Good Morning!

Another day in the "land of the free"...

Of course, these days when they talk "Freedom" in the circles of power, they mean it in the same way that Slave Traders used the term when they spoke of abolition as a threat to their freedom.

And you better look close at who's filling in the other side of that equation.

Anyway...

The inner hermit has been rising up with the internet machine issues and actively rebelling against a quick fix. It's even dragged me to spend days without connecting to the net at all. When's the last time you did that?

And it's been odd when i am online since i'm booting this system from a USB stick. All my normal browser info is absent - like bookmarks. How well could you get around these days if you had to type in the URL for every location you want to visit? How many could you  recall properly?

And - DAMN! The default browser on the stick doesn't have add-ons, like AdBlocker. At least half of the sites visited got shut down within seconds as being completely unusable in the raw. That sure helps cut down on the internet time - i'm simply not enough of a submissive bitch to stay on so many of those sites. Do people actually visit more than once?

Perhaps the worst are the ones who seem  to use high school interns to design their dynamic layouts. Ads with different dimension load and the page shuffles, moving the point you're reading elsewhere - go find it, bitch!
Seriously? They put that up on the web and they're not so embarrassed that they immediately pulled it down to avoid the shame?

Or do the site owners only visit with their AdBlock turned on, so they have no clue how broken their own pages are?

ANYWAY (again) ...
The net sure works hard to please my inner hermit these days. They give it lots of reasons to stay offline.

On the comics front, i've been excited about the idea of Probably The Best Superhero Comic Book In The Universe being in development for an animated series. Even though it was published after the big two pushed me out of the comic book market, i still managed to read the first 100 issues. Now i've gone back to re-read them and catch up on the remaining almost 50 issues that i missed. And along the way i discovered that Marvel Team-Up he did with Spider-Man!

I wonder if there are other appearances i missed?

You're all excited for Invincible, too - right?
Or do you just love The Walking Dead?
(They're both written by Robert Kirkman)

Let's go ahead and try to add a few covers here. Maybe the system will be nice and not fight back over just 3 images...


The first cover of Invincible was quite unassuming in its way, with a sweet little teaser line - 

Girls, acne, homework, super-villains.

When you're a teenager, it helps to be

INVINCIBLE

The book hit the ground running with a clear vision and a deep world surrounding our hero. A dozen and a half issues in, they boasted a new tagline the likes of which we hadn't seen since the glory days of Lee & Kirby with their World's Greatest Comics Magazine blurb on the Fantastic Four. And like that old classic, the material under the covers made solid arguments to support their claim of  Probably The Best Superhero Comic Book In The Universe -

I tend to assume that most comic fans are already well familiar with, and have read the run of, Invincible. If not, with the series now going into production, it might be a good time to check and see why so many folks loved this new hero...

There - see?
I managed to drag the brain back around to comics.

I'll see if we can't coax it to do some regular comics & media posts. Maybe i can trick it into watching the sequel to Viy and let you know how that worked out...

stuff by -3-, covers by Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley from Invincible #s 1, 18, & 42 (2003, 2005, 2007)

Back In The USSA

Somebody's been working very hard to get that Dictator's Military Parade he wanted...

Remember way back when we had a government?
Count the felons these days and you'll find we now have a criminal cartel instead.

Remember way back when you could respect the Republicans* even if you didn't agree with them? Back before they openly embraced Facism? (RINO = Republican who doesn't goosestep in proper formation) Back before they became so detached from the real world that they started confusing a Pro-Fact bias with Anti-Conservative?

Remember back when factual reality had value? Back when we were actually capable of solving problems? Now we can't even honestly identify them; too busy warping reality to fit political delusions. 

