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Do not forget Michael Brown
Do not forget how the media dehumanized him and tried to justify his murder
Do not forget how peaceful protests were painted as savage riots
Do not forget police armed with military grade weapons terrorized and arrested black civilians
Do not forget Darren Wilson being awarded over $400,000 in fundraiser donations for murdering an unarmed black child
Do not forget that this system was not built to defend us, but to control us
Do not forget Ferguson
Stellar puppy is ready for a time-space adventure
#standforferguson Charity Wallpaper Set, $1+
Some of you may have been hearing about what’s going on in Ferguson, MO, a suburb of St. Louis about 20 minutes from my house.
The long and the short of it is that over the weekend, an unarmed black man named Michael Brown was killed by a police officer. Since then, things have spiraled downward, into violations of basic First Amendment rights. I could go on, but you’d likely be better served looking it up yourself.
That being said, I’m offering a charity wallpaper in order to raise funds to donate to the NAACP and ACLU, as both organizations are actively working towards finding justice both for Michael Brown and his family, as well as the greater population of Ferguson.
If you cannot donate, that’s absolutely fine, but I do ask that you try to educate yourself and others as to what’s going on in Ferguson. Tyranny is real, and it is on our soil right now.
-Yale
Evin Godzilla needs a break
Haruo Nakajima takes a break from being inside Godzilla.
Greenland
The thing about the flight back to the UK on the excellent Air New Zealand is that the toilet just behind my seating section has a low window set in it that I always forget about, and so one has the unsettling experience in the middle of the night of shambling to the toilet, initiating urination, and suffering the extremely unsettling optical illusion of pissing on Greenland.
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Justice Society Of America #6, January 1993, cover by Mike Parobeck and Mike Machlan
Robert McGinnis (via x-ray delta one)
Another issue I own. I really enjoyed the art of this series and this storyline. Sadly three years later, I walked away from Marvel and still waffle about buying their books.
But their movies... that's another story.
Avengers #318, June 1990, cover by Paul Ryan and Tom Palmer
Here’s a list of the 149 for-profit companies whose cases are already pending, including several that object to all forms of contraception. Now that the Supreme Court has sanctioned their standing to make those claims and classified the coverage requirement as a substantial burden, they only have to show the sincerity of their beliefs to win.
Anyone who says this is not about disempowering women is lying to themselves and the rest of us.
Oja Kodar and Orson Welles in F for Fake (dir. Welles, 1974)
Some of the funniest book dedications ever.
Just shy of 40, going on 10...
Batman And The Outsiders #7, February 1984, cover by Jim Aparo
Zorro #617, 1955
“You keep these kids ignorant and then suddenly they’re in a situation that they don’t even have the words for and they have no idea what to do,” she says. “They’re not taught how to ask for consent, how to give consent, how to revoke consent and stop mid-way through. They don’t know to use protection or to demand it if it’s absent, they don’t know this will spread STIs and pregnancy. They don’t know it’s not supposed to hurt. Can you believe that? So, so, so many people think that sex is supposed to hurt the partner with a vagina when they have sex for the first time. They think that’s just the way it is, that’s just how it goes. *That* is obscene to me. Enforced ignorance that inevitably results in physical and emotional damage, *that’s* obscenity.”
Rich Goldstein asked me what I consider to be obscene in his article on my work, ‘Oh Joy Sex Toy’: The Internet’s Most Radical Sex-Fueled Comic Strip (via erikamoen)
I own this issue.
Now that David Letterman is retiring, perhaps he can score a role in the next Avengers movie.