After all that talk of how best to convey dynamic anatomy through the flexible spine we’ve been tagging some further examples as we make our daily surf, and we think we’ve found a pose that exhibits many of the same qualities. It’s certainly dynamic and very flexible. It’s also maybe a little NSFW depending on where you W, so proceed with care.
Bonus: This should settle the shorts under the skirt thing, too!
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While going around the internet over just the last 24 hours, the following images turned up, all fine examples of the “Brokeback” aka “Show your ass AND your tits” pose, which all male fantasy comics women are required to master. We know artists have a hard time mastering this anatomy-defying pose, since unless you are a member of Cirque Du Soleil it’s actually impossible to turn your ass and your tits in the same direction. But they will try, oh yes, they will try, although the manga example has a rather disturbing addition in the downstairs area that looks like a testicle or a swollen taint or…something.
Luckily, we have comics to rectify that human design flaw.
Darn. This seems like such a paltry tribute to the Brokeback Pose. We encourage readers to send in more tributes. Let’s give the classic the respect it deserves!
I think this is it. Via Engrishfunny.com
Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer
“As evidenced by his epic run on Swamp Thing #21–64, Moore’s deft hand with both sociopolitical commentary and metaphysical violence makes him an ideal choice to chronicle my time in office,”
Archie! You SH*T!!!
Since the world first found out Archie was getting married, fans everywhere hoped Betty would be the bride. But those fans discovered quickly Archie Andrews chose Veronica Lodge over Betty Cooper and they were angry! They felt Archie had made the wrong choice, and they are very vocal about it! On television, in the newspapers, and on blogs all over the internet, fans loudly rejected Archie’s choice.
Seth — yes, THAT Seth — has designed a parade float of the Wine King for the Niagara Arts Centre. Can we somehow get this into the Tournament of Roses parade? The petition begins NOW.
Seriously.
Think about it a little while.
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If you guessed the upcoming line of comics conventions run by Gareb Shamus/Wizard, you were correct. Of course, nothing in the logo would indicate that this is not, say, the New York Comic-Con. And considering that the San Diego Comic-Con International technically owns the trademark on the term “Comic- con”….well, you might be confused. And that might just be the point.
Parent Dish reports on a Daily Mail story about a dad who suddenly realized that Maoam’s candy wrappers were filthy as hell:
“The lemon and lime are locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter,” the chap said. “The lime, whom I assume to be the gentleman in this coupling, has a particularly lurid expression on his face.”
The British have a particularly proud tradition where sweets are concerned, and a penchant for what many would call “cheeky” slogans and packaging — the Yorkie bar, for instance, is famously “not for girls,” because presumably its massive wad of chocolate is something no woman could withstand — so this colorful packaging would seem to be a bit tongue in cheek. That said…it is also, obviously, the official candy of “Pastilles Gone Wild!!!” PR as a Haribo spokesman said, ‘This jovial MAOAM man is very popular with fans, both young and old.’
[Thanks to Steven Stahl for the link.]
One can only guess at what the occasion for this LIFE Magazine photo shoot was, but it must have been long remembered in the halls of NCS. Apparently a bunch of strip cartoonists were brought out to draw on the bathing suits of a bunch of comely young models. All that’s missing is a bunch of those cartoon sweat drops (”plewds”) surrounding the heads of these guys as they try to get a ballpoint pen to draw over the nylon-encased curves of the models’ “hites.”
Behold, Ernie Bushmiller.
Oh, Alfred Andriola! You didn’t!!
Via an unnamed correspondent, apparently the Becky Cloonan/Amy Reeder Hadley feud errupted in VIOLENCE over the weekend. Sad that comics have come to this.
While offline (randomly) for two days, we missed the biggest story ever on Twitter, #amazonfail, which is, depending on who you listen to, a technical “glitch” or a incredibly clumsy attempt on Amazon’s part to remove potentially “offensive” material, which ended up being mostly gay-themed literature.
As covered by every media outlet in existence, the problems began Sunday when people noticed that Amazon had removed the sales rankings from gay- and lesbian-themed books. Since the sales rankings are the method by which books go into the search function, this meant that tons of books — from prize-winning classics by James Baldwin, to Heather has Two Mommies — were suddenly unavailable on Amazon. The NY Times has a detailed report on the whole story, and Amazon’s new explanation that it was “an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error” that had caused 50,00 books — not just GLBT books, to be removed.
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According to ICv2, you will be able to suck a Slurpee from Wolverine after all, as 7-Eleven plans a big Wolverine movie tie-in.
The Collectible Slurpee Straws come with a removable figure and a base on which to display it, while the refillable Wolverine Coffee Mug features Wolverine’s trademark triple claw slash mark. The 7-Eleven stores are also promoting the X-Men Origins: Wolverine video game, which debuts on May 1st, the same day the movie opens. 7-Eleven customers can pre-book either Xbox 360 or PS3 versions of the game with just a $5 deposit.
Following the excitement last week when a set of jury-rigged lettered xeroxes of BIG NUMBERS #3 hit the web, it looks like the legendary series, created by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz, will finally be completed. Former publisher Kevin Eastman has announced that he’s received Moore’s blessing to publish a revamped version of the ten uncompleted issues. “The take is a little different than Alan’s would have been, but we all felt that just getting something out there that could be collected was the main thing,” Eastman told the Beat.
The artist will be Simon Bisley. “Simon has the vision and imagination to complete this incredible project,” said Eastman. “More importantly, there’s absolutely no danger that he will go berserk just from working on the project, since that ship sailed long ago.”
Moore left notes on how the series would progress, as well as a complete script to issue #4. Picking up the writing reins will be Oscar® winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who co-produced CONSTANTINE, based on a character created by Moore. Goldsman has incredible reverence for Moore’s work, but even more importantly, since writing the screenplays for BATMAN FOREVER and BATMAN & ROBIN back in the ’90s, he’s been itching to try his hand at writing an actual comic book. Joining a growing number of screenwriters who gravitate to comics, Goldsman is looking forward to tasting some of the creative freedom offered in comics that Hollywood types can only dream about. “BIG NUMBERS is the kind of high concept story that just fires the imagination,” said Goldsman. “While staying very, very true to Alan Moore’s intent, I think you’ll agree, by the time the new version is finished, it should be called EVEN BIGGER NUMBERS. The first version was Number One, but this will definitely be Number Two.”
More info here.
We’re on a hiatus today while we deal with pressing matters, but we thought you would like this subtext-laden Wolverine blow up toy, and the ChristWire article that blows it up:
It looks like our homo supporting friends over at Marvel have created a new toy to encourage young boys to perform mouth to mouth in a non holy way to a blow up toys twiddle rompus!
We don’t know what twiddle rompus is, nor if we have ever participated in it, but we’d like to change that–FAST.
We might as well line our children up and burn them ourselves! If we make these types of devil pleasing acts ok they will all be burning in the fire lakes anyways!
We’ll be on the lookout for devil-pleasing acts all day!
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