Great comic: The Science News Cycle. (thx avital)

I feel like I’ve been living under a rock, but apparently there is this comic book called Scott Pilgrim that is popular enough that it is being made into a movie with Michael Cera (here’s the trailer) and a video game. The basic plot:

Scott Pilgrim is 23 years old, living in the big city with his gay roommate, just trying to get by in this crazy world. He’s in a band. He’s lazy. He likes video games.

Scott Pilgrim likes the new girl in town, Ramona Flowers, but to win her heart, he has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Seven! Evil! Ex! Boyfriends! Lucas has muscles! Todd plays bass with his psychic powers! The Twins are twins! Matthew Patel is an Indian guy! AND MORE!

Darkly, darkly awesome: The Skull of Regret. The description of the drive-thru window. The deep-fat fryer as potential suicide implement. The pause before “ex-girlfriend.” All genius.

Pretty safe to say Kick-Ass isn’t going for a PG-13 rating! (nsfw):

(via twitch)

Happy to see I’m not the only one who hates the but look at all the snow “argument” against climate change.

Here’s a great Slowpoke strip from 2006 that is painfully relevant today.

Genius, 12-section comic, Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable, with each of the 12 sections being both hysterical and the gospel truth.

The winners of caption contest #197, plus my losing entry:

Thought I had this one. Looking at some of the others that didn’t make the cut, I just don’t know what passes for funny with the editor who picks the finalists. New gatekeeper, please!

The winners of caption contest #187, plus my losing entry:

This one stings because my entry is basically a shameless pander to what I knew they were looking for. Dreadfully conventional, and I still lost!

I didn’t realize Neil Gaiman had been picked by DC Comics to handle Batman’s final appearance in the Detective Comics monthly. I’ll have to check those out.

The winners of caption contest #183, plus my losing entry:

I liked this one because you could either read it like she put the car there as a design decision, or that their bed used to be against that wall.

The winners of caption contest #179, plus my losing entry:

Not that it would have mattered, but I don’t think I made the fact that the patient’s insurance company roughed up the doctor explicit enough.

Heavy (and welcome) dose of Far Side influence in a couple cartoons in the 2/23 issue of The New Yorker:

and…

Twitch has the Japanese Watchmen trailer and it looks tons better than any of the US trailers I’ve seen. I’m curious to see how this one survives the adaptation. I expect nothing better than a guilty pleasure, but I can hope.

First it has to get out of legal limbo, of course.

A buddy of mine just turned me on to Abstruse Goose. My favorites of the last 20:

• Lie of Omission
• ask a silly question…
• Young George
• Gift Horse
• The Purposeful Life

I feel like I’m cheating on xkcd. Ahh, that’s better.

Despite its obvious quality, I wasn’t going to link up The Onion’s Macbook Wheel report because EVERYBODY already did, but it makes for a nice two-fer with this xkcd strip.

The winners of caption contest #166, plus my losing entry:

The winners of caption contest #141, plus my losing entry:

The winners of caption contest #86, plus my losing entry (so close!):

From the most recent Coudal Partners newsletter:

Somebody once said that if you want to know if a particular cartoon came from The New Yorker magazine, all you have to do is replace the caption with the phrase "F*** Y**." If the comic still works, then it's a fair bet it came from The New Yorker.

Wow, you can make Garfield funny! Scientists still doubt it's possible to make Opus funny though. God, how I hate that strip. It's not so much that it sucks, it's that Breathed has the stature that it is allowed to suck over an entire half-page of the comics. Every weekend my Sunday morning mood gets dented because there's no way to avoid the damn thing. Even though I studiously don't read it, it's still there in my periphery, all bloated and gassy. Sure, the guy can draw, but come on!

I did used to like Bloom County though.

Some of my favorite Calvin & Hobbes strips, all in one place: the Calvin & Hobbes Snow Art Gallery.