Lettuce take a break from reading old comics of mine and learn, scientifically, why exactly it is that the Unicorn Express Delivery Services can run infinitely long on rainbow farts.
I hung some prisms in my windows last weekend, and in doing so discovered an essential truth: everyone needs more rainbows in their life.
God’s promises abound.
I sense a theme…
Did you laff? I hope so.
It’s always more fun when you laff.
EXO vocalist Chen (Kim Jong Dae) is coming out with a solo album this April.
It’s about time.
“Nosedive,” his collaboration with Dynamic Duo, was my favorite song of 2017.
“Lights Out,” the song he wrote on EXO’s winter album Universe, is a beautiful and moving endcap to a day. And like I wished in that past review, I’m glad to see that we get more of singer/songwriter Chen.
The man knows how to communicate through song.
I’m excited to see how this album shapes up, especially with the title “April, and a Flower” with that promo image. (Check the strategically placed lens flare.)
The moodiness of the image (love all the noise from the ISO) and the poetic treatment of the text in this teaser give me hope that this won’t be a purely saccharine spring ballad release.
But we won’t know for another week.
One thing the k-pop industry does right: sweet anticipation.
Back in the day, I took a class on comics. Homework was creating our own comics. It was pretty fun.
At the time, I worked at a job that involved mailing a lot of things, cranky customers, and a lot of time on my hands to think up ridiculous scenarios like this one.
A unicorn delivery service—why not?
Slightly goofy and a little bit absurd. These still make me chuckle.
Starting to feel meme energy again.
Maybe it’s AOC. She certainly sparked a fire.
Maybe it’s the return of characters from the past, like Baked Alaska here.
Oh look it’s Sam Hyde
Maybe it’s the steam that rolls off the internet when Trump retweets a meme.
Or maybe it’s just confirmation bias.
Artist: Owen Cyclops
But when I see seeds that were planted by certain memelords years ago grow into might, towering, fake-news oak trees,
I look at the Accelerationists, and think
“What if they were right?”
Hellboy is my second favorite comic in the entire world (after Tintin).
Mike Mignola’s art is a large part of the reason why.
Detail from the cover of Hellboy covers
This week, Dark Horse Comics announced a forthcoming book of Hellboy covers (which happens to have a beautiful cover itself).
Mignola’s art style perfectly compliments the tone of the comic—any Hellboy that’s not drawn by him feels less like Hellboy—and I’m looking forward to this.
The interplay of light and dark is just perfect.
I haven’t thought about this photo in months. Maybe years. It’s hard to keep track at this point. I don’t remember what crisis brought this photo into being. There have been too many since then, and they keep coming faster and faster.
What I do remember is how this photo—like some of the other gems from the 2016-2018 period, so concisely sums up our situation.
It’s gotta be the smirk.
The attitudes, the antagonist and protagonist (which is which?), the bystanders, all wrapped up into an incredibly dense visual package. One that’s blessedly free of corporate logos with a cohesive color palette.
I’m in a fit of nostalgia tonight, nostalgia for the meme wars of 2016. When the fight seemed winnable. When the memes were actually funny. When the conflict was somehow still in meme-land and not something that I feel the need to prepare for.
For the longest time I’ve known that if I were ever to write songs, they would be lamentations. I could never write angry songs—that’s not my mode of being. But lamentations, when there is so much beauty in the world?
The older I get the more I know why. The conflict—the war—is already around us. We just can’t see it. We’re in a fog of our own making, waiting for the spark that will explode the gas so that we can see again.
I know that we should not give in to despair, but dang sometimes it’s hard to keep my chin up.
Just when you thought he couldn’t look even more like an anime character…
Taeyong of NCT at the 2019 Idol Star Athletic Championship
He goes and matches himself to the field and the NCT lightstick. SMH.
My eyes are happy to look at the reds and greens and neon yellows, all nicely saturated and balanced. Even the vaguely repeating stripes of the track and his tracksuit scream harmony. This picture is so complete. There’s nothing superfluous or distracting, simply great content. And you can imagine him skipping along, hair bouncing.
Taeyong has long been known for looking like an anime character. His bleach-white hair in NCT’s debut video (“The Seventh Sense“) started comparisons to the character Jack Frost. Taeyong responded by dressing as Jack Frost for SM Entertainment’s annual Halloween party. The next year, he went as a Cardcaptor Sakura character.
Gotta love a guy who knows his strengths and plays to them.
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