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Bruce Wayne - The Road Home - Ra's al Ghul #1
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Justice League - Generation Lost #12
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Bruce Wayne The Road Home Oracle #1
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Holiday Breakdown
Bizarro is brought to you today by Favorite Holiday Memories.If you're reading this post then you, like me, survived yesterday's holiday here in the U.S. We call it Thanksgiving Day and it's a mixed bag in my book. There are things I both enjoy and despise about TGiving, which I have listed below for your future use and quick reference.
Likes:
a. Not a religious holiday. This keeps it low-key and guilt-free with no official services to attend to keep your mom from getting upset, no melodramatic speeches by TV pundits about how "our make-believe is being eroded by some other culture's make-believe".
b. Mostly just about food and who doesn't like to eat? (other than super models) Lift food to mouth, open, insert, close, chew. Any moron can do it.
c. Mindless activities like watching football on TV and taking a nap are actually an integral part of the tradition.
d. Somehow, merchants have not commandeered this holiday as they have Xmas, so gifts are not mandatory. What a money saver!
e. Miraculously, TGiving has escaped the hideous novelty songs with which Xmas is plagued for weeks. Ah, the sound of silence!
Dislikes:a. People use it to get sappy about what they're thankful for. I dislike this because I think one should be aware of these things daily. Those of us who are, don't need a national holiday to remind us of what is a fundamental part of our consciousness, and those who do need to be reminded are probably not moved in any substantive manner anyway. To me, it's like having a national holiday to remind us to brush our teeth. If you have to be reminded, it's probably too late anyway.
b. People make it religious by thanking "god" for what they have. Okay, fine, thanking the gods for food, shelter, good weather, a successful massacre of your enemy, etc. is a common human behavior that predates language and any of our modern gods, but I'd like to see us grow out of this superstition eventually. You can be thankful without being thankful to invisible magic people. This country could use a lot more rational thought and a lot less superstitious fear and persecution, God knows.
c. Americans celebrate warm and fuzzy thankfulness by wreaking a grisly holocaust on 45 million innocent birds (in a single day). I get it, it's tradition, it will never change, blah blah. But those of us who have come to see members of other species as someone instead of something lament the needless and cruel slaughter. It goes on 365 days a year, of course (300 million turkeys annually), but on TGiving the slaughter itself is celebrated as part of the experience, complete with goofy, cartoon images of the victims in pilgrim hats.
I'm sure I've missed something, but I'm still reeling from my food hangover. I ate waaaaay too much last night and won't eat again soon. In the final tally, looks like I have 5 likes and 3 dislikes, so all in all, the holiday gets a thumbs up.
Here now, from the cartoon dungeon's archives, is an old Sunday comic I did years ago. (click it to see it bigger) I went through a period around the turn of the century during which I was writing oddball children's poems for an unspecified reason. Eventually, I turned some of them into cartoons.More later, have a black, black Black Friday.
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Amazon Top 50
Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this morning. All the previous caveats apply.
1 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth
2 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
3 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books
4 (+2). Walking Dead Volume 13
5 (-). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
6 (+3). Dilbert: 2011 Day-to-Day Calendar
7 (-3). Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale
8 (-). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
9 (+7). Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Boxset
10 (-). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
11 (-4). Superman: Earth One
12 (-). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
13 (+1). Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl
14 (-3). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
15 (1). Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
16 (-3). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
17 (+6). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
18 (-). Big Nate: From the Top
19 (-2). 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
20 (-1). The Walking Dead, Book 6
21 (-). Walking Dead Volume 12
22 (-). Batman and Robin, Vol. 2: Batman vs. Robin
23 (+1). Odd Is on Our Side
24 (+1). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
25 (+9). The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
26 (-). The Walking Dead, Book 1
27 (+6). The Walking Dead Book 5
28 (-1). The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
29 (+2). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 7: Twilight
30 (+5). The Walking Dead Book 2
31 (R). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
32 (+4). V for Vendetta
33 (+6). Fables Vol. 14: Witches *
34 (R). Tales from the Crypt #8: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid
35 (-6). The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
36 (N). Dr. Horrible and Other Horrible Stories
37 (R). Blackest Night
38 (N). Dork Diaries (Kindle edition)
39 (+5). Batman: The Killing Joke
40 (R). The Walking Dead Volume 2: Miles Behind Us
41 (-21). The Complete Peanuts Boxed Set 1975-1978 (Vol. 13-14)
42 (+1). The Walking Dead Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars
43 (-5). Stephen King's N.
