman Versus "the Evil King of Memphis." Note: Adam West refers to Superman as "Supe" in this footage, alert John Byrne.
Worst ad I remember in a comic:
ReplyDelete"Tobacco is Wacko (if you're a teen)."
But if you want to prove how mature you are...
Fear is the mind killer. I will permit my fear of the Spice Women to pass over me and through me.
ReplyDeleteMuad'Dib!
the progressive minds over at wizard probably assume that both genders use the internets, but the sweeping sexism of the print edition is mainly for the maxim set. "huhuhuh... check it out, you can see her boobies."
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I know what Resistance ad you mean. I presume you *don't* mean the Blacksite: Area 51 Ad (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xGAQ5JDvFqM).
ReplyDeleteGot a link?
Hasn’t anyone considered that the labels of the toys were clearly marked as appropriate for ‘Date Rapists’ only??
ReplyDeleteDate Rape Toys Clearly Marked!
Those Tobacco is Wacko ads were reverse-psychology. I swear to God they were.
ReplyDeleteYou let the Tobacco Industry fund the anti-smoking PSAs and they're gonna come up with something so square that it subconsciously makes smoking look cool.
There are few things I believe more strongly than that the Tobacco is Wacko ads were an experiment in reverse psychology.
Those "Fall of Man" adverts are also an experiment in seeing if they can get me to not ever read the page next to them, so that I can never look at those ads again.
Experiment? Successful.
Hey, some kids use GHB for simple recreational use, the "date rape" label is unfair!
ReplyDeleteThe worst ad I remember, just for the pure sheer EVIL of it...
ReplyDeleteThe 1940's era ad for a photograph reprinting company... WHICH PROMISED KIDS A FREE LIVE PUPPY IF THEY BOUGHT A PHOTO PACKAGE.
Not kidding. It went on and on about how much fun the puppy was, and anything along the lines of "ask your mommy and/or daddy before you send in the photos and money and GET THE FREE PUPPY" was very, very noticeably absent.
God only knows what evils were visited on poor puppies and parents and children due to that promotion...