The Oral History of the Scrapped 'Swamp Thing' Story 40 Years in the Making 40 years ago, Swamp Thing was meant to meet Jesus. Then DC backed out. This is Rick Veitch's story of how it happened—and why it's finally being resurrected this month.

“Welcome to the greatest clusterfuck in comics history…”

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A black and white photo of Boris Karloff, shirtless, in full Frankenstein's monster makeup, drinking a cup of tea.

Love this photo of Karloff relaxing during FRANKENSTEIN. "Why don't you put down the torches and pitchforks and have a nice cup of tea?"

Everyone: WHY DO SUCH TERRIBLE THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO KENNEDYS

Kennedys: [constantly invade Cuba, drive interns off bridges, cut penises off raccoons, etc.]

Solid pink background, 1970s era Swamp Thing smashes wood or a rock with a punch and a "KRAKSH" sound effect and thinks, "DAMN YOU, DEATH!"

A demon in a shreaded shirt. His skin is lumpy and inhuman. White light emanates from where his eyes should be. His long, sharp teeth are on the outside of his mouth. a gnarled long finger nailed left hands is head in front of him for emphasis as he says he hisses, "I wass worsshipped ass a GOD in thosse dayss..."

Thanks for enlightening me.

pardon my English ignorance but are Yorp a thing in Scotland?That said, not surprised they are collapsing.

Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

CHARLES MOORE NOTEBOOK You often hear of people being "trapped in poverty", but it is also possible to be trapped in wealth. This is David Cameron's fate.

Happy tenth anniversary to this absolute masterpiece of an opening paragraph in the Daily Telegraph.

"We tried trickle-down economics and it just didn't work!" they wailed, "Why must we have so much money?"

(fake) Tom Scott video thumbnail featuring 1973's The Wicker Man. "Can this ritual bring their apples back?" I will be blocking anyone who makes an "oh god the bees" reference, that is a different movie not worthy of discussion.

"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting."

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

In his grave at Golgotha, Lord Jesus waits dreaming

Joe Don Baker! No!

Princess Anne meeting the King’s Royal Hussars at Salisbury Plain, wearing a camouflage jacket, scarf and shades

Christopher Walken in Plots with a View aka Undertaking Betty (2002) wearing a beige jacket, scarf, shades and smoking a cigar

Princess Anne continues to merge with the Christopher Walken meme

comic with a doctor or nurse talking to a man in a gown on the exam table and taking his blood pressure "now that you're semi nude under garish lighting with a total stranger in an environment synonymous with illness and death, let's take your blood pressure to see if it's normal.'

Artist: Tom Toro

The Spectator: In praise of the gilet.

If there’s one thing I have learned in this life, it’s that The Spectator is wrong about absolutely everything.

jesus christ dude why the fuck do you have so many credit cards

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951).[2] The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel". In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

The original Belinda Blurb

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

[Scene is a TV news DEBATE FORMAT like Newsnight or Laura K. In the studio, NIGEL FARAGE is a guest on one side, and the GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND is the other guest.] 1 FARAGE: It's simply outrageous! 2 FARAGE: Replacing Sir Winston Churchill on the £5 note with a badger is woke madness. 3 BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR: Mr Farage, I can assure you that I and my colleagues at the Bank of England have listened to your concerns, 4 GOVERNOR: And we have gone to great length to ensure that the badger is, in fact... 5 GOVERNOR: ...Anti-woke. [The £5 note appears on the screen behind him. It shows a badger, with a black military cap on its head - looking suspiciously like a Nazi SS officer's cap.] 6 [Beat of Nigel Farage reacting silently to the image on screen] 7 FARAGE: The badger is anti-woke. 8 GOVERNOR: Indeed! [Pointing at the design on the screen] If you look down the bottom we've included a quote from him... 9 [Close up of the quote at the bottom of the new £5 note, which reads]: "It's not racist to be concerned about immigration, Carol" - The Anti-Woke Badger 10 FARAGE: The badger... said that? GOVERNOR: It's a comment he posted on Facebook. 11 FARAGE: Well he's quite right! It's not - 12 [Farage pauses again, distracted by the image on the screen] 13 FARAGE: What's with the hat? GOVERNOR: He's into history. [ends]

Scans of Alan Moore's Scripts for Big Numbers #1 and #2

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THE POWER FANTASY VOL 3: THE END OF HISTORY
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The first page of Jimmy con Carnage, a Marvel DC crossover story written by Matt Fraction, drawn by me with valuable background assistance by Tom Rogers, color by Nathan Fairbairn, and lettering by Clayton Cowles.

Jimmy con Carnage!

Galactus, from 1969’s The Mighty Thor, by Jack Kirby, Vince Colletta, Stan Lee & Sam Rosen.

A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas An overview of chopsticks gaffes that are best avoided when eating in Japan.

A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas

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in which we plunge back into the very dawn hours of manga on the American market, with a look at the first printing of one of the most influential series in Japanese history, in flipped pamphlet form at the high-water mark of the black & white explosion

One of my favourite drawings that Jon Morris ever did.

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

Happy 75th birthday, Dennis the Menace!

The enemy of the good fried chicken.