If the topic is value for money, people say they spend five minutes reading a comic and then never look at it again.


If the topic is DRM, people insist that they want to keep every comic they buy forever with on-demand access at any time.

How can a character exist in the Marvel Universe but consider the idea of space adventures and talking raccoons to be fantasies? Somehow, Sam lives in world populated by superheroes but believes the very idea of them is completely impossible.

IGN.com review of Nova #1

This is my pet peeve for the morning. The character lives in a small town in Arizona, 2,441 miles from pretty much everything else that happens in the Marvel universe.  He’s hearing stories from his dad who’s been an alcoholic layabout for the kid’s whole life. He doesn’t disbelieve in superheroes as a concept, he disbelieves in the idea that that loser in the garage is a former member of an elite interplanetary black ops unit.

I mean, if they find incontrovertible proof that Bigfoot exists tomorrow, it’s not going to change my opinion on the Loch Ness Monster, let alone psychics or ghosts.  They’re different things.

(Anyway, not a bad comic. I’m not normally a fan of Jeph Loeb’s writing, and it’s a very decompressed story where the hero’s origin isn’t even really started by the end, but I like the character so far, and Ed McGuinness’s art is always fun.)

What’s a good way to treat depression or dementia?  Therapy?  Drugs?  How about a robotic baby seal?

Such a good short.

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The 2008 bank bailout of $750 billion was greater than all the money NASA had received in its half-century history; two years’ U.S. military spending exceeds it as well. Right now, NASA’s annual budget is half a penny on your tax dollar. For twice that—a penny on a dollar—we can transform the country from a sullen, dispirited nation, weary of economic struggle, to one where it has reclaimed its 20th century birthright to dream of tomorrow. Testimony by Neil deGrasse Tyson Before the Committee on Commerce Science & Transportation | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

We Are the Explorers (by ReelNASA)

Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. The big content companies are TERRIBLE at doing both of these things, so it’s no wonder they’re not doing so well in the current environment. And right now everyone’s fighting to control distribution channels, which is why I can’t watch Star Wars on Netflix or iTunes. It’s fine if you want to have that fight, but don’t yell and scream about how you’re losing business to piracy when your stuff isn’t even available in the box I have on top of my TV. Jonathan Coulton