I can't believe Greg Bear hasn't used this plot yet.

The thing is, T. rex's reason is actually the better one.

My tags kind of give away the punchline, but still, worth reading.

Perhaps if I think of it as eleven $5 Fridays...

Have I really not bookmarked this before?

May I say how much I love this, especially the _At the Mountains of Madness_ one?

I'm not sure if this would be quite so hilarious to anyone who hadn't been reading John & Belle since 2002 or so.

I was quite addicted to these as a kid, and in fact I think my parents may still have all the ones my brother and I collected...

"My new goal is to have a financial engineering [Monte Carlo simulation] blow up so bad modeling CDS portfolios that Jessica Alba needs to rush into the office in some sort of superheroine costume to save me."

You would like to read a graphic novel about Spinozism and werewolves in 18th century central Europe, wouldn't you?

"I'm defending my thesis tomorrow. I have to prepare." "Defending it from whom?"

I loved these when I was a kid.

Home of "The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage"

Perhaps NSFW, depending on the W.

"Common People", covered by Archie comics. Even funnier if you imagine Wm. Shatner doing the vocals.

"T-Rex In: Solving Problems by Declaring Parts of Your Life to be Non-Canon"

Ummm? I think I was following it up until the last two pages.

" I want Lewd vs. Prude comics. In each installment, Lewd acquires a new pornographic novel and, with child-like enthusiasm, attempts to get Prude to read it. Meanwhile, Prude is busy trying to destroy it – burn it, dynamite it, bury it, sink it beneath the waves, send it by post to Australia. But the efforts on both sides invariably cancel out. In the final panel, Prude sits down to read. Again. We could have “Lewd and Prude on Holiday”, “Lewd and Prude Go Ballooning”, “Lewd and Prude at Baffin Bay”, “Lewd and Prude in the Big City”, “Lewd and Prude at Sea”, “Lewd and Prude and the Doctor’s Orders”, “Lewd and Prude at the Opera”. ... It will be much better than “Spy vs. Spy”, because Lewd and Prude obviously have a somewhat dysfunctional, asymmetric-yet-mutual love. It’s like “Krazy Kat”, with a pornographic novel playing the role of the thrown brick."

Via absfac, whose comments I echo: "I care very little about the specific complaint re: the contemporary pop comics market but the categorization of fictional narratives for men seems astute." (Actually, I can think of "Hill"-type comics, such as Berlatsky says are missing, but I'm too embarrassed to list them, and anyway I have no idea how popular they are.)

"Did you know there's a kind of animal called 'sloths'? Pathetic."

T. rex critiques the normative desirability of Pareto optimality as a criterion for social choice and resource allocation.

Only GYWO and the Medium Lobster are adequate chroniclers of our times; and the Medium Lobster is not available in print form.

That's _really_ well-done.

The end of the age of wonder: around the beginning of adolescence.

Classic (& thanks for the reminder). An accurate depiction of my domestic life.

This one never gets old.

Frank Miller fails a test. (I liked _Ronin_, when I read it as a teenager, but otherwise, eh.)

I'd link directly to the comic, rather than the blather on this page, but can't figure out how to do so. Very nice.

Added Aug. 2009: the graphic novel is pretty good.

"Beginning as humanity discovers that the aliens they've been at war with for years have mysteriously disappeared, the book follows the survivors of a decade-long war as they try to return to something resembling normality while also wondering just what h

RMS with katana.

Because Cris is trying to drive me to suicide.

This is probably utterly meaningless to anyone who is not an American of a certain demographic bracket...

Jorge Cham gets his mind blown by monoclonal antibodies. The application is cool too.

Viriculture

or, a child's primer of yog-sothothery.

Graphic novel, adapting/parodying _The Waste Land_ as a hard-boiled detective story

"you must be looking forward to Halloween"