44 (R). Kick-Ass
45 (R). Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition)
46 (-4). The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
47 (R). The Indispensable Calvin And Hobbes
48 (R). The Walking Dead Book 3
49 (-21). X'ed Out
50 (R). Batman and Robin, Vol. 1: Batman Reborn
Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.
N = New listing appearing on list for first time
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks
Commentary:
* The Wimpy Kid holds the top 3 spots on the comics chart, but still cannot crack #1 on the overall chart; he sits at #2 behind former president Bush. (Yes, this is the same bullet point text as last week!)
* Scott Pilgrim sales stay about the same, though the boxset moves up into the top ten.
* The holiday shopping season is upon us. We're just on the cusp of it this morning, but expect to see some major changes in the chart over the next few weeks.
* The top debut this week is Dr. Horrible and Other Horrible Stories, which actually came out a few weeks ago but is just now making the top fifty. The only other debut is the kindle edition of Dork Diaries.
* The bottom of the chart is rather healthy #1,560 this week on the overall chart.
1 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth
2 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
3 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books
4 (+2). Walking Dead Volume 13
5 (-). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
6 (+3). Dilbert: 2011 Day-to-Day Calendar
7 (-3). Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale
8 (-). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
9 (+7). Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Boxset
10 (-). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
11 (-4). Superman: Earth One
12 (-). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
13 (+1). Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl
14 (-3). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
15 (1). Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
16 (-3). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
17 (+6). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
18 (-). Big Nate: From the Top
19 (-2). 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
20 (-1). The Walking Dead, Book 6
21 (-). Walking Dead Volume 12
22 (-). Batman and Robin, Vol. 2: Batman vs. Robin
23 (+1). Odd Is on Our Side
24 (+1). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
25 (+9). The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
26 (-). The Walking Dead, Book 1
27 (+6). The Walking Dead Book 5
28 (-1). The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
29 (+2). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 7: Twilight
30 (+5). The Walking Dead Book 2
31 (R). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
32 (+4). V for Vendetta
33 (+6). Fables Vol. 14: Witches *
34 (R). Tales from the Crypt #8: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid
35 (-6). The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
36 (N). Dr. Horrible and Other Horrible Stories
37 (R). Blackest Night
38 (N). Dork Diaries (Kindle edition)
39 (+5). Batman: The Killing Joke
40 (R). The Walking Dead Volume 2: Miles Behind Us
41 (-21). The Complete Peanuts Boxed Set 1975-1978 (Vol. 13-14)
42 (+1). The Walking Dead Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars
43 (-5). Stephen King's N.
44 (R). Kick-Ass
45 (R). Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition)
46 (-4). The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
47 (R). The Indispensable Calvin And Hobbes
48 (R). The Walking Dead Book 3
49 (-21). X'ed Out
50 (R). Batman and Robin, Vol. 1: Batman Reborn
Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.
N = New listing appearing on list for first time
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks
Commentary:
* The Wimpy Kid holds the top 3 spots on the comics chart, but still cannot crack #1 on the overall chart; he sits at #2 behind former president Bush. (Yes, this is the same bullet point text as last week!)
* Scott Pilgrim sales stay about the same, though the boxset moves up into the top ten.
* The holiday shopping season is upon us. We're just on the cusp of it this morning, but expect to see some major changes in the chart over the next few weeks.
* The top debut this week is Dr. Horrible and Other Horrible Stories, which actually came out a few weeks ago but is just now making the top fifty. The only other debut is the kindle edition of Dork Diaries.
* The bottom of the chart is rather healthy #1,560 this week on the overall chart.
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