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Top 5: Superhero Funnybooks
(…That Are Actually Funny)

  By Ju-osh M. • February 17, 2015 , ,

37The term ‘funnybook’ is a holdover from a bygone era. An era when people still used the word ‘bygone’ and bought comic books that aimed to tickle their funny-bone instead of firing off some weird, alpha-male, wish fulfillment synapses in the pleasure centers of their brain.

Ah, but even in today’s grim ‘n’ gritty world of pseudo-realistic superhero comics there still exist a few books that aspire to be silly. There aren’t many (and they never last long), but they’re out there: Honest-to-goodness, capital-F Funnybooks — just like Grandma used to read! Listed below are five of my favorites.
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Top 5: Creepiest Walk-Around Characters At Disneyland/Walt Disney World

  By Ju-osh M. • January 7, 2015 ,

9We all have a pic or two of ourselves posing with a Disney walk-around character. Maybe you were an adult on your first trip to Walt Disney World, or perhaps you were a child visiting Mickey and Minnie ‘where they live’ at Disneyland. Either way, the experience was a right-of-passage of sorts, and one you felt was worth preserving.

But there’s a second set of pictures hidden away in the scrapbooks and smart phones of some Disney fans. These photos forgo sentimental selfies in favor of the hideous, the nightmarish and the truly terrifying walk-around characters. Listed below are the worst of the worst. Continue reading

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Recommended Listening: DANGERDOOM

  By Ju-osh M. • June 5, 2014 , ,


DANGERDOOM’s 2005 album, The Mouse and the Mask, is an amazing example of advertising-as-art. Created by two of music’s more idiosyncratic artists — producer Dangermouse and rapper MF DOOM — it simultaneously served as an extended ad for Cartoon Network’s mid-2000s programming and a truly great rap record. Continue reading

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Recommended Viewing:
Friz Freleng’s ‘You Ought To Be In Pictures’

  By Ju-osh M. • May 15, 2014 ,

leon-and-porky-545Fans of Who Framed Roger Rabbit will LOVE this 1940 Warner Bros. live-action/animation hybrid featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. Like Roger Rabbit, You Ought to Be in Pictures revolves around classic cartoon characters and their (mis)adventures in Hollywood. Only, where Roger Rabbit kicks off with a murder, You Ought to Be in Pictures begins with an act of career suicide!

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All-Time Favorites: Genshiken

  By Ju-osh M. • March 26, 2014 , ,

97Shimoku Kio’s Genshiken is one of my all-time favorite comedy comics. It’s like a Robert Altman remake of The Breakfast Club, only instead of high school students in Saturday detention, it’s about college kids in an extracurricular otaku club.

Genshiken‘s large cast of characters comprises pretty much every factor of nerdom, from the geek chic to the geek elite to those unapologetically un-hip nerds who take pride in their outsider status. Reading their rambling conversations about comics, cartoons, cosplay and love (lots and LOTS about love!) is often as hilarious as it is cringe-worthy. Hilarious, because most comics/cartoons fans have had similar discussions. Cringe-worthy, because…do I really sound like that?! Continue reading

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Top 5: Sappy Spider-Man Comics

  By Ju-osh M. • February 14, 2014 ,

1212121Spider-Man has always had girl troubles. From his first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 to whatever movie Marvel is releasing this year, the wisecracking web-head has rarely been lucky when it comes to love. Oh, sure, he’s had girlfriends. He’s even been married. But each and every affair inevitably ended in disaster. Death, dumping, a Marvel mandated mind-wipe — the deeper the love, the more messed-up the break-up. But does Spider-Man allow any of that to dim his dream of true love? Hells no. Skip ahead a few issues, and a new gal walks through Spidey’s door (or flies past his window…or punches him in the face while fleeing the scene of a crime…) and his lower half’s spider-sense starts tingling once more. Oh, comics. Ah, l’amour!

Listed below are my five favorite Spider-Man love stories. Some are silly, some are somber. All of ‘em are all-caps ROMANTIC.

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Top 5: Most Disturbing Disney Toys

  By Ju-osh M. • December 11, 2013 ,

1Christmas is just around the corner. You’re struggling to find the perfect presents for the folks on your list. Loved ones are easy. You could probably pick a hundred ‘perfect presents’ for them. But what about the folks whose names are way, way down at the bottom of your list? The co-workers you can’t stand? The family members you’ve been damned to interacting with for the rest of your life? The filthy next-door neighbor you know is going to give you a zip-lock bag full of homemade cookies that you wouldn’t even eat as part of a suicide pact? Buying for them is HARD.

No longer!

Skunk & Burning Tires has put together a list of the Top 5 Most Disturbing Disney Toys. These totems to tastelessness are not only good for a cheap laugh, they make the perfect passive-aggressive present for those folks you’re only gifting out of guilt.

 

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Top 5: Disney/Horror Mash-Ups

  By Ju-osh M. • October 31, 2013 ,

aaIt’s Halloween! Time for costumes and candy and killing time at work by watching horror movie mash-ups. Oh, and have I got a creepy collection to share with YOU.

Scared? You needn’t be. I’d never hurt someone as sweet and innocent as you. You can relax — really. This is going to be fun. Now I want you to sit back in your ergonomic office chair, pull out that bag of last year’s candy corns, and enjoy these five spine-tingling Disney/horror blends…

IF YOU DARE!!!

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Top 5: Comics That Take Place On Halloween

  By Ju-osh M. • October 22, 2013 ,

0One of my favorite things about the holidays is digging through my comics, finding the PERFECT stories to match the merriment. While the St. Patrick’s Day pickings can be a li’l paltry, Halloween never fails to provide. Listed below are my Top 5 comics that take place on Halloween. If you have any others that you’d like to recommend, feel free to share ‘em in the comments section. I’m always looking for more!

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All-Time Favorites: Lilo & Stitch

  By Ju-osh M. • October 18, 2013 , ,

ouchIt’s a silly, little Disney cartoon about an alien whose spaceship crash lands in Hawaii. So why does it reduce me to a blubbering mess of snot and tears every time I watch it?

Oh, yeah. Cuz it’s also a HEARTBREAKING ODE to the FRAGILITY OF FAMILY and one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL ANIMATED FILMS ever produced.

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