Being Super

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Bizarro is brought to you today by Gas Guzzlers to Die For.

Batman stag party trivia questions and answers:
1. What was Robin's real name? (A: Dick Grayson)
2. What was the most prominent feature of the 1960s TV Batman costume? (A: Adam West's package.)
3. What was Bruce Wayne's middle name? (A: I don't know for sure but it was probably Peter.)

Everyone knows that Dick Grayson was a bit of a dim bulb, otherwise how could Bruce Wayne have ever talked him into going out in public dressed like that? Especially to confront thugs? So this cartoon merely illustrates one of the many problems Batman likely had with Robin in the early days.

The second cartoon of this weekend's 3-pack is a mystery. I don't know what it means, I just thought it was funny having a gingerbread man asking for a job at a service station. It is based on a true story.

Lastly, we have a fun cartoon about aliens eating astronauts. I like to draw alien creatures, I suspect that most cartoonists do, so I like writing cartoons about them. Here is a link to my favorite alien drawing I've ever done, which I used to advertise my Bizarro Trading Cards.

By the way, you can help Batman fight crime by buying Bizarro Trading Cards. A portion of each purchase goes toward supplies needed to draw Batman fighting crime.

Amazon Top 50

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


1 (+6). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth *
2 (-1). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
3 (-1). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
4 (-). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
5 (-2). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
6 (-). Blackest Night
7 (-2). Troublemaker Book 1: Alex Barnaby Series 3
8 (+1). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
9 (-1). Green Lantern: Blackest Night
10 (+11). Walking Dead Volume 12 *
11 (+2). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
12 (+16). Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps
13 (+6). Blackest Night: Rise of the Black Lanterns
14 (+1). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
15 (-4). Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps
16 (-6). Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 1
17 (N). The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future *
18 (-4). The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Volume 40 *
19 (-7). Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 2
20 (-4). Odd Is on Our Side *
21 (+12). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
22 (+14). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
23 (+12). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
24 (-1). Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
25 (R). Batman: Year One
26 (+13). Kick-Ass
27 (-1). Watchmen
28 (+8). The Walking Dead Book 5
29 (+19). Warriors: Ravenpaw's Path #3: The Heart of a Warrior *
30 (+10). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
31 (+14). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
32 (-15). Siege
33 (N). Negima! 27
34 (+8). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
35 (R). American Born Chinese
36 (N). Tall Tales (Bone Prequel) *
37 (-13). Batwoman: Elegy
38 (R). Batman: The Killing Joke
39 (-10). V for Vendetta
40 (R). Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
41 (+5). No Future For You (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 2)
42 (-15). Invincible Iron Man Vol. 4: Stark Disassembled
43 (R). The Walking Dead, Book 2
44 (R). The Walking Dead, Book 1
45 (R). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
46 (-2). Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat
47 (R). Batman R.I.P.
48 (R). Final Crisis
49 (-29). Absolute Planetary Book Two


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:

* After one week at the top of the chart, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour surrenders it's position to Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5, which got a publicity boost this week when the title of the November release was announced. Wimpy Kid 5 currently sits at #8 on the overall bestseller chart, while Scott Pilgrim has slid to #24.

* The highest debut this week belongs to The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future, the upcoming graphic novel by the creators of Captain Underpants. Also debuting this week is the latest Negima! volume, and the new colorized scholastic edition of Bone: Tall Tales also finally creeps up onto the list.

To all my favorite followers...

Hello Mythfits readers. I want to extend a special thanks to those of you who have reached out across the magical internets and embraced Mythfits, fallen in love with Unicorn or Robot, or metaphorically squeezed Poo with your blog loving embrace. You've collectively put a big smile on my face, and I want to tell you that I appreciate it.

For instance, the MAGICAL cake above was created for Andrea Alex Kutová, a Mythfits reader living in Prague, Czech Republic. She must be a real unicorn queen, indeed. I'm blown away by the perfect likeness to Mythfit's cute little Unicorn.

