Some excellent Prince Valiant frames for you. Click for large versions.
Behind the scenes at the Mt St Helens Vietnam Band music video shoot.
Heh heh. That human isn’t gonna make it. We’re snacks!
TK Webb – “The Devil’s A Dork (The Sea Told Me)”
Living Bridge (Compilation)
One of the songs I’d forgotten about from the excellent Living Bridge compilation from Rare Book Room, which features major artists like Deerhunter and Blood On the Wall as well as rarer stuff like Doldrums and this. It’s a jangly, easy-to-listen-to tune with great guitar work and confident vocals. My new favorite from the compilation.
Who am I to stand in the way of evolution?
A little spider was on the wall in my bathroom and, having no glass handy, I decided I should smush it. I’m not always so cruel, but I was in a hurry. Tissue in hand, I reached up to get him and at the last moment he sprang out of the way. Curses! He ran down the wall, so I tried again, but this time he zipped onto the tissue and immediately shot off on a thread, nearly landing on me. I tried to get him close to the wall to take another shot, but he pulled back up his thread and I couldn’t get the angle.
It was at this moment that I thought, wait, what the hell? This guy is amazing. He’s a better dodger than any little house spider I’ve ever seen. He’s probably going to grow up big and strong and propagate those awesome genes. He’s advancing the species! How can I stand in the way of that?!
So I carried him on his string all the way over to the window and let him go on his way. Good luck, buddy.
Top 40 worst drawings by Rob Liefeld
This is hilarious. I have a couple of these comics or have read them, and I definitely recognize Liefeld’s art and the ridiculous things his does in it.
There is in every village a torch – the teacher: and an extinguisher – the clergyman.
Victor Hugo
I just tested out the Bald Bull thing in Punch-Out described by the designer and hidden for 22 years. There it is! The flash! I’ve always been punching him on his third jump, but this is a more unambiguous cue.
Wada
This is a great opportunity, so I have something I’d like to say. In Punch-Out!!, the game gives you a lot of hints about effective timing of punches. There is a big boxer called Bald Bull in the NES version as well and a light flashes to the right in the audience when he charges. If you punch when it flashes you will land a body blow.
Tanabe
What? Really?
Wada
No one has known about that for about 22 years…
Everyone
(laughter)
Wada
I was wondering when I would have a chance to tell people that.
Iwata
You’ve been holding that information for 22 years since the release. (laughs)
In a recent interview of the creators of Punch-Out for the NES. Unbelievably, even Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata didn’t know about this little quirk. I’m totally going to check this out.
To be fair, most of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird.
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion