Super Doomed Planet

I’ve added another new comic: Household of Dracula. You can click on the link to its permanent page, or click on “read the rest.”

David Bowie, “Starman” Everyone remembers the day the starship came to Earth. The ship had but a single pilot, and he was ancient. The product of billions of years of evolution, first natural and then self-directed, he had been driven to cross the vast gulf between the stars by an *idea*—a revelation that he knew [...]

Among the links floating around in blogdom this weekend was this great collection of bad book reviews from Amazon.com. It took me back to the days—there were three or four of them, in early 2002—in which I spent far too much time hunting down terrible reader reviews on Amazon. Most Amazon reviews are worthless; many [...]

A mysterious object found in a Davenport home turned out not to be a bomb, but a device that was supposed to scare off aliens believed to be living under the ground.: Jessica Harper of Bettendorf said she moved out of 2623 Pershing Ave., Davenport, on Sept. 29 and left behind a box containing the [...]

(Apologia: I finally finished this post late at night, with an encroaching headache. It’s probably half-baked and full of inane rambling, and I may revise it later. For now, I’m just glad I’ve finished something.) Last week, P. Z. Myers at Pharyngula pointed to an Esquire article about “Idiot America”—a term used by author Charles [...]

I’ve finally finished the comic I’ve been slogging through for the past couple of months. The quality is, I must admit, variable.

We knew the local binge drinking epidemic had gotten out of control when the pigeons started in. >Animal control officials are investigating reports of at least one dead dove and drunken pigeons in downtown Iowa City.

This post about a Justice League Thanksgiving story (found via The Comics Reporter) is the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet in weeks. The best part is the unrecognizable second-stringer hero’s earnest attempt to draw out a sulky Batman with an offer of mashed potatoes. “Can’t you let your *guard* down for a *minute?*”

You know those new-agey, feel-good stories about encounters with angels? The Daily Iowan ran one on page two last week. This one had a few extra details you don’t usually hear: > Four beers, two glasses of wine, 35 shots, and a fifth of vodka in less than two hours might translate into a rough [...]

Like on a ghost story website. The relevant part starts about halfway down the page. As a side note, this page features what must rank among the most transcendently wonderful paragraphs on the entire internet: > At the time, I lived on my own in a triple wide trailer that had apparently been home to [...]