The ZUPER-talented Dessy Tab, of ZUPERDZIGH, created six beautiful, handcrafted, crocheted Poo dolls for me to sell or give away here on Mythfits-comic.blogspot.com. I'm keeping one for MYSELF, but the other five are up for grabs. Any takers?

Check out all five of these beauties below in my studio...

The awesomely cool Cain family has also been a Mythfits supporter for quite a while now. Robin Cain, webcomic creater extraordinaire, even went as far as to add Poo to one of her comics (see below)! Check out more of her fun comic work at Mindzai Comics.

In fact, it seems the entire Cain clan has embraced Mythfit's stinky little Poo. Here's Robin and her family members posing with him:

This one's my personal favorite ( ^_^ )

Thanks for the smiles, and hey, take a look below. I think I spotted Poo's swirl cone sister here on the streets of NYC. Maybe they'll meet one day...

Tiny Garage

Just for fun.






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Conspiracies

Bizarro is brought to you today by Conspiracy Theories.

This cartoon got some angry letters from readers who believe that 9/11 was an inside job and felt I was making fun of them. Most of the letters were polite and chided me for being uniformed about the various holes in the "official" story and included links to prove their case. I've seen most of these sites before but viewed them again so I could be totally, totally informed.

I don't mean to insult any of you who believe this, but here is my position, for what it's worth. I have no doubt that Cheney and Bush (word order intentional) would have done such a thing if they could. But considering their utter failure at everything else they touched, I find it inconceivable that they could have pulled off a mission so huge and complex without everything going wrong. First, a lot of people would have had to be in the loop and history tells us that people are not good at keeping secrets; someone would have come forward by now with irrefutable evidence, not just conjecture. Second, you can find holes in every story, true or not. The human brain is irresistibly drawn to conspiracy theories, it's part of our evolutionary nature to study events, construct a story and draw conclusions. Different people come to different conclusions, but they can't all be true. As it turns out, the simplest explanation is usually correct. Bin Laden is the simplest explanation here, by far.

The Bush administration was clearly guilty of ignoring repeated warnings about the attack beforehand and using it as a tool to frighten the nation into attacking a country that had nothing to do with it. And we all know how well that worked out for the U.S. They used 9/11 in the most unscrupulous way imaginable to get what they had been wanting for years and that alone is enough to put them in jail forever. But I don't think they orchestrated it. I think it was Bin Laden. Just my opinion, we all have one.

As I said, most of the letters were polite but here is one that falls into some other category. I found it amusing, I hope you do, too. It appears here in its entirety, except for the signature.

THIS PAST WEEK ?NOT SO FUNNY BUT ALSO A LIE : "BUSH DIDN'T
DO 911 ... "MEANING ? HE DID , OR HE DID NOT ?AND YOU KNOW THE
DIFFERENCE >? BUSH DID NINE ELEVEN AND TWELVE AND 2 WARS ? I
REALLY LIKE THE BIZARRO COMIC , BUT I DID NOT GET THIS ONE ... SHAME ON YOU AND OUR GOVERNMENT FROM 2001 TO 2008 , AND THE LITTLE BOYS STILL COVERING IT UP ... I AM 76 YRS OLD AND DO NOT LIKE JOKES LIKE THAT . THIS /THAT WAS A" FALSE FLAG ATTACK ". MAY THE TALIBAN KICK PETRAEUS AS AND THEN YOURS .. I KNOW HEARST IS A RAG PAPER : I AM JUST ABOUT TO WRITE TO SCARPETTA,(PATRICIA CORNWELL ) PAGE 158 CHAPTER
10 ... BERGER LOOKS OUT HER WINDOW AND SEES FLIGHT 11 CRASH INTO WTC.
THEN THE SECOND PLANE HIT ... NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
FN PLANE CRASHED INTO ANY BUILDING ... CHECK OUT THE STATISTICS AT TRANSPORTATION DEPT (KNOWN HAS RITA ) DEPARTURES ,, FLIGHTS 11,175,77,
93 ? FLEW ON 9/10 , AND WERE PENCILLED IN HAS FLYING ON 9/11/2001
(MISSING THE TAIL NUMBERS AND DEPARTURE TIME ...

