Up All Night

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I've recently finished a personal project in which I have carefully reviewed that last 35 years of my life and created a chart of the number of times I have stayed up all night and the reason why. I hope you will find it entertaining and informative.

Partying 2
Working on a deadline 27
Worrying 11
Sick 14
Talking 4
Having sex 0
Arguing 23
Tripping on recreational drugs 0
Tripping on prescription drugs 3
Reading a good book 1
Squatting with binoculars in the
bushes of a celebrity's home 0
Being brainwashed by the enemy 0
Driving to Las Vegas to bail out a
family member 4

I suspect I will lose some sleep over this list.

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this morning. All the previous caveats apply.


1 (-). Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 *
2 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
3 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
4 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
5 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid
6 (-). Kick-Ass
7 (+2). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
8 (+8). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat *
9 (-2). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
10 (-). Fables Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover
11 (+6). Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
12 (-1). Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead
13 (-5). The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11 1/2 Anniversary Edition
14 (+11). Halo: Helljumper *
15 (N). Classic G.I. Joe Volume 7
16 (+11). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
17 (+16). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
18 (+27). All Star Superman, Vol. 2
19 (N). Invincible Iron Man Omnibus, Vol. 1 *
20 (+22). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
21 (-9). Watchmen
22 (-). Batman: The Killing Joke
23 (-10). Star Wars: Legacy Volume 8 - Tatooine *
24 (R). Batman: Year One
25 (N). The Dark-Hunters, Vol. 2
26 (N). The Story of O
27 (+3). Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition)
28 (+22). New Avengers Vol. 12: Powerloss *
29 (+7). Naruto, Vol. 47
30 (+2). Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 5)
31 (-5). V for Vendetta
32 (N). Planetary Vol. 4: Spacetime Archaeology *
33 (+15). The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
34 (+9). Twelve Kingdoms, The - Hardcover Edition Volume 4: Skies of Dawn *
35 (-16). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
36 (-13). Asterios Polyp
37 (-1). Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume
38 (-14). The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
39 (-8). Tales from the Crypt #8: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid
40 (R). Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 2
41 (R). Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 1
42 (R). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
43 (R). Time of Your Life (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 4)
44 (-16). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
45 (N). Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt *
46 (-11). Bleach, Vol. 30
47 (-7). Stitches: A Memoir
48 (+1). Marvel Encyclopedia
49 (-28). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
50 (-13). The Complete Persepolis



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:

* A good deal of relative stability at the top of the chart gives way to a great deal of volatility in the middle and bottom, with several books jumping either way up or way down.

* The highest debut belongs to Classic G.I. Joe Volume 7. Volume 4 percolates just under the list at #51. I have no clue as to the sudden interest in classic GI Joe this week.

* Watchmen hits its lowest point yet since I starting tracking these charts. I suspect that it has no gone back to just being another good-selling catalog item.

contest winners...

Congratulations to this week's winners:

1st...Marcello
2nd...Megan
3...Monsterzero
















What does it mean that the top three finishers' names all start with "M"? Let's hear it from the rest of the alphabet? Are you going to take this lying down?

More hijinks tomorrow, do drop in.

Contest #20 is NOW!

FIRST PERSON TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE BELOW AND POST THE ANSWERS IN THIS POST'S COMMENTS SECTION WINS! HURRY!

RULES, ETC:
As usual, two images are posted below, one is the original cartoon, the warped image beneath it has been changed in 15 ways. Your mission, if you are the disco royalty that I think you are, is to find those differences.

1. There are 15 differences between the two cartoons.
2. NONE of the differences have to do with the warped nature of the second image.
3. ALL of the differences are something missing, added, or moved, not just "bent" from the distortion. The differences will not be too subtle, so once you spot one you should be relatively certain you've found it. (As opposed to something like, "Is the hat on this one is a shade lighter than the other one? Hmmm.")
4. FIRST PERSON to correctly list the 15 differences in the comments section of the post wins 4 packs of Bizarro Trading Cards, mailed by me personally from Bizarro International Headquarters in Brooklyn. I'll even lick the stamp, unless it's self adhesive. SECOND AND THIRD persons with correct answers will each get 2 packs of Bizarro Trading Cards!
5. Put your email address on your comment so I can contact you if you win. I won't post it or keep it or file it or sell it or mount a Broadway musical about it.
6. If you live outside the U.S., I may not be able to send you a prize. Depends. Canada is probably fine, Saudia Arabia, probably not.

Click on the image below to ENLARGE and PLAY!

Graphic Novels Panel: March 16

CONTEST #20 LATER TODAY

A new seek-n-find-puzzler-brain-teaser-contest-game will be posted today at 6pm NYC time. First person to solve it will win a prize. Not sure what yet, maybe a little cartoon drawing by my own hand, made especially for the winner. For a glimpse of a past contest, click this, daddio.

Regular daily cartoon post to come shortly.

Probing for Pasta

Bizarro is brought to you today by Chick Magnets.
I got a lot of positive mail about this cartoon, all of it from men saying they found this cartoon especially meaningful because the primary female in their life routinely behaves this way.

It's not politically correct to suggest differences in the behavior of men verses women, but I don't follow those rules because I think there are plenty of innate differences in the behavior of men and women and it isn't about superiority or inferiority, it's about evolutionary advantage. That said, it has been my experience that women are much more guilty of this kind of ordering than are men. That's not backed up by a scientific study or a national poll, I'm just citing several decades of personal experience. I can't think of an evolutionary advantage to it just now, but given enough time, I might be able to make something up.

My own CHNW does not do this very often but many of our female friends do. Three that I can think of off the top of my head are so bad about this that they seem dangerously close to invading the kitchen and supervising their meal. I have no doubt that they have consumed significantly more cook's saliva than those of us who can stick to a menu. As a vegan, I often will say "without cheese," but that's usually the extent of it. I'm hoping that isn't enough to raise the chef's ire.

On a different note, I Tweeted the picture below last week and a lot of people liked it, so I'll share it here with you. I took this shot off of my TV screen, it is of a man who was weighing in about the U.S.A. vs. Canada, gold medal men's hockey match. I think he's the pope of Canada.