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*(I know some will start thinking "HEY! I'm a Republican and I..."
Let me stop you there. No - you're not. That's a control mechanism.
Unless you're an office holder or policy maker, you're not Republican/Democrat/Whatever. 
You're a Voter.  The mark. The rube. The ones they spend millions upon millions of dollars figuring out what to say to get you to march along with them. They get you to say/think you're whatever so you won't have to think any more.
And at that point, you're not really Republican or Democrat or whatever, either.
You're just their bitch.)

stuff by -3- (2020)

Fake President, Real Whining

System still crippled by the OS thinking it knows more than the user. An all too often occurring flaw these days. (And all too related to the material below) Trying to deal with multi-image posts as normal isn't viable currently. So let's try some more topical, single-image postings, shall we?

Reality keeps creeping up on Fake President. It must be getting hard to keep that bubble that isolates him from the world in which the rest of us live from popping. And that desperation shows more day by day. Like his ongoing rantings already declaring that the upcoming election is obviously going to be Fake because he's in danger of losing. Badly.

So, as usual, factual reality is his enemy...

Hmm...
Y'know - "Bubble boy" might be a fairly apt nickname for our Fake Pres, eh?

stuff by -3- (2020)

Is She Stupid Or Evil?

As the post line says, is this woman Stupid or Evil?

The masks are to protect other people from the wearer's exhalations. This has been said over and over and over again.

So is this alleged person just outright stupid? Or is she just evil and does realize that, despite the wording, what her sign really says is "YOUR Body, MY Choice"?

There are many ways one could protest wearing masks, but regardless of whether she is Stupid or Evil, this method of protest is Both. And a fair summary of why this country is in a prolonged state of collapse.

In related news, our Fake President will be sending troops to the beaches with bombs and flamethrowers to heroically fight off the evil tides invading our shores. 

Idiocracy by Fake President (half a year of damage remaining)

Let's Pretend I Did Social Media

Is this less than the twitter limit?:

Despite every president before him managing it, Trump's lawyer's argued he was Too Weak to handle the 'distraction' of an investigation. The Supreme Court agreed.

 
In no great surprise, the Supreme Court handed down yet another decision that proclaims the USA has always done things wrong - we should be doing things more the way the Soviets and Nazis did it.

The latest ruling declares that the President is above the law while he's in office. He won the country fair and square <sic>, so now it's his.

And what was the legal argument presented by our Fake President's lawyers that reversed over 200 years of precedent? 

Essentially, that despite every President before him operating under those rules, Fake Pres is just too weak to cope and would be distracted from the job that he can't handle even under normal circumstances.

("where's my Mommy?")

Weak. Sad.

What a legacy.

epic failure by Fake Pres (every moment of his life)

Our Flibbertigibbet Brummagem Snollygoster Fake President

As we all watch the fiasco of what happens when Fake President meets Real Crisis, a lot of us are running out of things to call the Twitter Twit. Sure, a lot of newer words like 'fucktard' might be more worthy than he is, but those really belong to the kids, don't they? What about us oldsters trapped in his clown horror show?

After all, you may have noticed that pretty much the only time i use his name is when referring to the Trump Flu. This isn't a "he who must not be named" kind of situation. It's most definitely a "it isn't worthy of a name" and is way too in love with it. Trump Flu is the one place he's earned his name, so i say let's let him have that one. 
That leaves us wondering how to refer to the critter*?

Might i offer a few classic suggestions?


FLIBBERTIGIBBET
A person who is regarded as silly, flighty, irresponsible. Especially one prone to excessive talking.

BRUMMAGEM
Something cheap and showy; especially used referring to cheap, gaudy jewelry.

SNOLLYGOSTER
Someone self-serving, especially a politician, whose actions are motivated by self-interest rather than higher principles.

Well, i suppose we should have some imagery in here, should we not?
Let's see...

How about a little tale i'd call "Mistakes Were Made" -

Apologies to Rowley, Prodes, and Quatermouse.

Now, if you'll pardon me, i'm off to indulge in a bit of my usual gadzookery* in other arenas...

page art from Animal Weirdness #1 by Geoff Rowley and Prodes, modification and ramble by -3- (1974, 2020)

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*(If you want to argue that he's vegetable or mineral instead, i won't put up a tough fight)

**(GADZOOKERY
The use of archaic words or expressions.)