World of Warcraft - Curse of the Worgen #1

World of Warcraft - Curse of the Worgen #1
Jan 2011 | 31 pages | CBR | 33.4 MB
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Kindergarten Lesson

A brilliant, funny, short article by Bill Maher can be found by clicking this link.

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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Sheena fends off a gorilla in her leopard print bathing suit on Dan Zolnerowich's cover to Sheena, Queen of the Jungle #3 (1943).

(Standard disclaimer about gorillas who attack jungle girls not really being monkeys applies.)

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Wind Spitting

(To see these cartoons bigger, click them. To find this McDonalds cartoon on fine merch, click here.)

Bizarro is brought to you today by Childhood Dreams.

Today we have two cartoons about clowns. One from now and one from 1997.

I'm one of those people who think that clowns are creepy as hell. I've never found graphic representations or photos of clowns creepy, just the live version, the person dressed like a psycho getting in your face and trying to make you laugh. Even as a child I instinctively did not trust people in costumes. Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, clowns, you name it. I couldn't help but think that if they meant me no harm they would not be concealing their identity. It's as simple as that.

Ronald McDonald is perhaps the most malevolent clown of all. The fact that the sort of worldwide cruelty and destruction that the McDonald's corporation is responsible for is represented by a clown is like something from a horror movie. They guy owns thousands of things called slaughter houses, for one thing. "Slaughter" isn't a funny word. I wont' go into a lot of detail, but the animal cruelty, environmental destruction and international health crises that are wrought by cheap hamburgers and chicken parts is a holocaust. I know it's the way the world works and it will not likely ever change, I'm just saying it sends chills down my spine.

I drew the McDonalds cartoon shortly after CHNW and I spent the night in an emergency room when she was hit by a NYC cab. Hospital ERs are not fun to draw because they are either incredibly spare and dull, like the doorway I've drawn here, or incredibly complex, like the rest of the rooms full of gadgets and equipment. It's a no-win for an artist.










"Fopah the Clown" is a weird little story about politically correct language. I don't remember why I wrote it or what I was thinking, but I've never been a fan of PC language in general. After seeing it evolve over the past 30+ years, I think it is a great way to act like we're doing something to end discrimination without really doing anything. Seems to be little more than lip service.

I could be wrong and probably am. I'm just one man spitting into the wind on a blog, as usual. Please come back and watch me spit some more next week.

Hope the rest of your weekend is like this.

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Tsar Stars

Bizarro is brought to you today by Tsars.

I've been away from the blog for a few days, I hope you missed me. I missed you in a way that can only be described as "sort of, in an abstract way."

The reason I've been missing this week was because my good friend and colleague, Wayno, was visiting from his hometown of Chugfuggit, Tennessee. We worked together, ate together, drank together, showered together (but in different bathrooms) for three days and right about now he's back in his cabin in the hills and his wife is trying to get the cigar smell out of his clothing. Hahaha. Good luck, Tiffany Chrystal.

I think most people these days spell the word, "czar," but "tsar" is perfectly acceptable and maybe older. I don't really know, but it worked better for this gag because it is a rearrangement of the word "star". I like a reality show where the losers are killed onstage. That's how I roll.

The "seeing-eye man" is a fun gag about a blind dog. Some dogs are actually blind, I used to have one myself, so I'm surprised I didn't get some hate mail from readers who found it insensitive. I have gotten a fair amount of hate mail in the past few days over a couple of other comics, which I will be sharing with you in a post in the very near future.

I got no hate mail about this last cartoon, either. I guess nobody feels sorry for museum busts, like this one of Michael Jackson. That, in itself, makes me feel sorry for them and now I'm sorry I ever did this cartoon. My sincere apologies to any and all busts who read Bizarro. I have betrayed you and I regret it. Please excuse my poor judgment, it won't happen again.

More tomorrow. We've been dumped on by a few thousand tons of snow here in Brooklyn, again. Bizarro International Headquarters is still digging its way out.

To find many fine products with these cartoons on them, just click the cartoon!

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Amazon Top 50

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


1 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth
2 (+5). Odd Is on Our Side (Kindle edition)
3 (-). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
4 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
5 (-3). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
6 (-). Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Boxset
7 (+8). Dork Diaries 2 (Kindle edition)
8 (+1). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
9 (+1). Dork Diaries (Kindle edition)
10 (+10). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books
11 (+1). Walking Dead Volume 13
12 (-4). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
13 (+1). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
14 (-9). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
15 (+2). Big Nate: From the Top
16 (+10). Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
17 (+1). V for Vendetta
18 (+23). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
19 (+10). Walking Dead Volume 12
20 (+23). The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
21 (+12). Fables Vol. 14: Witches
22 (N). Black Butler, Vol. 4
23 (+19). Superman: Earth One
24 (+8). Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl
25 (+15). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
26 (-3). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
27 (-16). Watchmen
28 (+17). Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Vol. 1 - The Journey Begins
29 (N). Avengers, Vol. 1
30 (-9). Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale
31 (+15). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 7: Twilight
32 (R). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
33 (N). Naruto, Vol. 50
34 (+5). The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
35 (-16). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 8: Last Gleaming *
36 (-12). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
37 (-24). American Born Chinese
38 (-11). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
39 (-9). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
40 (-6). The Walking Dead, Book 6
41 (-5). Batman: Year One
42 (-26). 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
43 (N). Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 24
44 (N). Highschool of the Dead, Vol. 1
45 (-23). Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe
46 (R). The Walking Dead, Book 5
47 (-22). Batman: The Killing Joke
48 (+1). Blackest Night
49 (+1). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
50 (R). Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life


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 stays on the top once again, and slips a bit more to #67 on the overall chart.

* Odd is on Our Side (Kindle Edition) moves up to #2 on the chart and is the #661 Paid book in the Kindle Store (the print edition of Odd is gone from the chart all together).

* A couple of the college books stay strong (Maus, Persepolis) while others slip, signaling the end of the start of the term.

* The story for Scott Pilgrim remains the same as last week: The box set remains strong, while individual volumes continue to be (relatively) weak, all in the bottom half of the chart.

* Three manga titles debut this week: the latest Black Butler and Naruto; and the first Highschool of the Dead volume. It's pretty rare for a first volume of a manga series to chart.

* The bottom of the top 50 chart is a relatively healthy #2,674 overall.

Blissfully Unaware...

In the last poll, you thought Nut and Poo will...

escape! (58%)
be enslaved (16%)
be saved (16%)
be separated (16%)

Good to see you want Poo to regain freedom... but is it in the cards?