FCBM4 Day 24

It's day twenty-four of the fourth annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Bill Doughty, who listed his five comics as:

1. Blue Beetle
2. All-Star Superman
3. Johnny Hiro
4. The Brave and the Bold
5. The Many Adventures of Miranda Mercury

For Bill I have the first issue of Nicc Balce's Random Encounter.

For Bill's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Iron Man ashcan.

Bill's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

Time is running out, but you can still send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
42 entries
48 free comics sent so far
7 days remaining

Let's Get Googly

Bizarro is brought to you by Hi Fli Ping Pong Ball Manufacturing Corporation of Beijing.

Has anyone every studied what percentage of ping balls purchased each year are used for things other than the actual game? How many are purchased by muppet makers? How many are dangling from the ceiling of garages to tell people when to stop their car? How many have been crushed, painted glossy black, and sold as prunes?

Italian Spiderman

As a man who is Italian and admires spiders, I must bring you this amazing film about Italian Spiderman.

Amazing Photosynth

Check out this phenomenal demonstration of new technology. This could change so many important things about visual information on the web, the mind reels.

Friday Night Fights: Little Gloomy vs. An Alien

From The Super-Scary Monster Show featuring Little Gloomy #1 (2005). Story by Landry Quinn Walker. Art by Eric Jones. (click pic for larger)

A classic? Gahg!

Theist-Man vs. Atheist-Man

Today's Bizarro is brought to you by invisible superheroes in the sky.

Judging by the emails I got on this one, it appealed to theists and atheists alike, which doesn't surprise me. Psychology studies consistently show that in virtually any situation, people (think they) see what they want/expect to see in most cases.

An atheist I heard from liked this cartoon because he thought it was comparing praying to invisible superheroes in the sky to asking a Magic Eight Ball for advice -- a Christian I heard from wanted to incorporate this cartoon in one of her lesson plans at church. I gathered her theme was about not treating God like a Magic Eight Ball.

However you look at it, humans are a superstitious species. It's what happens when you combine our form of inventive intelligence with evolution's tendancy to produce animals who see "something where there is nothing," as opposed to "nothing where there is something." For instance, it's much safer to see patterns and causes in everything than in nothing, that way you're more likely to mistake a shadow for a predator, rather than a predator for a shadow, which could prove fatal.

Just a theory, of course. It could be that an invisible superhero in the sky created everything in six days, and all we know of science is a cruel joke by His archenemy, Devil-Man.

I report, you decide.

FCBM4 Day 23

It's day twenty-three of the fourth annual YACB Free Comic Book Month!

Our next selected entry is from Jonathan Rakestraw, who listed his five comics as:

1. Wolverine
2. Deadpool
3. Justice League
4. Nextwave
5. The Punisher

I suspect that Jonathan will enjoy the first issue of the Wolverine: Soultaker mini by Akira Yoshida & Jason Nagasawa.

For Jonathan's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Iron Man ashcan.

Jonathan's comics should be in the mail within a week. Enjoy!

Time is running out, but you can still send in your entry for the YACB Free Comic Book Month; details are here.

Current FCBM Statistics:
42 entries
46 free comics sent so far
8 days remaining