I responded to the other emails, but not this one. I don't actually speak this man's language and I couldn't be certain he has a translator available.

ON A DIFFERENT TOPIC:
Hey, kids. A reader just told me that somebody posted some random clips from my Baloney Show on Funny or Die. Please go to that site and vote "funny." I'm too young to die.

Thanks!

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d0d4a60502/the-bizarro-baloney-show-by-dan-piraro

A, like, awesome cartoon

Bizarro is, like, brought to you or whatever by, like, the Awesome Key.

Someone bought a color poster of this cartoon off of my Cafe Press site and I was reminded of how much I like it. Several times each week I am alarmed at how many adults, usually women, talk like goofy teenagers. I think women do it more because they can get away with "cute," childlike behavior in the workplace (because there are men who find it endearing) much longer than men can.

Anyway, I like this old cartoon and I can't stand people who talk in that clipped, post-Valley-Girl accent and fear that one day there will be 50-year-old judges who talk like that.

And now an advert: you get lots of my images on, like, a gazillion different products or whatever at Cafe Press here. It's not like I make any money from it, but I thought you might think it was awesome.

Dog God Monkey Gay

Bizarro is brought to you today by Bad Parents.

Parents aren't supposed to have favorites, but of these three cartoons, I like the personal masseuse one best. I thought of this while walking through Times Square recently when an organ grinder's monkey jumped on my back and began searching my pockets for valuables. He eventually found my wallet and opened it, but after finding nothing more valuable in it than an old bus pass, he threw it down and moved on to the next passerby. This kind of scenario is one reason I don't carry valuables. The other is that I don't have any.

My next offering is about a plant who is tired of watching "Golden Girls" reruns. For my readers who are either not acquainted with trends in the gay community or who think that homosexuality is an abomination unto the lord and don't associate with them, "Golden Girls" is an immensely popular series among American gays. Maybe elsewhere, too. Something about Bea Arthur sends them into squeals of joy. I like Bea Arthur too, although I strongly suspect I am not gay.

Finally, we have the atheist Boston Terrier. I got a lot of mail about this one, but none was from angry theists, as I suspected I might. Instead, it was all from readers who couldn't figure out what it meant. (Perhaps another reason Bizarro did poorly on a comics poll in Kansas City and subsequently canceled? Missouri is the "Show Me State" after all.) Most of them were trying to make "Boston Terrier" spell something backwards when in fact, I was just going for "dog". I chose a BT randomly, because I like to draw them. My bad, should have had the mutt on the left deliver the line.

Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday. You are always on my mind.

...Uh Oh

What does the wizard want from Poo?

According to the last poll, here's what you thought:

an ingredient (50%)

his pretty smell (40%)

a friendship (19%)

a hostage (13%)

Only future strips will reveal the true fate of Poo! Stay tuned,

and in the meantime, knock yourself out with the new poll.

Thanks for visiting!  ( '_' )

Comic-Con 2010 Pictures!

Hey IITS Readers,

Just sharing the pics we managed to snap of the customers at our Comic-Con 2010 Small Press table. Those of you who picked up something but did not get your picture taken...sorry about that, we try to get pictures of everyone but sometimes I forget to ask. Enjoy!

- Joseph

First, two bonus pics of Genevieve's art...the first is a commission done for a sweet gal named Mary and the second was done for Dan Mendoza of Zombie Tramp! Thanks, guys...Genevieve had lots of fun with both of them! =)

Update: Here's the commission Genevieve created for Nick, a long
time follower of IITS and all around nice guy. Hope ya like it, Nick!

...and here's the wonderful folks who supported IITS!

Annnd we end the post with a super coot pic of Mary and Genevieve!

Thanks everyone for making IITS at Comic-Con 2010 so much fun!