Occasional Links: The Super-Poke Edition

Tubby: American Gigolo?


A Little Lulu story in which Tubby leverages his appeal to the opposite sex for material goods, and the sisters learn to get their groove back.

Also, the similarities are striking:

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Is your relationship Facebook-worthy?

"When a couple was "going steady" in the 1950s, the young man might have let his girlfriend wear his Varsity team sweater or given her his fraternity pin. But the 1960s swept aside those rituals. Now the Facebook link has become a publicly-recognized symbol of a reasonably serious intent short of being engaged or moving in together."

To poke or not to poke?

"i was hanging out up at a conference in Seattle, and all of a sudden poke wasn't this weird thing that meant i wanted to bang someone... it was like a light tap on the shoulder in the blogosphere. i started scrolling down a list of friends on my mobile phone and just poking several people at random. poke, poke, poke. and i giggled at myself. i was giddy, drunk with the power of poke!"

MySpace or Facebook?

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Comic Book Guy: Stereotype?



Cheryl starts off a debate as to whether the "comic book nerd" stereotype has any validity. (And does she get called a "bitch" for simply expressing her opinion and also happening to be a member of the double-x chromosome club? Why yes she does. Shocking...simply shocking, I say!)

"Sadly, reader-of-superhero-comics equals emotionally-stunted-fanboy to many. Normal adults enjoy their superheroes in video games, television shows and movies. Superheroes are about to have the best year ever. Readers of superhero comics? Well, they need much better PR. We aren't all Comic Book Guy! Someone needs to tell the masses that so that guys aren't afraid to leave that Infinite Crisis trade in plain sight. Or buy it in the first place."

She elaborates in the comments section of another post:

"I have to wonder how much of my own behavior is affected by that stereotype. Love & Rockets, Strangers in Paradise, DMZ and Stagger Lee are prominently displayed on my bookshelf next to ‘real’ books, but I’ve got my old X-Men and WS books tucked away in buckets from IKEA on the bottom of the floor."

And then there is the quote from me at home last weekend, reflecting not so much on the indy vs. superhero comic issue but the single-copy vs. trades:

"Honey, let's get a big box to put all the floppies in...and just keep the trades and hardcovers on the shelf. Because these comic books look nasty on the shelf."

And you know what? I stand by that. They look nasty on the shelf, all bent-up with no spines. Even Hippy McHipster can get away with reading fluff like DC's Our Worlds At War if it's in a handsomely-bound book format. But a single-issue with one of those adds for Corn Nuts on the back cover? Nerdy.

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"Would Frank Miller and Jim Lee combined make s**t?"

Two geeks read Goddamn Batman, as envisioned by Mighty God King:

"GEEK ONE: S**t yes! This s**t is a parody!
GEEK TWO: Frank Miller is feeding us s**t and making us love it!
GEEK ONE: I love reading s**t!
GEEK TWO: This is classic s**t right here!"

(via Journalista)

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Meet A Cartoonist Who Has Balls!

At Neatorama.

Note to self: if you're going to do a Google image search on the word "balls" -- be prepared. Actually, if you're going to do a search on "Supergirl," be doubly prepared.

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Video: What I like do when I'm alone and nobody is looking: