You do what you have to do to pay the bills. Flickr user torakamikaze suggests that Sonic may have to resort to selling off his gold rings.
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You do what you have to do to pay the bills. Flickr user torakamikaze suggests that Sonic may have to resort to selling off his gold rings.
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The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra once performed an operatic rendition of the theme music and story of Final Fantasy VI. Eliot Hagen integrated it into the video presentation of game, and the result is this amazing video. Full credits are available at the video link.
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Power Girl is very popular among both faculty and students. Once again, cartoonist Caldwell Tanner offers a set of funny cartoons, this time depicting Marvel and DC heroes in their college days. Six more at the link.
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1808189 via Nerd Bastards
Previously by Caldwell Tanner: Video Game Characters in College
Scottish DC writer Grant Morrison has some interesting observations about the social class differences between Batman and Superman:
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Bruce Wayne is a rich man. He's an artistocrat. Superman grew up as Clark Kent on a farm bailing hay, and he's got a boss that shouts at him if he's late to work. He's actually more human; Batman is the fetish fantasy psyche of the aristocrat overlord who can do anything he wants, and that's fascinating. The class difference between the two of them is important.[...]
People often forget Superman is very much a put-upon guy. Bruce has a butler, Clark has a boss
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OMG! Shatner was fooling around at a con and decided to photobomb some Trek cosplayers posting for a picture!
Well, possibly. But look at the name in the bottom left corner. It's Rachel McCauley, a professional photograher and photoshop artist.
Be assured that if The Shatner wished to photobomb you, you would be photobombed. Nothing could stop him. But I suspect that this isn't real.
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Marvel has come out with a new webseries. The Handi-Cats is about a blind, flying supercat and a bionically-enhanced disabled cat who try to correct the BP oil spill. It's based on a bestselling memoir by Gwen Cooper about a blind cat who brings meaning into Cooper's life.
http://thehandicats.com/ via Link | Image: Marvel
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"I say that we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." You know, over the years, I've found that there are very few problems for which this is not an appropriate solution.
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A long-lost scene from Return of Jedi was displayed at Star Wars Celebration V. It shows Luke tinkering with a lightsaber. Someone secretly recorded it and uploaded it to YouTube. Watch it while it's still available.
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Artist Steve Thomas made three LOTR travel posters in an Art Deco style. I'd love to see one for Mordor.
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In one particular set of Peanuts strips by Charles Schultz, Snoopy is writing a novel. In 1981, Len Wein from DC Comics took the script from these strips and turned them into a Batman comic.
For real. Click on the link to view Peanuts original and the resulting Batman comic.
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A computer animation studio called Moonlight House created this modern remix of the title song from the musical Singin' in the Rain. This time, Stormtroopers and R2D2 take the place of Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor.
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In Back to the Future II, Marty McFly purchases a sports almanac providing 50 years of sports statistics in the hope of gambling his way to wealth. He doesn't use it, but in an alternate timeline, Biff Tannen does. An infographic (excerpt above) from NFL Injury argues that the scheme wouldn't be profitable for several reasons.
http://nflinjury.com/the-mcfly-scheme-time-travel-sports-betting.html via Geek Tyrant
Matthew Johnson has a fascinating hypothesis about the Mutant Registration Acts in Marvel Comics -- a series of US laws that require mutants to submit to government oversight and monitoring. These story arcs have been seen as representative of the way that racial and ethnic minorities are sometimes treated. But Johnson thinks that there's a more everyday parallel that fits the core audience. Mutants represent teenagers:
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The X-Men series is often described as being a metaphor for the oppression of minorities, but when looked at it this way it becomes clear that the metaphor doesn’t stand up: if superhuman mutants really existed society would have a legitimate reason to fear or at least be wary of them, something that has never been true of any oppressed minority.
But if the metaphor that’s supposed to be at the heart of the series doesn’t work, why has the comic been so successful? Because the X-Men don’t represent oppressed minorities, they represent oppressed teenagers. (This may also explain why comic books about characters who are actually part of oppressed minorities generally fail to sell.) Nobody feels more persecuted than teenagers, especially the nerdy, white, middle-class teenagers who have traditionally been the main audience for comics. In the hyper-dramatic world of the teenager, breaking up with your girlfriend (or, more likely, being turned down for a date) has the same emotional impact as your fiancee being disintegrated on the Moon, and being hunted by giant robots is exactly equivalent to being told to buy something or get out.
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