This week’s new comic is looking for love in all the wrong places.
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Measuring up
This week’s new comic pines for the metric system.
Tasty, tasty comic….
Going topical again for this week’s comic. If you’re not familiar with Paul the Psychic Octopus, this article gives a good summary.
Squamous and Rugose
I suppose it could be worse…
Solo Duo
Oh, fan fiction! Is there nothing you can’t do?
The Man Who Knew Too Much
First off, I should point out that this book has NOTHING to do with the two Alfred Hitchcock movies of the same name (1934 with Peter Lorre and 1956 with Jimmy Stewart). They just happen to share the same name.
In 1922, G. K. Chesterton took a break from his successful series of “Father Brown” detective stories to write a series of eight connected mysteries featuring a young writer named Harold Marsh and a cynical older detective named Horne Fisher. The connecting feature of each of the stories is that, for each of the crimes committed, placing the blame on the actual criminal would cause more harm than good.
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Redesigned with pants
A slightly topical comic this week. In case you hadn’t heard the news, Wonder Woman has had her costume redesigned with pants.